Hody Nemes
By Hody Nemes
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Israel News At AIPAC, Two Energy Entrepreneurs Debate How To Power Israel’s Future
Israel faces the prospect of freeing itself from dependence on foreign oil in the near future, with potentially transformative impact on the country’s economic and political future, two experts agreed Sunday during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington. But Yosef Abramowitz and Harold Vinegar, two entrepreneurs seeking to upend Israel’s energy future,…
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Israel News Feud Over Israel Erupts at Jewish Institutions
A senior editor of The New Republic is invited, disinvited and — after protests — re-invited to discuss his widely reviewed new book on U.S. policy toward Israel at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. A renowned literature and philosophy professor is forced to withdraw from giving a presentation on Franz Kafka, one of her…
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News Anne Heyman’s Son Gets Poignant Welcome at Rwanda School
A groundbreaking Rwandan school for genocide orphans has welcomed the son of founder Anne Heyman with open arms — just three weeks after the Jewish philanthropist was killed in a tragic horse-riding accident in Florida. Jonathan Merrin, 19, arrived at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village this week as part of a month-long service trip with other…
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Fast Forward Ramaz Petition on Rashid Khalidi Ban Grows to 150 Signatures
Students at Ramaz are protesting the school’s decision to prohibit a talk by Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia University professor who has been fiercely critical of Israel. More than 100 students have signed an online petition calling on Paul Shaviv, the head of school at the Modern Orthodox institution in Manhattan, to allow Khalidi to speak….
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Fast Forward Berkeley Hillel Urged To Go ‘Open’ on Israel by Alumni
Alumni of UC Berkeley have written an open letter urging Berkeley Hillel to become the latest campus group to join the Open Hillel movement and reject the umbrella group’s pro-Israel guidelines. The Open Hillel movement supported by the alumni describes itself as “a student-run campaign to encourage inclusivity and open discourse at campus Hillels.” Open…
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Israel News Vassar Jewish Students Break With Hillel on Israel
The Vassar Jewish Union has declared itself an “Open Hillel,” becoming the second organization to break from Hillel International over the parent group’s pro-Israel guidelines. “We believe that Hillel International’s goal to ‘inspire every Jewish college student to develop a meaningful and enduring relationship to Israel’ does not represent the diverse opinions of young American…
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News Postnup Parties Get Happily Married Orthodox Couples To Plan for Divorce
Bobby and Chelle Medow are happily married — and have been for almost 50 years. Yet one Sunday evening in January, the St. Louis couple made contingency plans for a divorce. And 31 other Orthodox married couples joined them. They are part of a small but budding movement that is being promoted by some Orthodox…
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Israel News Bill Targeting Israel Boycott Bounces Back in New York State — and Nationally
Just days after a coalition of unions, civil libertarians and academic groups cheered its demise, a bill targeting academic boycotts of Israel has returned to New York’s state legislature — and similar measures are now popping up in other statehouses and the U.S. Congress. The New York bill, which passed the State Senate January 28,…
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