JERUSALEM — The new U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, presented his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, one week before a visit there by President Trump and celebrations …
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5/17/17
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Messages casting doubt on the election results started circulating among Orthodox Jewish social media accounts by Wednesday morning and continued throughout the weekend, pausing only for …
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By Shira Hanau, JTA
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11/9/20
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By any standards, it was an extraordinary week for U.S.-Israel relations—and that was before President Donald Trump even arrived in Israel for his official visit.
It began with what sounded …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/18/17
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled two “unforgettable” moments with President-elect Joe Biden.
The first is a conversation after Netanyahu’s father died in 2012, …
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By Combined Sources
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11/11/20
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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the prominent modern Orthodox rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism, said he is not the rabbi who gave the first daughter and her husband, Jared …
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JTA
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5/21/17
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A Jewish woman walks into the post office to buy Chanukah stamps for her holiday cards.
The person behind the counter asks, “What denominations?”
The Jewish woman responds, …
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By David Kaufman
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12/20/17
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On Joe Biden’s first day …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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11/11/20
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Litigation surrounding the 2020 presidential election is set to continue for a while, and the state legislatures do not need to report their official results until Dec. 8. A constitutional …
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By Josh Hammer
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11/11/20
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In the midst of the upheaval regarding President Trump’s travel pause, there was one Trump action that received little news coverage and what it did get was unfairly negative …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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2/8/17
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When President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, many foreign policy experts called it a blunder.
It could spark a conflagration of violence in the city, they said. It …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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12/20/17
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