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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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Leiby Kletzky’s accused killer pleads not guilty
by JTA
Aug 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Levi Aron, the Brooklyn man who is accused of killing and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. Aron was arraigned Thursday in Brooklyn. An atto...
Orthodox group protests kosher food firm
by JTA
Aug 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- A coalition of rabbis joined workers and labor activists in a rally against unfair labor practices at a 93-year-old kosher food distributor in New York. Uri L’Tzedek, an Orthodox socia...
In California farming town, a Latino congregation commits to Judaism
by Roberto Loiederman
The Jewish Journal
Aug 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- Located in the northern part of Santa Barbara County, but as distant from chic Santa Barbara as one can imagine, Santa Maria is a blue-collar town dotted with fast-food and barbecue ...
Israel reportedly working with U.S. on new peace framework
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Aug 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israel has been working with the United States to develop a new framework to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians, according to reports. News agencies cited an unnamed Isr...
Kirk Douglas wins tribute for breaking Hollywood blacklist
by Tom Tugend
JTA
Aug 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES — Ask Kirk Douglas for the proudest accomplishment in his 94 years and the iconic actor cites his actions in breaking the infamous Hollywood blacklist. Douglas did so by giving writer D...
Ehud Barak: U.S. advises qualified apology to Turkey
by JTA
Jul 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration agrees with a formulation in which Israel would apologize to Turkey for the deadly 2010 flotilla raid without accepting blame, Ehud Barak said. Isarel's defe...
Thousands mourn murdered kabbalist
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Jul 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Thousands of Israelis gathered for the funeral of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, a prominent kabbalist murdered by an apparently disgruntled advice-seeker. The 70-year-old Abuhatzeira was buried Friday...
Beck and the Jews: Does he get them? Do they get him?
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Jul 27, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON – Does Glenn Beck get Jews? It depends on whom you ask – to a degree – but it also seems to depend on the day of the week. Here he is on the night of July 19: “The Jewish people have b...
The self-described Jewish innovation sector "mistook changes in methods of communication for changes in the nature of community itself."
by Matthew Ackerman
JTA
Jul 25, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter argued famously that the forces of “creative destruction” unleashed by capitalist economies were largely positive, as they favored the best inno...
Norway killer espoused right-wing philosophy claiming to be Zionist
by Toby Axelrod
JTA
Jul 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
BERLIN -- The confessed perpetrator in the attack in Norway that killed as many as 98 people espoused a right-wing philosophy against Islam that also purports to be pro-Zionist. Anders Behring Bre...