By Nathan Jeffay
The Israeli government is trying to chip away at the monopoly that Orthodox rabbis enjoy over marriage and divorce. Is it a first step to a more pluralistic Jewish state?
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By Forward Staff
A Brooklyn mother’s crusade to keep her daughter’s beloved banana and Nutella-flavored ice cream on the menu at her local parlor fell just short.
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By Barak Ravid (Haaretz)
Secretary of State John Kerry tried to explain at a press conference at Ben-Gurion International Airport why he had been investing most of his time over the past months in a desperate attempt to renew the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
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By Reuters
The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said on Saturday his group would stay in the Syrian war “to the end of the road” and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad.Read More
By Forward Staff
A Jewish day school student got a supermodel date to his senior prom after all.
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By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the campaign of Jewish businessman Meyer Habib for a seat in the French parliament.
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By JTA
The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities said that, despite recent revisions, the Church of Scotland’s report on Israel remains “unacceptable.”
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By Yossi Verter (Haaretz)
Heading the agenda was the election of Israel’s new chief rabbis, slated for next month (the election is carried out among a large group of rabbis and public representatives). Two private bills related to this issue will soon be submitted to the Knesset.
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By Haaretz
Israeli intelligence experts, defense mavens and foreign policy gurus should be poring over President Barack Obama’s address to the National Defense University by now. Many of them, one can safely posit, won’t like what they’re reading, in the text and between the lines.
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By JTA
The man tasked with rescuing the Canadian Jewish News is no longer in his post.Read More
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