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The State Department’s inconclusive report on the death of Palestinian American Shireen Abu Akleh shouldn’t be the end of the U.S. investigation into the journalist’s death. After examining the bullet that killed Abu Akleh’s death, U.S. Security Coordinator investigators concluded that “gunfire from IDF positions was likely responsible for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh,”…
Ben & Jerry’s filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against its parent Unilever for the international conglomerate’s intention to sell its Israeli operations to a company that plans to produce and sell the ice cream brand in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Ben & Jerry’s asserts in the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in…
Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, has found the legal maneuver to overcome the thorny legal situation the ice cream company’s board put them in a year ago with an announcement that they would end the sale of their ice cream in the West Bank. Unilever will sell the Israeli rights to Avi…
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) pushed back Thursday against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ criticism of their multi-million dollar spending in the Democratic congressional primaries against progressive candidates. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont and a progressive firebrand, had declared “war” in May on the pro-Israel lobby for intervening in high stakes primaries that resulted…
Her great-grandfather was Israel’s second prime minister, but Inbal Sharett-Singer decided she belonged not in politics, but on the pulpit. On July 1, Sharett-Singer takes over as the senior cantor at Temple Israel in Minneapolis, which has more than 2,000 families. She will be the synagogue’s second senior cantor in its more than 140-year history. She’s…
The campaign of Jerry Nadler has, in recent weeks, moved to invoke his Jewish faith as a key theme to rally his base in a tough reelection bid. This year’s redistricting has pitted the incumbent Democrat against another veteran colleague, Carolyn Maloney, in the Aug. 23 primary for the redrawn 12th District, which stretches from…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a live speech from Kyiv on Thursday. Wearing his signature olive-green military-issue T-shirt, Zelenskyy, who has been hailed as a contemporary Jewish hero and scrappy, modern-day Maccabee, appealed to Ukraine and Israel’s shared history, values and future. He noted that his office…
Leaders of the international movement to boycott Israel this week disavowed the Mapping Project, a database listing hundreds of entities, including dozens of Jewish ones, deemed complicit in the “colonization of Palestine.” They took issue with the anonymous mappers’ approach, saying the map unintentionally invited backlash and could damage pro-Palestinian activism. Mahmoud Nawajja, general coordinator…
