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Israel News Inspired By Anne Frank, Israeli Rabbis To Hide African Immigrants Facing Deportation
A group of Israeli rabbis, including the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, cited Anne Frank as inspiration for a program calling on Israelis to hide African asylum seekers facing forced expulsion from Israel in their homes. The Anne Frank Home Sanctuary movement hopes to assist the near 40,000 African asylum seekers predominately from Eritrea and…
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The Schmooze Will A.J. Edelman Make Waves On The Ice At Winter Olympics?
“I want to challenge the perception of what Jews and Israelis can do in sports.” That was the theme that A.J. Edelman kept returning to during an interview just hours after the 26-year-old learned that he would be competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. On Wednesday, Edelman became Israel’s first-ever Olympic athlete in skeleton, a…
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Fast Forward Some Say The Messiah Is Coming — On Israel’s New High-Speed Train
A new high-speed train nearing completion in Jerusalem is being celebrated as a sign that the Messiah is on the way. Breaking Israel News, a website that caters to prophetically-minded readers, declared that “many esoteric hints indicate the road to the Third Temple will be paved with train tracks.” There is, the website writes, a…
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Culture WATCH: Yosl Birstein Gave A Yiddish Voice To Israel’s Charms And Foibles
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Yosl Birstein was such a terrific storyteller, both in Yiddish and in Hebrew, that he eventually became a legendary figure on the Israeli radio. In this video filmed in 1994, Birstein portrays with authentic Yiddish charm and humor the various characters he met after settling in Israel:…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Killed In Clashes With Israeli Troops
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers near Qalqilya in the West Bank. Dozens of Palestinians were protesting in Jayyus, located near the western border of the West Bank, and began throwing rocks at Israel Defense Forces soldiers deployed near Qalqilya. The soldiers responded with riot dispersal methods and…
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Fast Forward U.S. Denies Visa For Controversial Israeli Singer To Perform At U.N.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United States embassy in Israel has declined a visa request by Israeli singer Amir Benayoun, who is scheduled to perform a song he wrote at the United Nations’ annual ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Benayoun is scheduled to be joined on stage at the U.N. in New York by singers…
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Fast Forward Abbas Denies Jewish Connection To Israel In Speech To Palestinian Leadership
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denied a Jewish connection to Israel in a speech to the Palestinian leadership. “Israel is a colonial project that has nothing to do with Jews,” Abbas said during a more than two-hour speech in Ramallah, to a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council. The two-day…
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Israel News Circumcision Rates Are Slipping — Even In Israel
When Rani and Hedva Kasher, who live on Kibbutz Kfar Giladi near Israel’s border with Lebanon, had their first two boys, they automatically scheduled the circumcision ceremony. It’s a tradition that marks membership in the Jewish people and goes back to the Bible, which describes both Abraham and Moses’ circumcisions. “I was blind and I…
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