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Opinion Charles Bronfman: On Israel’s Missing Religious Tolerance
The following is a commencement address given at the Hebrew Union College. President Pankin, Chairman Berger, Chancellor Emeritus Ellenson, Chairman Messinger, Rabbi Davidson, Chairman Streiker, Deans, Faculty, family, friends, and most importantly, graduates: I am grateful for your gracious invitation and am honored to be addressing you today. With your permission, allow me to recall…
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Food Roseanne Barr Wants To Cook For Natalie Portman — And Set Her Straight On Israel
Roseanne Barr, the controversial comedy actress currently starring in the Trump-supporting revival of ‘Roseanne’, appeared at the Jerusalem Post Conference on Sunday in New York. According to the Jerusalem Post, Barr mentioned that if she got a chance to sit down with Natalie Portman, who recently snubbed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in declining the Genesis…
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Fast Forward Gazan Kite Carrying Firebomb Ignites Forest, Fields In Southern Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A fire burned for hours in a southern Israel forest after a kite carrying a firebomb crossed the border from Gaza. Ten teams of firefighters were called to the Be’eri Forest near Kibbutz Be’eri on Wednesday afternoon to bring the fire sparked by the incendiary kite under control. The fire burned dozens…
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Fast Forward New Israeli Law Allows Netanyahu And Lieberman To Declare War
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Parliament passed a law that would allow the country’s prime minister and defense minister to declare war. The law passed Monday evening, an amendment to the country’s Basic Law, transfers authority from the government to the smaller Security Cabinet to launch military operations and declare war. It passed by a vote…
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Community Israel’s High-Tech Industry Must Learn From Its Hospitals
Jews and Arabs in Israel inhabit parallel worlds in almost every aspect of life. We reside in separate neighborhoods and towns, we have separate education systems, and for many of us, even our workplaces are homogeneous. But there are some areas in which things are different. In the public health system, for example, a saner…
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Letters A Letter From Pew Research On Our Israel Polling
Laura E. Adkins discusses in her April 29 opinion piece (Almost) Everything You Knew About The Polls And Israel Is Wrong recent Pew Research Center and Gallup findings that examine public opinion towards Israel and the Palestinians. Ms. Adkins thoughtfully examines several possible reasons, including differences in question wording, for why the two surveys got…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cities Ban Holiday Bonfires Due To Heat Wave
(JTA) — Municipalities throughout Israel are heeding officials’ calls to ban Lag b’Omer bonfires because of dangerous weather conditions days after 10 Israeli teens died in flash floods during a hike despite warnings of such danger. The hot and dry conditions, with winds, have blanketed the country for two days. Officials are concerned that the…
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Fast Forward Israeli School Head Quits Over Flash Flood Deaths
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of a pre-army academy has resigned a week after 10 teens died in a flash flood during a school-sponsored hike. Yuval Kahan, the principal of the Bnei Zion pre-military academy, released a statement on Wednesday, in which he said he was “torn and broken” over the deaths of the entering…
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