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News On Mideast Peace, Trump The Bomb-Thrower Starting To Looks Like Mr. Normal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Trump administration rhetoric about Israeli-Palestinian peace is typical of a president who would make everything great: President Donald Trump is going to bring about a “historic” deal, the White House has said, one that would “reverberate positively throughout the region and the world.” What isn’t typical, at least for a president who has…
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Community Rifts In The Jewish Sisterhood: Why Complaints About Zionism Vs. Feminism Are Beside The Point
Many of us saw the International Women’s Strike on March 8, 2017 — held on the historic International Women’s Day — as a day of unprecedented unity. By all evidence, the rallies, marches, walk-outs from workplaces, street theater and massive eruption of feminist protest on social media in hundreds of cities and countries across the…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Threatens To Leave UN Human Rights Council
(JTA) — The Trump administration is threatening to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, citing among other things the intergovernmental body’s “biased agenda against Israel.” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent a letter this week to nine nonprofit groups opposed to withdrawal — including one affiliated with the American Jewish Committee — in which…
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Community The Burdens of Jewish Power
When we read the Book of Esther to celebrate Purim, many Jews see it as a classic Jewish story: “they tried to kill us. We won. Lets eat!” The book of Esther does contain a typical story of Jewish victimhood and Jewish survival: Haman tried to kill the Jews, but then Esther and Mordechai rose…
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Fast Forward Israel Lawmakers Delay Vote On West Bank Settlement Annexation
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee vote on a bill that would annex the large West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim was postponed to avoid a conflict with a visiting Trump administration official. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation was scheduled to take up the bill, which would subject the settlement to Israeli law, on Tuesday, but delayed…
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Opinion Is Donald Trump Turning Out To Be Israeli Right’s Worst Nightmare?
You don’t have to love Donald Trump to enjoy him sometimes. Over the weekend, Trump spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and upset — and if he didn’t, he should have upset — the entire Israeli right. A U.S. president who states his commitment to a “comprehensive agreement that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” and…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Threaten To Disrupt Jerusalem Marathon Over Military Enlistment
Ultra-Orthodox protesters have threatened to disrupt the Jerusalem marathon on Friday unless the police release a Haredi army defector. According to the Israeli news site Ynet, the defector is a follower of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, a leader of the Lithuanian Haredi Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem who opposes enlistment in the Israeli Defense Forces. A Haredi…
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Community My Passover Trip That Wasn’t
If you live in America, you probably notice lots of people like me during Passover — namely, Israelis visiting the US of A, trying to shop till we drop. (After all, we did promise Kobi, Uri, Avivit and Dudi that we’d bring them back all the latest gadgets! You really can’t blame us.) Do you…
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