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Opinion Stop Calling For Israel’s Destruction And We’ll Stop Demanding You Acknowledge It
In a recent op-ed in these pages, Yousef Munayyer, the Executive Director of pro-BDS advocacy group the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, claimed that no state, including [Israel, has a “right to exist.” He argued that asking whether Israel has a right to exist is disingenuous because, for example, no one would ask Native Americans…
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Opinion Israel’s Successful Moon Launch And Other Happy Jewish News Stories This Week
It’s said that if you shoot for the moon, you’ll land among the stars. But in Israel’s case, if you shoot for the moon, as Israeli company SpaceIL did on Thursday night, you’ll land in the pages of history and take your country’s tech reputation that much further. We are almost comfortable saying it was…
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The Schmooze Israel Aims To Send A Space Craft To The Moon Thursday Night
(JTA) — He’s spent eight years trying to land a spacecraft on the moon, but when Yonatan Winetraub stood on the launchpad this month at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, he was still in shock. “I stood right next to the rocket, and it’s pretty big,” Winetraub said in a phone interview Wednesday. “In the video, you…
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Opinion If You Called Out The Women’s March Over Farrakhan, You Better Call Out Netanyahu
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already saddled with a reputation of being willing to do or say anything to keep his job as prime minister, took a step that stretched that reputation even further. In an effort to prevent right-wing votes in Israel’s April 9 election from going to waste, he brokered a…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Israeli Moon Lander Launches Successfully
(JTA) — An Israeli spacecraft is officially on its way to the moon. The lunar lander built by SpaceIL, an Israeli organization hoping to send a craft to the moon, successfully launched aboard a SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida Thursday night. If it reaches the moon and lands successfully, it will make Israel…
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Fast Forward Two Centrist Israeli Parties Merge, Posing Threat To Netanyahu’s Reelection
A merger between two top-polling centrist parties is posing a major challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ten-year hold on the office, the Times of Israel reported. After talks that lasted through the night, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz agreed that their two parties — Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience, respectively — would merge…
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Israel News Major Jewish Groups Mum On Netanyahu’s Deal With Extremist Party
As liberal and progressive Jewish groups assailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deal to return supporters of the racist rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli Knesset, most leading American Jewish groups are keeping silent. Nine major Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America, did not respond to questions…
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Opinion Did Israel Just Lose American Jews?
A lot of ink has been spilled in efforts to explain exactly why Israel and American Jewry are drifting apart. This past December, Israeli MK Naftali Bennett put forward his own analysis: “There’s a terrible problem of assimilation and growing indifference of Jews overseas both to their Jewishness and to Israel,” he said. “That is…
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