Dina Kraft (Haaretz)
By Dina Kraft (Haaretz)
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Israel News For Young Jews, Natalie Portman Marks ‘Cathartic’ Moment In Israel Fight
For Andrew Goldblatt, a junior at Tufts University, Natalie Portman’s decision not to attend an awards ceremony to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies signals a potential turning point in the discourse on Israel for young American Jews. “It certainly feels like a new moment for such a prominent and proud Israeli to take the…
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Israel News Inspired By Anne Frank, Israeli Rabbis To Hide African Immigrants Facing Deportation
A group of Israeli rabbis, including the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, cited Anne Frank as inspiration for a program calling on Israelis to hide African asylum seekers facing forced expulsion from Israel in their homes. The Anne Frank Home Sanctuary movement hopes to assist the near 40,000 African asylum seekers predominately from Eritrea and…
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News Ezra Schwartz Recalled for Big Heart and Love of Israel
At Camp Yavneh in the woods of New Hampshire they were known as the “Ezras” – Ezra Schwartz and Ezra Weener, close friends who shared the same height and name and spent summers together playing benign practical jokes and sharing a laugh. By last summer, the pair who had been bunkmates since they were nine-years-old…
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