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Jerusalem Pride Organizer: ‘It Was Horrible’
“I felt like he was looking right at me. I could see his eyes. It was horrible.” That’s what Tom Canning, Director of Development at the Jerusalem Open House and one of the organizers of the Jerusalem Pride March, saw last Thursday on King George Street in Jerusalem. “He” was Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed seven…
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Revisiting the Gaza Withdrawal, 10 Years Later
This year the Jewish fast day Tisha B’Av had special resonance for Israelis on the nationalist right: It marked 10 years since the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. On the Jewish calendar, the so-called disengagement was carried out the day after Tisha B’Av, on August 15, 2005….
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Druze Split Over Grisly Ambulance Attack in Golan Heights
In the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, Druze attorney Kifah Johary debated with himself over this week’s killing of a wounded Syrian man en route to an Israeli hospital. Blood still stained a parking lot and shards of glass littered the asphalt outside an Israeli settlement where enraged Druze villagers allegedly pulled the man…
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Orange CEO Set to Arrive in Israel
Orange telecom CEO Stephane Richard was set to arrive in Israel to “clarify the misunderstanding” over his recent remarks about Israel. Richard was scheduled to begin a two-day visit on Thursday, according to the French news agency AFP, citing the company. The visit comes in the wake of statements last week by Richard in Cairo…
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Secret Sheldon Adelson Summit Raises up to $50M for Strident Anti-BDS Push
Pro-Israel activists headed home from Las Vegas last weekend resting easy that raising money to fight boycott and sanction campaigns on campus just got a lot easier. Although checks have yet to be written, deep-pocketed donors like summit organizer Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban pledged tens of millions to their cause. “You work together and…
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Hiking the Path of Abraham Through Unseen Corners of West Bank
Bani Naim is a Palestinian village straight out of the Bible. Tradition has it that the beige hilltop hamlet is the site from which Abraham watched the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is also supposedly the resting place of Lot, Abraham’s nephew in the Book of Genesis. On my hiking trip to the village…
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Students for Justice in Palestine Builds Support With In-Your-Face Push
For Jewish student groups, the increasingly contentious campus fight on behalf of Israel is one that takes place at established, centralized institutions like Hillel, with support and tutelage from deep-pocketed national groups. Its preferred mode of operation consists, for the most part, of friendly public information campaigns, earnest seminars and panel discussions, and welcoming luncheons…
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Jerusalem Day Only Underlines Divisions in Holy City
Damascus Gate is one of the liveliest parts of Jerusalem’s Old City, with a sneaker bazaar, a vegetable market and a street food cart vending cups of hot, seasoned corn. But the shopping corridor was empty of Palestinian shoppers and merchants, the storefronts bolted shut, on Sunday afternoon, normally a business day in the Middle…
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Introducing Birthright for Evangelical Christians
Conservative Jewish funders and Christian donors of Hobby Lobby fame have joined forces to launch a Christian Birthright trip, modeled after the successful program that has taken thousands of Jewish young adults to Israel for the past 16 years. Covenant Journey, a subsidized evangelical 11-day trip to Israel that was officially announced May 8, will…
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Birthright Paves Path to BDS for Some Participants
Sam Sussman’s tour of Masada started in a pretty standard way. It happened three years ago as part of the Taglit-Birthright program, which offers young Jews free 10-day trips to Israel. At Masada, 50 American students were on hand. Sussman, a 24-year-old New Yorker, climbed to the top of the plateau and expected the requisite…
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Ultra-Orthodox Celebrate Rollback of Israel Draft Law
At 21 years old, Yaakov Liwer is eligible to join the Israeli military. But instead, the tall redhead spends his days studying at a yeshiva in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Geula neighborhood. “I wanted to go [to the Israeli Defense Forces],” he explained. “I feel a connection. But Halacha says that people that learn are not allowed…
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