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Breaking News Yom Kippur Service May Expand Wall St. Protest
The Yom Kippur service at the ongoing anti-corporate protests in downtown Manhattan will be used to expand the scope of the activists’ “occupation” of the Financial District, according to the service’s organizer. Activists who have been camping at a public plaza near Wall Street asked Dan Sieradski, the Jewish new media activist who has organized…
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Life Why My Yom Kippur Is at Occupy Wall Street
On the Friday night immediately after Rosh Hashanna, my son Dan called for Shabbat dinner at Occupy Wall Street. There were about 25-30 of us who made kiddush, ate cholent (which translates these days into vegetarian chili), had tuna fish instead of gefilte fish and drank lots of juice while eating home-made challah. When a…
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News Wall Street Protest Can’t Match Israeli Tent Cities, For Now
It was one day after New York City police arrested scores of left-wing demonstrators during a march on Manhattan’s Union Square, and the ranks were dwindling at the protesters’ downtown encampment. A member of the group offered a weather forecast extending to the end of the week — not a minor consideration for the activists,…
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Opinion Israeli Protests Give Masses a Reason to Speak Out
If you’ve ever been to Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina, the circular public plaza in the north of the city, you’ll know just how utterly large it is. It’s a massive, usually empty expanse ringed by posh stores like Louis Vuitton and Gucci — the epicenter of Israeli capitalism, if you will. And so it was…
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Life Are Women Being Left Behind in Israel Protests?
At the start of the summer, Israel’s social protest movement looked like it would represent a real turning point for women in the public sphere. The face of the movement was indisputably female. The story began when a young filmmaker, 25-year-old Daphne Leef, pitched a tent in downtown Tel Aviv to protest the lack of…
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News Glenn Beck Brings Firebreathing Rhetoric Back to Israel
Glenn Beck is in Israel, again. In July, the talk radio host and former Fox News star was invited to the Kensset, where he met “a room full of admirers” — in the words of a Channel 1 report — led by Likud MK Danny Danon. Beck urged Israelis to stand strong; among those shaking…
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Opinion Protest Movement Offers Hope for Israel’s Future
“The People demand social justice.” That’s the slogan, the chant of more than 300,000 people in dozens of sites across Israel. And just maybe, the State of Israel is now entering the third chapter of its history as independent. During the first chapter, which extends from Israel’s founding in 1948, to 1977, 29 years of…
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Opinion Few Religious Jews Join Israeli Cost-of-Living Protests
As protesters against the high cost of living in Israel flood the country’s streets, one demographic is noticeably absent: the religious sector. While, to be sure, individual yarmulkes can be seen here and there — including on the evening of July 30, when up to 150,000 people demonstrated in multiple locations — the general disinterest…
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