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<i>Dov Lipman</i>
American-born MK on U.S. speaking tour
Dov Lipman is coming to the United States this week for the first time without a U.S. passport. As a precondition for joining the Israeli government as a Member of Knesset, Lipman, 41, had to make ...
Apr 19, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> A Qassam rocket in Sderot. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Israel attacked by Gaza rockets during Obama visit
(JNS.org ) Four Gaza rockets were fired at Israel on Thursday, with two of them landing in the often rocket-battered city of Sderot, during the second day of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit t...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>​Benjamin Netanyahu (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Next Israeli government formed after 39 days of negotiation
(JNS.org ) At the culmination of a long, complex and nerve-wracking negotiation — lasting a whopping 39 days — the coalition agreements that will finalize the(next Israeli government have come to...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Flag of Norway. The Norwegian state-owned station, NRK, found that Norway gives the PA about 300 million kroner a year ($52,628,700) and directly correlated this to the PA’s incitement of hatred and glorification of terrorism. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Norway questions funding of PA after Palestinian Media Watch findings
Recent findings by Palestinian Media Watch on the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) glorification of terrorism against Israel were featured in a news report by a television station in Norway, one of th...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israel and Turkey seek to reconcile ahead of Obama’s visit
Israeli and Turkish officials have been engaging in dialogue over the past few weeks, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. The head of Israel’s National Security Council recently met with a high-ranki...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>President Barack Obama</i>
Israel to award Obama with medal of distinction
Israeli President Shimon Peres has announced that he will award U.S. President Barack Obama the Presidential Medal of Distinction during his upcoming visit, the Associated Press reported. Pe...
Feb 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Pope Benedict XVI (AFP)</i>
Benedict will be the first pope in over six centuries to voluntarily resign
Citing advancing age and diminished energy, Pope Benedict XVI will reportedly become the first pope in 600 years to voluntarily resign from the post. The 85-year-old pontiff announced that he ...
Feb 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Gershom Gorenberg</i>
Gorenberg: Israel’s election a step in right direction, but not far enough
(This is a revised version of the story that appeared in this week's Chronicle, and contains the names of the sponsors of the program) You might think, given the title of Gershom Gorenberg’s upc...
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>President Barack Obama (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Obama will visit Israel for first time as president
White House officials said Tuesday that President Barack Obama, whose relationship with Israel routinely garners attention due to his reported tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plans ...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Gregg Roman, community relations director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, translates a live speech by Yair Lapid , leader of the Yesh Atid party in Israel, during an Israel Election Night party Tuesday at the Federation office in Oakland. Yesh Atid finished a surprisingly strong second in the voting Tuesday, which could make Lapid a major player as the next government of Israel is put together. (Chronicle photo by Ohad Cadji)</i>
Bibi’s party wins Knesset vote with surprisingly slim margin
(Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the story posted last night and contains additions throughout.) Israeli voters showed again Tuesday just how unpredictable they could be. Political...
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jack Lew
Jack Lew, Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in U.S. government history
Jack Lew, President Obama’s current chief of staff and his pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in the history of the U.S. government. It’s a distinction that imposes so...
Jan 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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First snow for new Ethiopian immigrants in Israel
Hundreds of Ethiopian olim (immigrants), who are living in the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) absorption centers in Safed, experienced snow this week for the first time. The children pictured hea...
Jan 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stormy weather brings Tel Aviv to standstill
Torrential rain and strong winds have brought much of Tel Aviv, Israel's business hub, to a standstill, as the stormy weather of late in Israel continues. Roads and highways have been affected and ...
Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Weil’s ‘Life with a Star’ pairs Holocaust reality with inspiring hope
by Hilary Daninhirsch
For the Chronicle
Oct 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Jiri Weil was one of the most remarkable Jewish writers that you’ve never heard of. Indeed, the Czechoslovakian-born author was underappreciated and relatively unknown outside of his native countr...
Biden agrees to meeting on Pollard
Oct 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Vice President Joe Biden has agreed to meet with Jewish communal leaders to discuss the case of Jonathan Pollard. Biden made the commitment at the end of a Rosh Hashanah receptio...
The Jewish Zen of Steve Jobs
by Jason Miller
JTA
Oct 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. -- Social networking sites began buzzing immediately after word spread of the death of Apple Inc. visionary Steve Jobs Wednesday evening. Rabbis took time out of their busy p...
House committee chief places hold on Palestinian aid
Oct 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is holding back nearly $200 million in humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Ros-Lehtinen ...
Arab Israelis demonstrate after mosque attack
Oct 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Arab Israelis demonstrated after a mosque in northern Israel was destroyed in a fire suspected of being set by Jewish extremists. Residents of the Bedouin Arab town of Tuba-Zang...
Arab Israelis demonstrate after mosque attack
Oct 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Arab Israelis demonstrated after a mosque in a town in the lower Galilee was destroyed in a fire suspected to be a price tag attack. Residents of the Bedouin Arab town of Tuba-Z...
‘Upcycling' is a mitzva
by Masha Rifkin
JointMedia News Service
Sep 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Julie Shane is a serial entrepreneur, even referring to her family as her “most cherished entrepreneurial experience.” A true business maven over the past 20 years, Shane’s latest venture, Causes ...
Perry slams Obama for 'endangering' Israel
Sep 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry blamed the Obama administration for Israel's crises in the Middle East and said he recognized all of Jerusalem as Israeli. Perry, the...
Kilimanjaro a tough climb
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
Having recently returned to Israel from Africa, where she climbed 19, 345 feet to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Emma Hacohen said she learned some powerful lessons. One was what it means to feel wh...
But not as tough as a child battling heart disease
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Having recently returned to Israel from Africa, where she climbed 19, 345 feet to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Emma Hacohen said she learned some powerful lessons. One was what it means to feel wh...