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Fast Forward Israel Appalled Over Poland Effort To Criminalize The Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. “The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it” Netanyahu said in a…
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Community Mike Pence Gave The Best Pro-Israel Speech Ever
In his historic speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Vice-President Mike Pence reaffirmed American recognition that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, described the Jewish people’s 3,000-year-old unbreakable bond with Jerusalem, stated that the US will transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, thereby having chosen “fact over fiction,” called upon Mahmoud Abbas’…
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Opinion At Davos, Trump Turns Middle East Peace From A Promise Into A Fantasy
There was never going to be an “ultimate deal” between Israelis and Palestinians in the current environment. But on Thursday in Davos, President Donald Trump made it into even more of a fantasy when he brought up Jerusalem. “We took Jerusalem off the table, so we don’t have to talk about it anymore,” he said….
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Community Caitlyn Jenner Is A Champion For Israel — And Jewish Values
The foremost goal of Israel’s enemies is to defame, delegitimize, and destroy the Jewish state. They seek to make Israel hated by the world with false accusations of human-rights abuses when precisely the opposite is true. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the only country with full religious and press freedoms…
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Fast Forward Fossil Found In Israel Suggests Human Left Africa Earlier Than We Thought
(JTA) — A fossil found in Israel indicates modern humans may have left Africa as much as 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. Scientists say that an ancient upper jawbone and associated stone tools could also mean that Homo sapiens, modern humans, arose in Africa far earlier than fossils now show, according to a study…
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Opinion Liberal Jews: Lay Off Mike Pence
This past week, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence made a historic visit to Israel. Unsurprisingly, it was largely pilloried by liberal Jews. What was the Vice President’s offense? Being a pro-Israel evangelical Christian, a perspective some Jews find suspicious. In these pages, Jane Eisner has warned of the dangers of evangelical…
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Opinion No, Israel Is Not Sliding Into Fascism
There’s a new meme afoot warning of an existential crisis threatening Israel. According to a growing number of home-bred critics, Israel is no longer a democracy. Nor, according to these people, is Israel in the category of other oppressive regimes, like Saudi Arabia or Iran. Israel has even surpassed merely racist regimes like Apartheid South…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence’s Faith Drives His Support For Israel. Does It Drive Mideast Policy?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Mike Pence moved to Washington earlier this year, he and his wife took with them a framed phrase they had for years hung over their fireplace in their Indiana home, and then over the fireplace in the governor’s mansion in that state. Now it hangs over the mantle at the vice…
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