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Opinion Jane Looking Forward: To The End Of The Land, The Ignored Poor And More
I’m going to see the play “To the End of the Land,” by David Grossman at the Lincoln Center Festival tomorrow night. Sadly, what began as an evening at the theatre has turned into a political statement. The production is a dramatization of Grossman’s brilliant but bedeviling novel exploring the connections between three Israelis who…
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Life Putting The Men In ‘Menstruation’
TEL AVIV (JTA) – In a grove in northern Israel, several dozen sweaty, shirtless Israeli men circle one another other on all fours, growling like bears. They are acting out the occasionally surly stage of the menstrual cycle, just before menstruation begins. The bear is one of four “power animals” the men emulate in an…
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Community Dear Spain: Want To Attract Jews? You’re Doing It Wrong.
Dear Spain, I couldn’t help but notice your overtures in recent years to appeal to Jewish tourists and immigrants. In an ostensible gesture of righting a historic wrong, Spain recently began offering citizenship to descendants of expelled Spanish Jews. A new museum dedicated to Jewish heritage is about to open in Málaga. There is a…
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Fast Forward Istanbul Synagogue Hit By More Protests
(JTA) — For the second time in less than a week, protesters demonstrated against Israel outside a synagogue in Istanbul. The latest incident reported in the Turkish media occurred on Saturday outside the Ahrida Synagogue on the European side of the Turkish capital, in the north of the neighborhood of Fatih, which is a stronghold…
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Fast Forward IDF Tank Hits Hamas After 2 Rockets Fired On Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Defense Forces tank attacked a Hamas post in the southern Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired on southern Israel. The IDF attack came early Monday morning, after two rocket attacks on Israel from southern Gaza, one late on Sunday evening and one on Sunday morning. Both rockets fell in…
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Opinion How Israel’s Temple Mount Crisis Became A Showdown — Between Government And Generals
On Saturday evening, July 22, the eighth day of the Temple Mount crisis, Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett, head of the religious-nationalist Jewish Home party, made a condolence visit to the family that had lost three of its members in a horrific stabbing attack the day before. It was not exactly a shiva call, as…
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Fast Forward Israeli Guard Kills Two Jordanians At Amman Embassy — Immunity Invoked
An Israeli embassy security guard shot dead a Jordanian who attacked him with a screwdriver at Israel’s embassy compound in Amman and a second Jordanian also died, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The incident had potential to cause a rift in already tense Israel-Jordan relations, because Jordan wanted to question the Israeli guard,…
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Fast Forward Jason Greenblatt Heads To Israel In Bid To Reduce Tensions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for international relations, is headed to Israel in a bid to help reduce tensions as Jerusalem’s Temple Mount remains a flash point and after a Palestinian terrorist killed three Israelis in a stabbing attack. “President Trump and his administration are closely following unfolding events in…
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