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News Does Push for India’s ‘Lost Tribe of Menashe’ Signal New Interest in Far-flung Jewish Communities?
Israel will spend 8.1 million shekels, or about $2 million, to bring more than 712 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community to Israel this year, the Israeli news site Walla reported May 22. In the past, the Ministry of Absorption and the Jewish Agency have handled group immigration to Israel. But in the case of…
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Fast Forward New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Anti-BDS Order
— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement. The order signed Sunday, hours before the start of New York’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade, will require state agencies to divest themselves of companies and organizations aligned with the BDS movement. Cuomo said at the signing at…
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Fast Forward McGill Student Union Calls BDS Violation of Group’s Constitution
MONTREAL — Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolutions that “actively campaign” against Israel run counter to the McGill University’s undergraduate student union constitution, the union’s judicial board agreed. While the board decision, called a “reference,” still faces ratification by the Student Society of McGill University’s board of directors, the move on Wednesday is being hailed as…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Blasts French Peace Push — Says Will Stoke Palestinian ‘Intransigence’
— The international peace conference that begins Friday in Paris will harm chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace and “radicalize Palestinian demands,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said two days before its start. In a speech Wednesday at Bar-Ilan University’s medical school graduation, Netanyahu criticized the Paris effort and repeated a call for direct talks “without preconditions,”…
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News Packing Pistols, Israeli Archeologists Battle Dust and Looters in Race To Uncover Ancient Scrolls
TZEELIM VALLEY, Israel – The disposable paper face masks offer little protection from the clouds of dust that fill the cliffside cave where Israeli archaeologists are wrapping up the largest excavation in the Judean desert of the past half-century. Clipped into safety harnesses, volunteers stand at the cave opening, 250 meters (820 feet) above a…
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Fast Forward British Labour Chief Jeremy Corbyn Slams Israel in Newly Released Letters
(JTA) — In letters sent to the foreign minister, the head of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called for sanctions against Israel and described some of the Jewish state’s politicians as “criminals” who should be banned from Britain. Corbyn’s anti-Israel letters, written while he was a Parliament member but before he was elected party chief,…
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Opinion Don’t Apologize for Being Jewish — to the Left or the Right
There should be a conversation in the Jewish community about the conversation that is being had about us. If you’ve missed it, here’s what it sounds like. On the hard left, populated largely by fans of Bernie Sanders, the Jews are too powerful, too privileged and too white to deserve any protections against bigotry, ad…
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Israel News Will Israel Live Up To Deal on Western Wall Prayer? Benjamin Netanyahu Sets 3-Week Deadline
American Jewish leaders have told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Jewish diaspora’s relationship with Israel is at stake if it fails to implement a plan — already approved by the government, but blocked by the ultra-Orthodox — for an egalitarian plaza at the Western Wall. At a June 1 meeting, called in emergency…
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