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Wave of Violence Turns West Bank Supermarket From ‘Model of Coexistence’ Into Place of Fear
On a recent Sunday afternoon at a Rami Levy supermarket in the West Bank, an Israeli soldier patrolled next to a rack of toothpaste, on a two-for-one sale. Outside, Israeli and Palestinian customers walked through a new black metal detector on their way in; it was installed just an hour before. Rami Levy, the founder…
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Bernie Sanders Reaches Out to Israelis on Facebook — and Gets an Earful
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign issued a message of multicultural unity last week, posting graphics on social media that read, “Not me, us,” in 14 different languages. Facebook users generally responded positively to the posts, which in each language feature a silhouette of Sanders — fist raised — comprising smaller silhouettes of various shapes and…
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Report: For West Bank Palestinians, Often The Only Work Is at Settlement, Inc.
QIRA, West Bank, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Mohammad Arbassi, a 56-year-old father of five sons from the West Bank village of Qira, has a diploma in finance and big plans for his children, two of whom are at university. Yet despite his education and personal drive, for the past 12 years he has worked as…
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Holocaust Survivors Struggle To Prove Their Cases as Claims Conference Cracks Down
Seventy-eight-year-old Izrail Gelman received $70,000 in Holocaust restitution payments from the German government over nearly 20 years. Now, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which distributed the money, is demanding it all back. He has until March 10 to make the payment. “He has no way to pay,” said Alexander Gelman, Izrail’s brother….
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Jewish Mormons Celebrate their Dual Identity
SALT LAKE CITY (JTA) – Phyllis Miller’s experience growing up in Southern California wasn’t much different from that of many American Jews. The product of an intermarriage — her mother wasn’t Jewish but later converted — Miller’s family attended synagogue occasionally, kept the kids home from school on the High Holidays and ate matzah on…
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Major Jewish Foundation Turns to the Fold for New CEO
A major Jewish foundation recently named a veteran Jewish professional – instead of a businessman or white-shoe lawyer – its first president and CEO on Feb. 17. Barry Finestone, who started his climb up the ranks as a camp director in the 1990s, will succeed Chip Edelsberg, the Jim Joseph foundation’s first executive director, on…
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Mayor Bernie Sanders and the Chabad Menorah
(JTA) — Jews have lately bemoaned Bernie Sanders’ lack of Jewish pride — but back when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Sanders let Chabad “feel the Bern.” Or at least he fought for Chabad’s right to burn Hanukkah candles on city land. Sanders’ backing for the display of a menorah outside Burlington City Hall…
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Yeshiva U. Cedes Control of Half Its Endowment To Shed Its Einstein Liabilities
Yeshiva University will cede almost half of its $1 billion endowment to the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, as the medical college — which was formerly under its wing — becomes part of a separate, newly formed joint venture with Montefiore Health System. The scope of Y.U.’s transfer of funds to the new venture—a total of $465…
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Despite BDS Hype, Campus Anti-Israel Activity Dips by 15%
The campus movement focused on divesting, boycotting and imposing sanctions against Israel has been a major concern for the Jewish community in recent years and a driving force behind numerous initiatives and millions of dollars aimed at countering the movement. But just how effective has the BDS movement on university campuses been? A new report…
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Miami JCC Scraps ‘Troublesome’ Play About Israel
A Jewish community center theater in Miami has canceled performances of a play about Israel following complaints from some community members that its message was “inappropriate and troublesome.” In a letter Tuesday explaining the decision to “suspend performances” after four showings of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center’s Cultural Arts Theater production of “Crossing Jerusalem,”…
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Sheldon Adelson’s Still on the Sidelines: The GOP Asks Why?
One of the most prominent donors in Republican politics is in an unusual position: undecided. Sheldon Adelson, who stunned the political system in 2012 by pouring more than $100 million into that year’s presidential campaign, is still waiting on the sidelines this time around — many months after he summoned all the GOP candidates to…
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