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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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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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Budgets slashed at Jewish schools in FSU
by Grant Slater
JTA
Dec 01, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
ODESSA, Ukraine — Across the former Soviet Union, Chabad’s outreach network is facing an acute financial crisis that has slashed budgets across the board and left the region’s largest network of J...
With Agri suspending production, the beef is no kosher meat
by Ben Harris
JTA
Nov 19, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — A supermarket in New Jersey with a large kosher section has shelves nearly empty of kosher beef. In New York, a kosher steakhouse says its customers are canceling reservations because c...
Before leaving office, Olmert addresses U.S. Jews
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Nov 19, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — In a normal year, an address by the Israeli prime minister would be treated as the centerpiece of a gathering of American Jews, especially one being held in Jerusalem. But the context ...
More evidence of a Kind David-era fortress?
by Dina Kraft
JTA
Nov 19, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
KHIRBET QEIYAFA, Israel — Under a sky of darkening clouds on a hill above the valley where tradition says David and Goliath did battle, the archeologist Yosef Garfinkel triumphantly rests his hands...
Israel’s left wing realigns ahead of Feb. elections
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Nov 19, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — With Israel’s general election less than three months away, the once all-powerful Labor Party seems to be in disarray. A new left-wing alliance forming around the dovish Meretz Party s...
Rahm Emanuel committed Jew with strong ties to Israel
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Nov 12, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
By Ron Kampeas JTA WASHINGTON — Political insight, killer in a fight, Yiddishkeit — it’s an inseparable package when it comes to Rahm Emanuel, say those who know President-elect Barack Obama’s pick...
How will Obama’s election affect Israel?
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Nov 12, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
By Leslie Susser JTA JERUSALEM — Barack Obama’s election as America’s first black president has left Israeli decision makers deeply impressed, somewhat envious of the workings of American democrac...
Jerusalem elects secular mayor in 3-way race
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Nov 12, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
The apparent victory of a secular businessman in Jerusalem’s mayoral elections was greeted with relief by Israelis concerned about the increasing Orthodox character of the city. Early exit polls T...
Son of a Nazism escapee eyes premiership in New Zealand
by Dan Goldberg
JTA
Nov 05, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
SYDNEY, Australia — It may be known as the “Land of the Long White Cloud,” but the forecast for New Zealand appears to be bright — at least for Israel and the small Kiwi Jewish community. The majo...
Western Wall prayers cleaned out and buried twice a year
by Tim Franks
BBC News
Nov 05, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — About a dozen men were scrabbling hard at an old, cracked wall. From time to time, they would stab a wooden pick inside the jammed crevices, as if they were microscopic dental hygienis...