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News Bomb Threat Suspect Arrest: Reaction Roundup
As news broke on Thursday that a dual American-Israeli citizen teenager was responsible for the bulk of bomb threats called into Jewish community centers and other Jewish organizations, reactions poured in on social media and in press releases. Here is a round-up of takes from community leaders, politicians, writers and other notables. Jewish Leaders Jonathan…
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News Venezuela Expresses ‘Desire’ To Re-Establish Diplomatic Ties With Israel
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Venezuela’s foreign minister expressed to his country’s chief rabbi “the desire to establish full relations with the State of Israel” eight years after the South American nation expelled its Israeli ambassador. “We suggested to start with a period of courtship, which means a beginning through consular relations, so that later…
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News Israeli American’s Arrest As Bomb Suspect Intensifies Hate Crime Debate
A teen with dual Israeli and American citizenship who lives in Ashkelon in southern Israel was arrested on suspicion of carrying out more than 100 bomb threats on Jewish institutions in the United States. News of his arrest stirred further debate on anti-Semitic hate crimes in the United States, commonly attributed to a white nationalist…
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Israel News Israeli Leading Research Into Pot As Palliative for Autism
One night not long ago, Sharon’s nine-year-old son Yehuda was crying. But Yehuda couldn’t tell her what was wrong because he doesn’t speak — he has autism — and so he grew anxious. Finally, he used an iPad app for autistic children to indicate that he wanted to go to sleep. But in the future,…
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Fast Forward Why Do A Third of Israelis Want To Leave The Country?
A third of Jewish Israelis would leave the country if they could, according to a poll conducted by Masa Israeli, a group looking at the divisions of Jewish society in Israel. It found that secular Jews were the most likely to want to emigrate, with 36% saying they would leave the country if they could….
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Calls For Closer Ties With China After State Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walked the Great Wall of China at the end of a state visit to China. During the visit, which ended Wednesday, the University of Haifa signed an agreement with the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, a Chinese conglomerate, and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences that…
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Fast Forward Israel, British Jewry Offer Condolences After Deadly London Attacks
(JTA) — At least two civilians and a police officer were killed in a car-ramming and knife attack outside of the houses of Parliament in London. British authorities are calling the attack a “terrorist incident” as they continue to investigate the motive in the Wednesday afternoon attack. More than 20 are reported injured, some seriously….
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News JVP Plan To Feature Convicted Terrorist As Speaker Upended By Deportation Agreement
Jewish Voice for Peace, a group already controversial among establishment Jews for its support of an Israel boycott, attracted extra attention this month thanks to a featured speaker at its upcoming biennial conference here. Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted in 1970 for a 1969 bombing at a Jerusalem supermarket that left two dead, was scheduled…
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