My husband Jerry thinks it’s an adventure to have a stopover or two when he flies. His best flight yet was his two stop trip to Israel. He got to visit Romania, the birthplace of his dad. It …
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By Judy Joszef
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7/8/15
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Reuters reports that the Obama administration has been taking the Iranian side regarding a long list of violations to the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) as well as to U.N. Security Council …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/8/15
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Back in 2003, as some readers will recall all too clearly, the noted historian Tony Judt penned a searing critique of Israel in the New York Review of Books. Titled “Israel: The …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/8/15
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An angel walked among us. Now he is no more. Malachi — My Angel — Rosenfeld was riding in a car with his buddies, on their way home from a basketball meet, when he was shot at by a …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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7/8/15
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With the annual observance of the destruction of our two sacred Temples now underway, I bring to your attention several new literary works detailing the significance of this time of year in …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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7/6/15
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It’s safe to say that in the coming weeks, you’ll be reading a great deal about the new memoir, “Ally,” authored by Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/25/15
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My first reaction to the latest controversial Meretz-sponsored bill in the Israeli parliament was, mark of Cain.
The original meaning of the phrase in Genesis is a sign of safety and protection …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/25/15
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to publicly rebuke former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren’s remarks that President Obama abandoned Israel by …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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6/24/15
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A new study has found that many of the children who were educated in Nazi Germany retained, for the rest of their lives, the anti-Semitic attitudes they learned in school. What does that portend …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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6/24/15
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Although Israel has been providing free medical treatment to Syrian refugees as well as Palestinians from the disputed territories and even from Gaza, the U.N. …
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By Abraham H. Miller, JNS.org
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6/24/15
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