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Opinion What Happens To Israel When There Are More Muslims In America Than Jews?
Since the 1990s, American presidents have provided Israel the military capacity and diplomatic immunity to control millions of Palestinians who lack basic rights. Yet, at the same time, American presidents have insisted that Palestinians deserve those basic rights — that, in the words of George W. Bush, “it is untenable for Palestinians to live in…
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Opinion Israel Made Itself A Pariah By Barring Me And My Fellow Activists
As a Jewish mother, one of the most important things to me is to instill in my children a sense of Jewish identity and values. For my now 15- and 16-year-old children, this has over the years included Tot-Shabbat at our synagogue, Hebrew school, Jewish summer camp and even Jewish youth group trips to Israel….
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Fast Forward Sephardic Chief Rabbi Opposes Death Penalty For Terrorists Bill
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said in his weekly address that he is opposed to a bill that would allow the death penalty for terrorists. Yosef said he was concerned about a Jewish terrorist receiving a death sentence, and referred specifically to the Jewish extremists who firebombed a Palestinian home in…
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Opinion I’m A Jew And A Member Of JVP. Israel Just Banned Me.
In 2011, I visited the land of Israel on a trip for American Jews, organized by an Orthodox yeshiva — kind of like Birthright, only more religious. I remember how holy it felt to pray at the graves of the matriarchs and patriarchs in Hebron, to dunk in the mikvah (ritual bath) used by the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Voice For Peace, 5 Other U.S. Groups On Israel’s BDS Blacklist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry has placed the left-wing, California-based Jewish Voice for Peace and five other U.S. groups on a BDS blacklist. Hadashot News, the Israel Television News Company, first reported Saturday night that members of JVP, which has over 200,000 online supporters and 70 chapters, could be banned from entering the…
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Fast Forward U.S., Israeli, Saudi Policies On Iran ‘Would Lead Us To War’: French President
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron said the policies concerning Iran of the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia may lead to war. Macron, who in November said France wished to counter “Iranian hegemony” in the region, made the remarks on Jan. 3 in Paris during a talk with media outlets and diplomats, the Russian…
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Fast Forward Kosovo Would’ve Voted With U.S. On Jerusalem Embassy Move
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Kosovo president Hashim Thaci said his Muslim-majority nation would have voted with the United States against a United Nations resolution condemning the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Thaci said in a recent interview with the Albanian newspaper Express that were Kosovo to achieve full United Nations membership it would…
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Community Ten Commandments For Thinking About Modern Anti-Semitism
In an op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 2, editor-in-chief Andrew Silow-Carroll suggests that defining anti-Semitism is a key question of the moment, but that it’s complicated given the polarization of left and right. Like so much else in politics today, the debate about contemporary anti-Semitism is a dialogue of the deaf waged…
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די אַמאָליקע קינדערביכער האָבן אָפּגעשפּיגלט כּלערליי פּאָליטישע וויזיעס און אויך אַ נײַעם פֿאַרשטאַנד פֿון קינדער און משפּחה־לעבן.
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Fast Forward Reversing course, Philadelphia Jewish museum says it will rehang Israeli flag that was vandalized
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Fast Forward CDC chaos leaves Orthodox Jewish communities more vulnerable to vaccine misinformation
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: נײַע אַמעריקאַנער פּאָסטמאַרקע באַערט אלי וויזעלTidbits: New US Postal Service stamp honors Elie Wiesel
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