Sam Sokol
By Sam Sokol
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Fast Forward Australian PM Quashes Talk Of Recognizing Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital
(JTA) — Australia’s prime minister appeared to quash reports that he would announce his government’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday. Asked what decision the Cabinet had been reached regarding the the matter during a news conference in Adelaide, Scott Morrison replied that it was premature to discuss the issue, telling reporters that…
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The Schmooze Kirk Douglas Honored In His NY Hometown On His 102nd Birthday
(JTA) — The latest honor for Jewish actor Kirk Douglas came in the upstate New York town where he was raised on his 102nd birthday. Friend and relatives gathered in Amsterdam on Sunday to unveil a historic marker for a sign that will say that Douglas, 102, “Rose From Poverty To Appear In Over 90…
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News Meet The Lonely Ukranian Jew Fighting His Country’s New Fondness For Nazis
Eduard Dolinsky went online about a year and a half ago and saw an image that shook him to his core. A large crowd, some in Nazi uniforms, was parading in the Ukranian city of L’viv to commemorate the establishment of a militia loyal to Hitler. “Division Galicia – the heroes of Ukraine,” the marchers…
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Life Rockets Or No, Chabad’s Mitzvah Tanks Still Rolling In Israel’s South
The atmosphere was deceptively quiet in the small moshav of Netiv HaAsara, only four hundred meters north of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday afternoon when Mendy Hartman, a 45-year old Hasid from Bnei Brak, approached an armored IDF jeep and handed the soldier sitting in the driver’s seat a honey cake with a wrapper bearing…
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Life Among Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox, ‘Civics’ Takes On A Very Different Meaning
“We don’t discuss politics, gossip or slander,” declared the billboard, located on a busy thoroughfare in the ultra-orthodox suburb of Ramat Beit Shemesh. “We should distance ourselves from everything having to do with the elections as if from fire,” one cartoon boy on the billboard was portrayed saying. “My father told me that he also…
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Life The Start-Up Nation Is Dominated By Secular Male Ashkenazi Jews — But Not For Long
JERUSALEM – According to President Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem “is a microcosm of what is going on all over the region.” While that may or may not be true, the city’s varied and diverse population — comprised of Muslims and Jews, religious and secular — certainly isn’t representative of the industries that have made the start-up…
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Life Should Tel Aviv Restaurants Close For Tisha B’Av?
Should restaurants, bars and coffee houses remain open on the fast of Tisha B’Av, which marks the destruction of the Temple and other calamities throughout Jewish history? Former Tel Aviv city councilman Haim Goren, a member of the Jewish Home party, believes so. Earlier this month, he posted a video on Facebook asking local eateries…
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Life The Other Intermarriage Crisis
The seven couples sat in a circle staring at each other warily. Many of them had come to the gathering with deep reservations, but also a sense of hope that it would be the start of something better. All of them were grappling with a strong sense of being stuck between two worlds. One of…
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