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Opinion What Jews Can Learn From Rwandans
A woman consoles a fellow Rwandan at a genocide commemoration ceremony / Getty Images I am no Shmuley Boteach, God knows. But I have recently learned from the Forward that Boteach and I have one thing in common – we are both rabbis who have visited Rwanda. This February, on the eve of Rwanda’s commemoration…
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Opinion 2 Women Put a Darfuri Survivor Through College
Guy Adam In the fall of 2010, I had recently arrived in Tel Aviv and had started my New Israel Fund Fellowship at ASSAF, a humanitarian aid organization helping asylum seekers and refugees in Israel. I met Guy around then at the ASSAF offices. He spoke English, so I explained to him that I was…
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News My Race Through Walls in Palestine Marathon
“Getting out of Jerusalem isn’t tough,” said Tiviet Nguyen, the Vietnamese Israeli who sat behind me on the crowded bus full of Palestinian men. “The challenge is getting back in. But there’s a whole industry of taxis taking Israelis back from the West Bank. We’ll be fine.” Like me, Nguyen and her husband, Moshe Saraf,…
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Food Cooking to Heal — On Both Sides of Green Line
From left: Bushra Awad and Robi Damelin, two of the 50 women who took part in the project. Photo by Dan Peretz (Haaretz) — “This is Subriya,” says Robi Damelin, as she begins introducing the people sitting around the table. “She lives in Nablus, and is one of the best cooks in the group. The…
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Fast Forward Supreme Court Agrees To Take On Jerusalem Passport Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh the constitutionality of a law that was designed to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem – the historic holy city claimed by Israelis and Palestinians – to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports. The case concerns a long-standing U.S. foreign policy that the president…
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Fast Forward Did Israel Fire Grenades in Temple Mount Mosque?
The most senior Islamic cleric in Jerusalem said on Sunday Israeli police hurled stun grenades into al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, to quell the latest in a string of Palestinian protests at the politically sensitive holy site. Israeli police denied the allegation, saying officers threw the non-lethal devices, which emit a loud noise, on…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back After 7 Gaza Rockets Mar Passover
Five rockets fired from the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel during the Jewish Passover holiday on Monday morning, wounding no one, the Israeli army said. Military officials said they had not responded to the salvo. But residents of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza said an Israeli helicopter opened fire there, though it was…
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Opinion Does Israel Advocacy Belong on British Campuses?
Young British Jews stake out a liberal stance on Israel. / YouTube American and British Jewish communal institutions alike are presently grappling with the question of what to do with the “evil son” — he who, in the words of the Passover Haggadah, “by divorcing himself from the community…denies our very essence.” In the United…
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