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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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Poll – Palestinians support Abbas, fear Hamas economically
by The Israel Project
Feb 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM – A new poll in the West Bank and Gaza Strip suggested that if elections were held now, Palestinians would re-elect President Mahmoud Abbas with 49.9 percent support compared to only 2...
Youlus pleads guilty
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Feb 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the Maryland rabbi who has referred to himself as the “Jewish Indiana Jones,” pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York on Thursday to mail and wire fraud. He admitted i...
Florida primary is first big showdown for the Jewish vote
by Jacob Kamaras
JointMedia News Service
Jan 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
With Newt Gingrich gaining ground on frontrunner Mitt Romney, the stage is set for a crucial Jan. 31 Republican presidential primary in Florida. By playing a significant role in that day’s outcome,...
Israelis are eager to recreate the botanical grandeur of their homeland.
by Jeffrey F. Barken
JointMedia News Service
Jan 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
ZICHRON YA’AKOV, Israel — Rare plants enthusiast Moshe Weiss often contrasts Israel’s agricultural perspective with Hawaii’s strict policies that keep nonindigenous plants from infiltrating a fragi...
Seeds of change in Israel
by Jeffrey F. Barken
JointMedia News Service
Jan 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
ZICHRON YA’AKOV, Israel — Rare plants enthusiast Moshe Weiss often contrasts Israel’s agricultural perspective with Hawaii’s strict policies that keep nonindigenous plants from infiltrating a fragi...
Israelis hint at summit
by The Israel Project TIP Sheet
Jan 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Jerusalem – Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators appeared to have made slight progress in fragile talks hosted in Jordan, with the two sides expected to meet again January 25 with a possible l...
Lew replaces Daley at White House
by staff and wire reports
Jan 10, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Jacob “Jack” Lew has been tapped by President Barack Obama to become the next White House chief of staff. Lew, 56 and an Orthodox Jew, will be the second Jewish chief of staff in this administratio...
Jewish groups angry at Santorum for ignoring other faiths
by JNS
Jan 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is under fire for telling Boston radio listeners last Thursday that “we always need a Jesus guy” in the campaign, the Jerusalem Post reported. Variou...
Apple could open Israeli center and acquire Israeli company
by JointMedia News Service
Dec 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Apple and Israel are in business. According to the Israel Business News, Apple Inc. plans to open a development center in Israel focusing on semiconductors. This was announced after the Israeli f...
Ads upset American Jews
by The Jewish Channel
For the Chronicle
Dec 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
An Israeli government ad campaign, encouraging expatriate Israelis to return the Jewish state, was withdrawn last week after igniting a furor among American Jews who found the ads demean American J...