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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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Israeli nonprofit gives child sex offenders ‘another chance’
by Maxine Dovere/JNS.org
Jul 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
On June 23, federal judge Tanya Walton Pratt upheld an Indiana law banning registered sex offenders from accessing Facebook and other forms of social media used by children—who, statistically speak...
Hip-hop mogul Simmons defends Farrakhan-Foxman comparison at Jerusalem conference
by Rachel Marder/JNS
Jun 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM­–Though hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons came to Israel last week to promote Muslim-Jewish dialogue, the end of his trip was marred by comments he made likening Nation of Islam leader Louis ...
Netanyahu draws doodle for Google chairman
by JNS
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Google Executive Chairman Eric E. Schmidt on Tuesday and gave him a Google doodle he had drawn from suggestions by Israeli Web surfers. In order to emp...
Hebrew National lawsuit ‘outrageously false’
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor’s note: The following is a prepared statement by Rabbi Ayeh Ralbag, rabbinical coordinator of the Brooklyn-based Triangle-K kosher certification authority, which oversees Hebrew National pr...
Traveling the U.S.-Israel high tech ‘highway’
by Maxine Dovere
JointMedia News Service
Jun 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — It was standing room only at the Israel Business Forum’s Panel presentation focused on Israeli start-ups held May 22 in the midtown offices of Morgan Stanley, with investors and entrepre...
In child abuse cases, law enforcement blesses the obstruction of justice
by Ed Koch
JointMedia News Service
May 15, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
The crime of sexually abusing a child, including adolescents and teens, is so heinous that the public is immediately shocked and angered. For a number of years, we have read of sex acts involving C...
Keynote speaker Olmert doubles as persona non grata
by Jacob Kamaras
JointMedia News Service
May 02, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, told the crowd at Sunday’s Jerusalem Post Conference in New York City that he didn’t “want to walk into a minefield,” but that didn’t stop...
Israelis protest in support of Syrian people
by The Israel Project
Apr 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV – Several hundred protestors in Tel Aviv showed their support for ordinary Syrians, demanding international intervention to put a stop to the Syrian government’s suppression of pro-democra...
Future of Jewish state lies in its schools
by Justin Jacobs
Chronicle Correspondent
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — The future of any nation is tough to predict. And Israel is not just any nation. The intricacies of the self-proclaimed only democracy in the Middle East are staggering: the struggle to...
Ambassador: Agreement for Darfur can work despite hurdles
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Mar 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Despite some positive signs for the latest negotiated peace agreement in Darfur, Ambassador Dane F. Smith Jr. warned more must be accomplished before the deal can lead to a lasting peace in the war...