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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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Prosecution of AIPAC staffers dealt major blow
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Mar 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The prosecution in the case against two former AIPAC staffers lost two key battles in recent days, raising hopes among the defense that the ex-officials of the pro-Israel lobby ultima...
Thank you, American Jews. Love, Sderot
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Mar 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
For about a week, Sderot Mayor David Bouskila got a break from the rain of rockets upon his city. It’s not that the rockets stopped falling, but Bouskila was out of town, traveling around the Unite...
Women hold top jobs in three non-Orthodox rabbinic groups
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
There was a time when a woman couldn’t even aspire to be a rabbi. Today, they are the leaders of the non-Orthodox rabbinate in America. The Feb. 28 installation of Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus as ...
Potential intel pick peddled Saudi-funded textbook accused of bias
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s reported pick for a top intelligence post helped peddle a Saudi-funded school study guide decried by Jewish groups and educators for having anti-Jewish biase...
U.S. loses appeal in AIPAC staffers’ case
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — An appeals court rejected the prosecution’s bid to overturn tough restrictions on what it must prove in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers. The decision ...
Lifeline cut as Palestinians vacate Israeli hospitals
by Dina Kraft
JTA
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Pediatric oncologist Michael Weintraub of Hadassah Hospital recently found himself in the unenviable position of turning away ailing Palestinian children after the Palestinian Authority...
Can Bibi draw Livni into his government?
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — After winning the mandate to form a new government, Benjamin Netanyahu faces a seemingly intractable political paradox. Netanyahu owes his mandate to the support of 65 right-wing Knesse...
In Dubai tennis match, love-love proved the winner
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Sometimes, Middle East diplomacy isn’t unlike tennis: You can work the ref and slam down your racket and curse yourself blue — or you can reach across the net and shake hands. A U.S. J...
Critics aside, Israeli officials see successes in Gaza operation
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Feb 18, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — A month after the Gaza war, with Kassam rockets continuing to fall in southern Israel, many skeptical Israelis are questioning whether the war achieved anything. Since the cease-fire on...
Battle gets nasty at critical juncture for U.N. agency
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Feb 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Crooks. Whores. That’s what they call each other in polite company. UNRWA, the massive United Nations bureaucracy that administers assistance to the Palestinians, is locked in an unsee...