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Israel News Yitzhak Shamir, ‘True Zealot’ for Israel
Of all the Israelis that have led Israel since its inception in 1948, Yitzhak Shamir is the only one who was a true zealot. A modest and moderate man with infinite self-control, he was nonetheless a fanatic devotee of his vision of the Jewish people and the Greater Land of Israel. The end, in his…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Shamir Dies at 96
Yizhak Shamir, the seventh prime minister of Israel, died Saturday at the age of 96. Shamir, who was born in 1915 in Ruzhany, served in Israel’s Shin Bet, and later on as Speaker of the Knesset as part of the Likud and Israel’s Foreign Minister before succeeding Menachem Begin as Prime Minister in 1983. In…
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Israel News Deported Africans Face Struggle at Home
For Benjamin Churi Kariyam, it’s no secret why he’s languishing in a crumbling transit camp outside the South Sudanese capital of Juba instead of working in Tel Aviv. Like scores of other African immigrants just deported, Kariyam blames what he calls the racism of Israeli government for his plight. “This is the reason why we…
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Israel News Document Trove Raises Abuse Questions
A trove of newly-released documents has raised questions about the Brooklyn District Attorney’s handling of one of the most notorious Orthodox sex abuse cases, the New York Times has reported. The documents relate to the case of Avrohom Mondrowitz, an alleged sex abuser who fled New York in 1984 to avoid prosecution, eventually winding up…
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News Caterpillar Woes, Israel in New York Primaries
In this week?s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman, opinion editor Gal Beckerman and Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff about the recent announcement that TIAA-CREF, which manages pensions and retirement funds, has sold $72 million worth of stock in the construction equipment firm Caterpillar which has been connected to Palestinian housing demolitions….
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Israel News Israel’s Health Care Outpaces U.S.
The heated debate over health care reform, reignited by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s plan, has drawn attention, once again, to the issue of government involvement in health care management and the effectiveness of a system based on universal coverage. For Israel, this is a Rubicon crossed long ago. Despite the…
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Opinion Obama Drops In on Mofaz
President Obama seems to be perfecting the art of drop-in diplomacy, at least when it comes to Jewish and Israeli leaders. Obama, in recent weeks, took the liberty of dropping into the meetings White House officials held with Jewish Conservative and Orthodox leaders. Then last Thursday he popped into a meeting National Security Adviser Tom…
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Opinion American Jews Should Get Under the Tent
In early June, more than 10,000 Israelis took to the streets on a Saturday night chanting “Bring back hope and justice,” in a resurgence of 2011’s protests against income inequality, shrinking social programs and the crisis of politicians driven more by self-preservation than by the needs of the country’s citizens. “We don’t want a government…
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