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  What Olmert’s Conviction Means for Peace

  Getty Images The Israeli legal system just got its teeth back. Much has been written about the conviction this week of Israel’s Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a bribery trial. The reverberations of the ruling are felt far and wide. In the political sphere, this seems to be the end of the dream which…

  By Nathan Jeffay

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  Jerusalem Post’s Absurd Visa Waiver Plea

  Getty Images The Jerusalem Post’s latest editorial wades into the Israel-U.S. debate over travel visas — and comes to some absurd conclusions. The government of Israel has been trying for a while to reach an agreement with the American authorities allowing Israeli tourists to visit the U.S. for a short time without a visa. The…

  By Anna Momigliano Apr 2, 2014 | 3 min read
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  5 Myths About Jonathan Pollard Case

  The Jonathan Pollard matter just won’t go away — and for good reason. The most recent flurry of interest surrounding the case was fueled this week by the news that the White House might be moved, at long last, to release Pollard from prison. But the problem with the case — however troubling the case…

  By Jerome Chanes Apr 2, 2014 | 4 min read

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  Don’t Pardon Jonathan Pollard

  It’s not clear whether the idea was leaked by the Obama administration or advanced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the very suggestion that convicted spy Jonathan J. Pollard may be released from his North Carolina prison as part of an effort to resuscitate the flailing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has accomplished something rare in Middle…

  Apr 2, 2014 | 4 min read
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  Jon Stewart Twits ‘Zionist Billionaire’ Adelson. Ouch

  Jon Stewart took on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s self-commissioned and miraculously self-exonerating investigative report into the Bridgegate scandal last night, and led from there into a viciously funny takedown of Christie’s apology to Sheldon Adelson for referring to the territories as “occupied” during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition. In Part 2 (after…

  By J.J. Goldberg Apr 1, 2014 | < 1 min read
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  Pollard Chatter Means Peace Talks Are Serious

  Protestors call for Jonathan Pollard to be released from prison. / Getty Images Jonathan Pollard — the man who stole huge amounts of intelligence and gave it to Israel and has been sitting in an American prison for 30 years — has become a chip to be traded in order keep Israeli-Palestinian talks going. Pollard…

  By Brent E. Sasley Apr 1, 2014 | 3 min read
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  POLL: How Would You Spend Jewish Billions?

  How should Jewish donor dollars get spent? Today, the largest share of Jewish donor dollars goes to Israel-related charities, as the Forward reported last week in the first part of our series on Jewish charity finances. (Part two of the series, published today, is here.) Are we spending too much on Israel? Or maybe too…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Apr 1, 2014 | 2 min read
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  GOP House Bill Tells Feds To Cut Climate Research

  Today, Tuesday, April 1, a day after the United Nations released its latest and most disturbing climate change report (text), the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill ordering the federal government’s top weather and climate research organization to spend more time on forecasting weather and storms and less studying…

  By J.J. Goldberg Apr 1, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Romemu Bans ‘Email Chametz’ on Passover

  We’ve all felt it. That ever-present desire — compulsion, really — to check and then recheck our email. Just one more hit of the refresh button. Just one more scroll. Just one more reply-all. Just one more delete. We love it. And we hate it. Most of the year, we bemoan but ultimately accept the…

  By Sigal Samuel Mar 31, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Failing To Capture the Vibrancy of British Jewish Life

  A number of times over the last few years, I’ve had the same, mildly disconcerting, conversation. I’m a pretty involved in the UK Jewish community, spending a big chunk of my life on the merry-go-round of Jewish events. The community also forms of big part of my social life and after 42 years of involvement…

  By Keith Kahn-Harris Mar 31, 2014 | 4 min read
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  British Jews Go the Way of American Jews

  First, the good news. The most recent census revealed that, for the first time in decades, the decline in Britain’s Jewish population has been arrested. In 2011, 263,346 chose to identify themselves as Jewish by religion in England and Wales, compared to 259,927 in 2001. Beneath the headline figure, however, all it not as it…

  By Liam Hoare Mar 31, 2014 | 4 min read