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News Tensions over Jerusalem Day march, Temple Mount clashes culminate in rocket fire from Gaza
The controversial annual flag march by Jews in Jerusalem’s Old City was canceled by the police and then reinstated against the backdrop of heightened tensions in the city between Jews and Palestinians that culminated late in the afternoon Monday with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, directed at the Jerusalem area by Hamas. At one…
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News From TikTok to Temple Mount clashes: 28 days of violence in Jerusalem
Hundreds of Palestinians were injured over the weekend as long-simmering tensions between Jews and Arabs boiled over in Jerusalem, leading to repeated clashes between Ramadan worshipers and police at one of the city’s holiest sites. At least 205 Palestinians and 17 police officers were wounded Friday as clashes erupted at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on…
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Opinion Israel’s new government won’t be perfect. But as a former Knesset leader, I know they can make progress on six key issues.
The unity government taking shape in Israel is complicated, but it is not doomed. New leadership means new opportunities to create real change. There is a chance that the new government — which includes diverse ideological groups, is younger and more liberal than previous governments, and is not committed to the grave mistakes of Netanyahu…
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Culture Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Alene doesn’t have time for pandemic hobbies
I began the interview with a question I ask almost everybody these days: “Do you have a pandemic hobby?” Eden Alene looked at me, politely confused. “What is a pandemic hobby?” “You know,” I said, thinking of all my failed sourdough starters. “A lot of people learned to do new things because they had so…
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Fast Forward Schumer affirms his faith in God during visit to family of Meron victim
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer paid a shiva call on Thursday morning to the Knoblowitz family who lost their son Pinchas Menachem in the Mount Meron tragedy last week. The 22-year-old Knoblowitz was one of 45 people, including six Americans, who died in the crush of a celebrating crowd during the Lag B’Omer festival at…
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Fast Forward Jamaal Bowman defends support of bill to regulate aid to Israel
Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York is defending his support of a bill that would regulate U.S. military assistance to Israel, a measure opposed by many mainstream Jewish and pro-Israel groups. Bowman is one of 18 Democratic House members who have co-sponsored a bill introduced by Congresswoman Betty McCollum of Minnesota that prohibits Israel from…
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News The end of the Netanyahu era? Not quite yet
You have to feel for President Reuven Rivlin, a quintessential democrat, an old school gentleman and a mensch for all seasons. He thought he’d seen it all, yet nothing prepared him to task a politician with forming a government for the seventh time in as many years. More than anyone, Rivlin knows this ain’t over…
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News ‘His voice was the sound of music:’ An American Hasid lost on Mt. Meron
Rabbi Shragi Gestetner was born to make music. He started composing when he was 12. He sold his first song at 18. His debut album, Shragee, pulsates with the joy of a man who has found his calling. The year after it came out, Tablet called Gestetner one of the “rising talents of the current…
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Opinion When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride. I see pluralism in action.
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Fast Forward ‘The most Australian name’: Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach attack, embodies a nation’s grief
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Fast Forward A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel advocate in LGBTQ spaces, is shutting down
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Yiddish פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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