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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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Jewish couple among the dead in Marrakesh cafe explosion
by JTA
Apr 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A Jewish couple were among more than a dozen people killed in an explosion Thursday in Marrakesh, Morocco. Massoud Weizman, 32, and his wife Michal, 30, lived in Shanghai, China, but were visitin...
Fatah, Hamas agree to reconciliation deal
by JTA
Apr 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to a reconciliation deal. The surprise deal to form an interim government and hold general elections within a year was reached in secret ...
Second computer virus infiltrates Iran’s computer systems
by JTA
Apr 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Iran has discovered a second computer virus designed to damage government computer systems. The discovery of the virus, called Stars, was announced Monday by a senior Iranian official...
France considering recognizing Palestinian state
by JTA
Apr 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
PARIS -- France is actively considering recognizing a Palestinian state, along with other European neighbors. “The recognition of a Palestinian state is an option that we are currently thinking ab...
Israeli intellectuals declare for Palestinian state at rally
by JTA
Apr 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV -- A group of Israel Prize laureates and other notable artists and academics endorsed Palestinian plans to declare independence along 1967 lines at a Tel Aviv ceremony. Thursday's rally w...
Bibi, Zuckerberg, Giffords make Time's list of most influential
by JTA
Apr 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Zuckerberg and Gabrielle Giffords are among the Jewish members on the 2011 Time 100. The magazine's list of the most influential people in the world came out T...
Maryland synagogue attacked
by JTA
Apr 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
The windows of a Maryland synagogue and two nearby Jewish-owned businesses were shot out. The vandalism was discovered Monday morning, hours before the start of Passover. Police have not yet dete...
Arrest of two Palestinians for Itamar killings can't console Fogels' kin
by Marcy Oster
JTA
Apr 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- They came armed with knives and wire cutters looking for a Jewish target. It was a Friday night, the Sabbath eve of March 11, and Palestinian teenagers Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad,...
As Spain builds monuments to its Jewish past, critics question motives
by Ben Harris
JTA
Apr 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
GIRONA, Spain -- Hidden among the maze of alleyways east of the Onyar River, the Museum of Jewish History stands as testament -- if an inadvertent one -- to the completeness of Spain's destruction ...
U.S. Senate unanimously calls on U.N. to rescind Goldstone
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Apr 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) initiated...