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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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Israel says war with Hamas achieved aims, but critics disagree
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jan 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — With a cease-fire in place, Israelis are asking whether the 22-day war against Hamas in Gaza achieved its aims. The government argues that the overwhelming victory in the field will adv...
Obama pushes ahead with plan for new black- Jewish alliance
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Jan 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s pledge to use his presidency to revive the black-Jewish alliance starts on Day (minus) One — the day before he becomes president. The president-elect’s inaugural committ...
The Jewish hot spots for the inauguration
by Eric Fingerhut
JTA
Jan 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Revelers in Washington will have plenty of places to celebrate Barack Obama’s swearing-in, including an event organized by some leading Jewish organizations and a trio of unofficial Je...
Some Israelis go back to school as rocket fire declines
by Dina Kraft
JTA
Jan 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
ASHDOD, Israel — In a math class being held in a bomb shelter in this embattled city, Israeli 11th-graders scribble equations into their notebooks and try not to think about war. “This is about fee...
Gaza war to have fallout for Egypt, Iran
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jan 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — With Israel’s war in Gaza in its third week, it’s clear the outcome could have far-reaching regional implications. If the operation against Hamas is successful, Israel will have struck ...
Will Obama, lawmakers listen to liberal pro-Israel groups’ criticism of Gaza operation?
by Eric Fingerhut
JTA
Jan 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — In the first sign of a post-election struggle to set the American Jewish community’s Middle East agenda, a quartet of liberal pro-Israel advocacy groups is criticizing Jerusalem’s deci...
Organizers of British anti-war protests turn eye toward Gaza
by Daphna Vardi
JTA
Jan 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
LONDON — When more than 1 million people marched in central London five years ago to protest against the Iraq wars, it was the biggest demonstration ever seen in the British capital. Now the Stop t...
For visiting Americans, a brush with terror in Sderot
by Dina Craft
JTA
Jan 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
SDEROT, Israel — American Jewish leaders on a solidarity visit to this besieged southern Israel city learned quickly what life was like under fire. On Sunday, when a Code Red alert was sounded, th...
Global pain
Madoff scheme deals new hit to FSU Jews
by By Grant Slater and Jacob Berkman
JTA
Dec 31, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
MOSCOW — The Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is the latest in a string of financial blows to Jewish aid programs in the former Soviet Union, wiping out a major foundation that was the p...
Jewish life flourishes where Kazakh gulag once stood
by By Michael J. Jordan
JTA
Dec 31, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan — Liza Luchanskiy was born to a poor, Yiddish-speaking family in Berdichev, the historic, heavily Jewish city deep in the Pale of Settlement. Lured by Soviet promises of equal...