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Opinion 6 Bad Habits the Jewish Left Should Avoid in 2016
For the Israeli left, 2015 was a terrible year. We lost elections again. Attacks on civil society and on minorities are multiplying. Political violence is escalating, and a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems unimaginable. There is a Hebrew quip among the left that if we fail to replace the leaders, “we need to…
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Life The Israeli Men Who Return to Religion Due to Their Filipino Partners
Using the special Yemenite chant he learned decades ago as a young boy, Moshe Hizmi recites the Haftara portion that follows the weekly Torah reading, as a hush falls over the congregation. But the scene playing out on the podium this Shabbat at Beit Daniel, Israel’s flagship Reform congregation, is different from anything he remembers…
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Opinion What Benjamin Netanyahu Could Have Said After Tel Aviv Terror
The shattered glass windows had not yet been replaced. The scars of the bullet holes were still visible. Just a day earlier, on Friday afternoon, at that very spot, at the Simta Bar in central Tel Aviv, an Arab citizen of Israel had sprayed his automatic rifle into a crowded pub, killing two innocent young…
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Opinion WATCH: When Israelis From Different Worlds Look Each Other in the Eye
The reality in Israel is unique. We’ve got colorful, creative, emotional life, and energy that pulses on despite all the difficulties. But the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does take its toll, and it seems that our society is becoming more divided, polarized and steeped in violence with each passing day. When the waves of hatred rise to…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Opens Door to Spying on Israel
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “leave open the possibility of spying” on allies like Israel if he were president. On Sunday morning, Trump was asked on the CBS news show “Face the Nation”for his reaction to The Wall Street Journal story from late last month reporting that the National Security Agency spied…
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Fast Forward Banned Novel About Jewish-Palestinian Love Becomes Bestseller
A novel about a Israeli-Palestinian romance that was banned at secular state schools in Israel is a runaway best-seller. Following reports that “Gader Haya,” or “Borderlife,” by Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan, was banned from the curriculum of advanced high school literature classes, the book was leading sales in Israeli bookstores, according to reports. The Education…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect Has Long History of Violence
The shooter in the attack on a bar full of patrons in central Tel Aviv that killed two has been named by police as an Arab-Israeli man with a history of violence. The attacker was named as Nashat Melhem, 31, of Arara, a village in Wadi Ara in northern Israel. A gag order was lifted…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect’s Family Denounces Attack as Manhunt Widens
Police in Israel were hunting on Saturday for an Israeli Arab identified as the suspect in Friday’s deadly shooting attack on a Tel Aviv bar, a case they described as “complex and unique.” Nashat Melhem, 29, from the village of Arara in northern Israel was still at large and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited…
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