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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 | 10 10 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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Pollard, despite appeals, not allowed to attend father's funeral
by JTA
Jun 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Jonathan Pollard was not allowed to attend his father's funeral despite appeals from Israeli officials and supporters who shut down the White House switchboard. U.S. authorities would not release ...
Jews on motorcycles? Yes, and they’re Ridin’ Chai!
by Emma Silvers
j weekly
Jun 20, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
SAN FRANCISCO -- It’s a warm Sunday afternoon in the Berkeley hills, and if you look west from the road that abuts Tilden Park, the San Francisco skyline is about as clear as it gets. As with most ...
Meet Australia's Aborigine who is president of her Orthodox shul
by Dan Goldberg
JTA
Jun 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
SYDNEY, Australia -- Lisa Jackson Pulver is not your average Australian Jew. Yes, she is one of this country’s 110,000 or so Members of the Tribe, but she is also a member of another tribe: an Abo...
The rebranding of Jewish Krakow aims to change conventional perceptions
by Ruth Ellen Gruber
JTA
Jun 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
KRAKOW, Poland -- Jews in Krakow have a new slogan -- "Never Better." The catchphrase is deliberately provocative, a blatant rejoinder to "Never Again," the slogan long associated with Holocaust m...
Suspected gas tank explosion in Netanya kills three
by JTA
Jun 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A suspected gas tank explosion in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya killed three people and injured 49 others. The explosion in the four-story building, which occurred shortly after midnight ear...
Jewish Agency to approve Orthodox converts for aliyah
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- The Jewish Agency for Israel will now approve Orthodox converts' eligibility for aliyah. Israel's Interior Ministry announced the change in a letter to the Knesset on Tuesday. Previo...
One writer asks: How are we welcoming the converts in our lives?
by Edmon J. Rodman
JTA
Jun 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- Ruth’s day was just here. Not the Ruth with all the home runs. The other Ruth, the biblical one who hit an eternal shot for Jews by Choice. We read her book and story on Shavuot. He...
In New York village where arson attack occurred, the rebbe’s word is law
by Alex Weisler
JTA
Jun 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW SQUARE, N.Y. -- For years, this leafy Chasidic village about an hour north of New York City has been a shtetl-like haven where residents could live their strictly Orthodox lifestyle far from th...
Ahead of Palestinian U.N. gambit, Europe is in play
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jun 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — It was a sign that ties between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations remain strong despite the apparent tensions two weeks ago when the two leaders met at the White House. On Monday,...
Netanyahu won’t meet with visiting congressional delegation
by Madeleine Morgenstern
JTA
Jun 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not meet with a visiting congressional delegation visiting under J Street auspices. Jeremy Ben-Ami, who directs the self-described "pro...