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[[Sondra Oster Baras]] is the Vice-President of [[Christian Friends of Israeli Communities]] (CFOIC) a Christian Zionist organisation that supports illegal settlements in the occupied territories. Born in Ohio in the United States she moved to the West Bank in 1995.<ref name ="President 'should">Howard Jones, 'President 'should butt out'', ''The Border Mail'', 7 February 2013</ref>She lives in the illegal Israeli settlement Karnei Shomron in the occupied West Bank.<ref name ="President 'should">Howard Jones, 'President 'should butt out'', ''The Border Mail'', 7 February 2013</ref>   
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[[Sondra Oster Baras]] is the Vice-President of [[Christian Friends of Israeli Communities]] (CFOIC) a Christian Zionist organisation that supports illegal settlements in the occupied territories. Born in Ohio in the United States she moved to the West Bank in 1995.<ref name ="President 'should">Howard Jones, 'President 'should butt out'', ''The Border Mail'', 7 February 2013</ref>She lives in the illegal Israeli settlement Karnei Shomron in the occupied West Bank.<ref name ="President 'should">Howard Jones, 'President 'should butt out', ''The Border Mail'', 7 February 2013</ref>   
  
 
The CFOIC website provides the following biography:
 
The CFOIC website provides the following biography:

Revision as of 16:37, 21 May 2015

Sondra Oster Baras is the Vice-President of Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC) a Christian Zionist organisation that supports illegal settlements in the occupied territories. Born in Ohio in the United States she moved to the West Bank in 1995.[1]She lives in the illegal Israeli settlement Karnei Shomron in the occupied West Bank.[1]

The CFOIC website provides the following biography:

Sondra Oster Baras was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio in an Orthodox Jewish home. She was educated at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, a religious all-day school sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish community. Upon graduation from high school, Sondra studied religious studies at the Jerusalem College for Women in Israel. She completed her B.A. in history and English at Barnard College in New York. She obtained her J.D. at Columbia University’s School of Law.
In 1984, after practicing law in New York for a short time, Sondra moved to Israel. Sondra continued her legal career in Israel, after being accepted to the Israeli bar.
In 1985, the Baras’ joined Neve Aliza, a group of North American Orthodox Jews that were building a new neighborhood in the small Samarian town of Karnei Shomron. Sondra soon became an active member of the governing board of the group and moved into the new neighborhood in 1987. Shortly thereafter, the first Intifada began, and Ms. Baras was drawn into activities advocating for the settlement movement. Since then, Baras has been an active spokesperson for the communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
Baras maintained contact with CFOIC Heartland since its inception in 1996, and in 1998, she opened the Israel office in an effort to enhance the organization’s activities in support of the communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Since then, Sondra has been the director of the Israel office, coordinating much of CFOIC Heartland’s community support programs world-wide...
Sondra Oster Baras currently resides in Karnei Shomron, together with her husband Edward, a computer programmer, and their five children.[2]

She is the coauthor of a book entitled 'Shabbat Shalom: Insights on the Weekly Torah Portion From the Heart of Biblical Israel'.[3]

Contact

email: sondra@cfoic.com

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbaras

blog: http://cfoic.blogspot.co.uk/

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Howard Jones, 'President 'should butt out, The Border Mail, 7 February 2013 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "President 'should" defined multiple times with different content
  2. CFOIC Website Sondra Oster Baras. Accessed 26 April 2015.
  3. Amazon.com Shabbat Shalom: Insights on the Weekly Torah Portion From the Heart of Biblical Israel. Accessed 28 April 2015.