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Israel News Will Israel Switch to Working Monday-Thru-Friday — and Get a Real Weekend?
When his friends are starting their workweek on Sunday, Uri Snyder is hitting the Tel Aviv beach. Unlike most Israelis, who take off Friday and Saturday, Snyder works an American schedule. Snyder, a 28-year-old Israeli American, is a product consultant at SimilarWeb, an Israeli tech company that helps businesses make decisions about Internet marketing. With…
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Opinion First Step to Reflecting Jews’ Real Values? Focus Less on Israel.
If it’s not American Jewish liberals who have betrayed Israel, but our organizations that have betrayed us — — then that leaves us with a question: What would a genuine Jewish public agenda look like? Here’s a quick recap of how we got to where we are: When the main American Jewish advocacy organizations arose…
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Fast Forward Wendy Sherman Recalls ‘Painful’ Split With Israel and Jews
A top U.S. negotiator with Iran said enduring the tension the talks engendered between the Obama administration and Israel and the Jewish community was very painful. “For me personally, one of the most difficult parts was the tension with this beloved country and its people,” Wendy Sherman, who led the U.S. team in the talks…
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Opinion Who’s To Blame for Jewish Group Getting Booted from Gay Conference?
It’s been a busy week for the National LGBTQ Task Force. Jewish accusations of exclusionary behavior, silencing, anti-Semitism, being too harsh on Israel, being too easy on Israel — all this and more inundated the Task Force, and all because of a single event at the Creating Change Conference in Chicago. First the Task Force…
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Fast Forward Secular Israeli Leader’s Home Vandalized as Jewish Extremism Spreads
The Jerusalem home of a secular Jewish educator was vandalized by suspected Jewish extremists. The graffiti discovered Thursday morning at the home of Yaakov Malkin included a reference to the Book of Psalms about hating “those who are in rebellion” against God, a Star of David and the words “Destruction of Amalek,” referring to the…
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Fast Forward Israel Seizes Palestinian Land — Thumbs Nose at Europe by Destroying Aid Structures
Israel confirmed on Thursday it was planning to appropriate a large tract of fertile land in the occupied West Bank, close to Jordan, a move likely to exacerbate tensions with Western allies and already drawing international condemnation. In an email sent to Reuters, COGAT, a unit of Israel’s Defence Ministry, said the political decision to…
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Opinion Boycott the West Bank? Nope. Label Settlement Products? Well, OK.
The Israeli government’s intention to maintain the status quo in the territories it has occupied since 1967 is facing two new challenges. The Europeans want products made in the settlements to be labeled as such. And Human Rights Watch is calling for companies to stop doing business in the settlements altogether. Both moves are tactics…
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Fast Forward American Envoy Attacked as ‘Little Jew Boy’ After Criticism of Israel
U.S. and European criticism of Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank have drawn a furious response from Israel this week, including a former official dismissing the U.S. ambassador to Tel Aviv as a “little Jew boy.” Although the concerns expressed by Israel’s closest allies were partly cloaked in diplomatic language they struck a nerve…
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