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Opinion Pittsburgh Happened In America 2018 — Not Berlin 1938 Or Israel
The terrorist attack that killed 11 Jews in Sabbath prayer on October 27 was the worst act of anti-Semitism in America, ever. But it was hardly the first time Jews have been targeted for injury and death within the shores of a nation that is supposed to offer us refuge and acceptance. While violent anti-Semitism…
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Opinion The Israeli Response To The Pittsburgh Massacre Has Been A Disaster
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack at the Tree of Life shul in Pittsburgh last Shabbat, many Israelis weighed in with messages for American Jews. The responses to the attack ranged from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sympathetic condolences to Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau’s patronizing insults. But Zionist Union chief Avi Gabbay’s contribution –…
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Israel News Synagogue Bloodbath Exposes Huge Rift With Israelis Over Trump
PITTSBURGH – On Sunday night, two letters addressing the terror attack against the Jewish community in Pittsburgh were made public. The letters – one written by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the other by a small group of Jewish activists in Pittsburgh – provided useful glimpses into how Saturday’s tragedy at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue…
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Fast Forward Naftali Bennett Seeks To Tie Synagogue Shooting To Palestinians
Naftali Bennett, Israel’s far right wing Minister of Diaspora Affairs, drew a parallel on Sunday evening between the gunman who massacred 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat morning services and Hamas militants. Addressing a memorial vigil sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Naftali Bennett said: “From Sderot to Pittsburgh, the hand…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinian Boys Killed By Israel On Gaza Border
Three Palestinian boys were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip frontier on Sunday, medical officials in the Hamas-run enclave said, while Israel said it had hit suspected militants trying to blow up part of a border fence. The Gaza Health Ministry said two of the dead were aged 13 and one…
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Fast Forward Israel Chief Rabbi Won’t Call Pittsburgh Shooting Site ‘Synagogue’ — Because It’s Not Orthodox
Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi came under fire on Sunday for refusing to acknowledge in a newspaper interview that the massacre in Pittsburgh was carried out in a synagogue. The country’s ultra-Orthodox newspapers, in reporting on the event, have also refused to acknowledge that it took place in a Jewish house of prayer because Tree of…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Cabinet Honors Victims Of Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Israel’s cabinet stood for a moment’s silence on Sunday to honor the victims of a synagogue shooting that killed at least 11 worshippers in Pittsburgh. “The entire nation of Israel mourns with the families of the murdered in the horrendous massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at…
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Opinion Israelis Are Divided Over Whether They Are ‘Jewish’ Or ‘Israeli.’
By now it’s accepted that the American Jewish community and Israel are in crisis mode. Once bound by the tightest of familial bonds, the two communities have grown ever apart, leading to much hand-wringing. The cause of the crisis is generally chalked up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies – his embrace of the…
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