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Why Israeli Gays Opt For
U.S. Surrogate Births

BY : Evan Pondel

Despite Israel's reputation as a world leader in reproductive technology, surrogacy is illegal for same-sex couples, forcing many to seek costly alternatives abroad.

READ MORE / Global Post

Checkpoint: Living As An Outsider In A Jewish State

BY : J.David & Tara Graham

MULTIMEDIA: Seven hundred checkpoints dot the state of Israel to keep one population in and the other out. But what about the folks who fall in between? These are their faces. Read on for their stories.

READ MORE / Trans-Missions

Digging The Past, Building The Future

BY : Kim Daniels & Meghan McCarty

VIDEO: Some Jewish Israelis consider the City of David, a site revealing the 3,000-year-old history of their culture, one of the most important archeological digs in Israel. But many of the current residents - mostly Arab Israelis - say the expansion of the dig threatens their neighborhood.

READ MORE / Neon Tommy

Professor Teaches Peace, Two Pages At A Time

BY : Sarah Grooters

Eyal Naveh, a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, is collaborating with Palestinian and Israeli historians to write the first dual-history textbook. The book will cover past events by presenting each side's account in a side-by-side, comparative format.

READ MORE / Religion News Service

About The Project

In March 2010, graduate students in a USC Annenberg course on coverage of religion, politics and gender traveled to Israel and Palestine for ten days of immersion journalism. The group met with religious, political and human rights activists as well as educators, legislators, refugees, settlers, and media commentators to explore the ways in which the ongoing regional conflict affects on the ground attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.

The class filed breaking news, news features and blogs during the trip and wrote indepth articles after they returned. Their work was posted and published in newspapers and online news sites, all of which you can read here.

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Additional Stories

CITY ON A HILL: CAN THE U.S. PROVIDE A MODEL FOR ISRAEL?
/ The Huffington Post

A TENUOUS COEXISTENCE IN JAFFA
/ 89.3 KPCC

HOLY LAND ZOO IS DOING NOAH PROUD
/ Houston Chronicle

ISRAEL'S FIRST WOMAN RABBI REFLECTS ON PROGRESS
/ Neon Tommy

A WAR OVER WATER DRIES UP GOOD WILL BETWEEN JEWS, ARABS
/ The Huffington Post

WOMEN OF THE WALL CHALLENGE ISRAELI LAWS
/ 89.3 KPCC

STUDENTS LOSE TIME AND PATIENCE AT ISRAELI CHECKPOINTS
/ Neon Tommy

READ MORE / Published Work