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Father of Jewish Arson Suspect Claims Son Only Confessed Due to Israeli Torture
(JTA) – The father of Elisha Odess, the American-Israeli Jewish teen held by Israel’s internal security service, says his son is innocent and that he confessed to terrorism under torture. “We are sure he didn’t commit this crime,” Rabbi Moshe Odess told JTA in a telephone interview. “When they put him through the most aggressive…
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Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Is Burning — Can He Put Out the Flames?
At a recent meeting with leaders of Chicago’s faith community, Chicago’s first Jewish mayor, Rahm Emanuel, admitted that mistakes were made in how city government handled the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. And then, the mayor stopped talking and listened. “My stock in the mayor went up” as a result, said Rabbi Capers Funnye…
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Good Will and Peace Towards Men Elusive This Year in Nazareth
In the days preceding Christmas, the well-stocked markets of the town cited by the Christian Bible as Jesus’ hometown were uncharacteristically silent. Few foreign pilgrims roamed the streets adjoining Nazareth’s towering white landmark church, the Basilica of the Annunciation, where Christians believe the angel Gabriel visited the Virgin Mary with the message that she was…
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Lawyer for American ‘Torture’ Teen Held in Firebombing Turns to Israel Justice Minister
Israel’s minister of justice met last week with the mother of an Israeli-American teen held in isolation by Israeli security authorities amid a terrorism investigation, the teen’s attorney told the Forward. The highly unusual meeting with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, was attended by Adi Kedar, a lawyer…
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Why Russian Jews Love Their (Don’t Call Them Christmas) Trees
(JTA) — Every December Elana Snitman’s family gathers at her home, where they decorate a fake pine tree with ornaments, placing gifts underneath to exchange. After gathering for a dinner of chicken, eggplant and beet-and-potato salad, they sing a traditional song about the festive tree and the coming of winter. It’s a sacred tradition for…
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Family Claims American Teen Held as Jewish Extremist Is Being Tortured by Israel
Israeli security authorities are holding a 17-year-old American Jewish citizen named Elisha Odess in seclusion, where his family alleges he’s been interrogated using harsh methods that amount to torture, amid a crackdown on Jewish extremists. Odess, who was born in Israel and holds dual Israeli citizenship, “has been abused so severely that he tried committing…
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Sheldon Adelson’s Jewish Media Secret Revealed
Conservative billionaire is the main funder of the Jewish News Syndicate, a right-leaning wire service
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New Poll Reveals Evangelical Christians Fuel Republican Support For Israel
A new poll has revealed a powerful force behind partisan divides in public opinion on Israel: the Evangelical right. It’s generally assumed to be a political fact that Republican voters and candidates are more unilaterally supportive of Israel than their Democratic counterparts. But the poll, released by Dr. Shibley Telhami, a non-resident Senior Fellow at…
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Can Jews Back #BlackLivesMatter and Be Pro-Israel?
In less than three minutes, flanked by President Obama and Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, Rabbi Susan Talve distilled the sprawling interests of American Jewish liberals into a passionate manifesto while leading a White House Hanukkah menorah lighting before a bevy of communal leaders. Anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, gun control, nuclear waste, Middle East peace,…
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Clinton, Sanders Clash Over Economy, ISIS; Lash GOP’s Trump in Dem Debate
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton backed elements of President Barack Obama’s strategy to fight Islamic State militants in a debate on Saturday in which she clashed with top rival Bernie Sanders over national security and the economy. Clinton came under fire from Republicans even before the debate was over for optimistically saying “we now finally…
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New York Yeshivas Get City Funds for Guards — at Cost of $19M
Government funded sentries will soon be guarding nonpublic schools in New York’s five boroughs, thanks to a major victory won by Orthodox Jewish advocates after a year of tough political defeats. A security guard bill passed by New York’s city council in early December is the first in the country to guarantee religious schools city…
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