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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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Wife must pay husband for refusing divorce
Aug 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli woman must pay her husband nearly $57,000 in damages for refusing to accept a Jewish writ of divorce, or get. A Family Court judge in northern Israel on Sunday ordered the ...
Israeli bus attacked near Eilat
by Marcy Oster
JTA
Aug 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli bus traveling near Eilat was attacked by gunmen, injuring at least five passengers. The attack on Egged bus number 392 just after noon on Thursday may have originated from ...
Gay Israeli soldiers claim harassment
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Aug 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Gay soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces said they have been sexually harassed during their military service. Forty percent of the gay and lesbian soldiers said they were verbally ab...
Just how expensive is it to live in Israel?
by Jessica Steinberg
JTA
Aug 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- What began in Israel in June as a Facebook-driven rebellion against the rising cost of cottage cheese, then morphed in July into tent encampments protesting soaring real estate costs, ...
Lieberman scaled political heights, but wants his legacy to be the Sabbath
by Ron Kampeas
Ron Kampeas
Aug 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelical. The Independent senator from Connecticut -- and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics -- is probably more cognizant than most ...
Blogger held for threatening Senator Lieberman
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Aug 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The FBI has charged a Philadelphia blogger with threatening to shoot Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Dmitry Dyatlov, 23, was charged Tuesday for making the threat on his blog against Lieberman (I-Conn.). H...
Riots spread to Jewish communities in London
by Dan Klein
JTA
Aug 10, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
While some Jews in London marked Tisha b’Av on Tuesday by lamenting the burning of the Holy Temples on that day some two millennia ago, other London Jews watched as their city burned amid widesprea...
'Check-ing' out the Wall, $50M penthouse, Grandpa's jackpot
by Marcy Oster
JTA
Aug 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Here is some recent news out of Israel that you may have missed: 'Check'-ing out the Wall One visitor to the Western Wall tried to seal the deal to assure divine intervention, insert...
Panel set up to review demands following mass Israeli protest
by JTA
Aug 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu established a committee to examine the demands of leaders of the social justice protest movement following one of the largest demonstrations in Israel'...
Israelis protestors seeking revival of welfare state
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Aug 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — The wave of protests sweeping Israel is about much more than the lack of affordable housing: It’s a grassroots demand for the major redistribution of the nation’s wealth. In social term...