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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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Goldstone: I was wrong on Israel’s intentions
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Apr 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Israel did not intentionally target civilians as a policy during the Gaza War, Richard Goldstone said, withdrawing a critical allegation in his report. "We know a lot more today abou...
B’nai B’rith chief Dennis Glick indicted on tax fraud
by JTA
Apr 01, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Dennis Glick, who abruptly resigned as president of B'nai B'rith International, has been indicted on federal charges of tax fraud, JTA has learned. Glick, a certified public accounta...
Palestinian group slams storing rockets in civilian areas
by JTA
Mar 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian human rights group in the Gaza Strip condemned the storage of rockets used against Israel in civilian populated areas. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in a state...
Police, protesters clash near Israeli Embassy in Ethiopia
by JTA
Mar 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Dozens were injured and arrested at a demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Some 80 demonstrators claiming Jewish heritage were arrested and about the sa...
Gingrich: U.S. run by "anti-Jewish" elite
by JTA
Mar 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- The United States under President Obama is "dominated by a secular, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish elite," Newt Gingrich said. Gingrich, the onetime speaker of the U.S. House of Repr...
Facebook to monitor intifada page, won’t remove it
by JTA
Mar 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Facebook will monitor a page calling for a third Palestinian uprising against Israel but will not remove it. "Third Palestinian Intifada," established on Facebook less than a month ag...
Will Carter press for Gross’ release on Cuba visit?
by JTA
Mar 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Jimmy Carter is scheduled to visit Jewish leaders during a trip to Cuba, leading to speculation that the former U.S. president will ask the Cuban government to release jailed American contractor Al...
For new Reform leader Richard Jacobs, big tent movement is the idea
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Mar 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — For the man tapped to lead American Jewry’s largest religious denomination, keeping the movement’s 900-plus synagogues welcoming to the unaffiliated, inspiring for members and a home for...
'Third intifada' Facebook page abusing technology, ADL says
by JTA
Mar 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A Facebook page calling for a third Palestinian intifada is abusing technology to promote terrorist violence and should be taken down, the Anti-Defamation League said. "Third Palestinian Intifada,...
Jerusalem bomb casualty was a British national
by JTA
Mar 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- The lone casualty in the bombing at a bus stop in central Jerusalem was a British woman studying at Hebrew University. Mary Jean Gardner, 59, had been in Israel since January, the Jew...