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Israel News Despite progressive pressure, no major changes in Democrats’ Israel platform
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Centrists on the platform-writing committee of the Democratic National Committee overrode progressives who wanted the platform to condemn Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The 2020 platform only alludes to the occupation, preserves Israel’s defense aid and rejects the movement to boycott Israel. But it does warn against annexation, the move that…
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News Rabbi who said Jews not ‘indigenous’ to Israel defended in open letter
After an assistant rabbi at a high-profile New York synagogue was called out by his own senior rabbi in public for tweeting that Jews do not count as indigenous people, hundreds of people signed an open letter in support of the junior rabbi’s right to express his views. On July 8, Rabbi Andrue “Andy” Kahn…
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Israel News Inspired by Black Lives Matter, Israelis protest police brutality
Israeli police were caught on camera earlier this month brutally beating 24-year old David Biton over a face mask. In a jerky, low-resolution cellphone video shared widely over the internet, Biton, who had been stopped for failing to adhere to the country’s social distancing regulations, could be seen laying on the ground crying out in…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu admits Israel reopened ‘too soon’ after surge of COVID diagnoses
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that the reopening of the economy amid the coronavirus occurred “too soon” Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, Netanyahu took responsibility for the decision to reopen the country a month ago after severe early restrictions were put in place to halt its spread. “We…
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News ‘My conscience is clean;” Dani Dayan speaks about the end of his term
Comments poured in during Wednesday’s “exit interview” with Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General for New York, moderated by Jodi Rudoren and Andrew Silow-Carroll, editors-in-chief of the Forward and The Jewish Week respectively. Dayan’s term is ending during a particularly tense moment in the Israeli-American relationship, and the audience’s chat box and submissions to the Q&A…
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News Are Jews ‘indigenous’ to Israel? One rabbi said ‘no’ on Twitter – and went viral.
A New York rabbi tweeted on Wednesday that Jews cannot be considered indigenous in any land, prompting a debate on Twitter over the meaning of indigenous identity and whether Jews can claim it. His tweet hit a nerve among Jews, some of whom tie their connection to Israel to extensive historical evidence of continuous Jewish…
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Israel News Israel employs controversial tracking tool to fight surging COVID
A 27-year-old Pilates instructor was walking home from the beach in Jaffa on Saturday afternoon when she got an alarming text message. According to “an epidemiological investigation,” it said, she had been in contact with a Covid-positive person on the previous Saturday between 4 and 5 p,m., and now was “obligated to go into isolation…
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Fast Forward Secular Jews are starting to understand the Haredi Orthodox — Thanks to Israeli television
NEW YORK (JTA) — At 4 a.m., Israeli rocker Aviv Gefen was still crying, head in hands, in the empty Haifa-area amphitheater where he had performed the previous late May evening. Staff members urged him to go home. In a televised interview days later, the popular performer described what had happened. Due to the COVID-19 crisis,…
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