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Opinion Israel Outreach Effort Comes to Columbia
With the Palestinians poised to make their bid for statehood at the United Nations, another diplomatic effort was taking place on Columbia University’s manicured campus five miles uptown. Hillel, the national Jewish student organization, erected an open-air tent on September 21 with the words “Talk Israel: Join the Conversation” on a blue banner on Columbia’s…
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The Schmooze Obama Makes New York Magazine Cover as ‘First Jewish President’
Barack Obama may be America’s “first Jewish president,” this week’s New York magazine cover provocatively suggests. The publication sets the phrase in quotation marks, placing it over a cover photo of Obama’s kippah-wearing head. The accompanying article — entitled “The Tsuris,” and written by staff political analyst John Heilemann — looks at at Obama’s relationship…
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The Schmooze Israeli Military Snubs Domestic Shofar Merchants
Israel’s shofar merchants consider it a low blow, but the country’s defense ministry isn’t backing down. Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported Friday that local shofar sellers are red in the face over a decision by the defense ministry to purchase 150 of the rams’ horns from suppliers in China and Morocco. Going abroad for the…
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Opinion For Israel and Turkey, Breaking Up Is Easy To Do
When Israel and Turkey first forged their now shattered alliance in the late 1990s, there was much to bring together the two countries. The odd men out in the Middle East, both were non-Arab military powers who had either strained or outright hostile relations with their neighbors, a domestic terrorism problem and a strategic vision…
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Israel News Major Jewish Groups Won’t Rally Against Statehood Bid at U.N.
Despite the furor among Jews surrounding the Palestinians’ plan to push for statehood recognition at the United Nations, the Jewish establishment has no plans to protest when the U.N. General Assembly convenes in mid-September. For mainstream Jewish groups, that is a significant shift from recent years. Moved by the threat to Israel that they see…
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Opinion A Palestinian State Even the Securocrats Accept
I don’t think I’d be going out on a limb to suggest that Israel is having a bit of a rough patch lately, what with its Cairo embassy in ruins, terrorism flaring in the south and new troubles brewing at the United Nations. I could drone on about the dangers, but I don’t need to….
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Israel News U.N. and Israel Sharply Differ on Flotilla Violence
“Overall, the [Israeli] personnel acted professionally in the face of extensive and unanticipated violence.” This is the verdict of Israel’s inquiry into the May 31, 2010, raid on the Mavi Marmara, part of the flotilla seeking to bring aid to Gaza. And this is what the international panel appointed by the United Nations had to…
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Opinion Israel felt pain of 9/11 terror attacks with New Yorkers
Michael Oren recalls that fateful day.
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