BDS activists who think they are succeeding in isolating the State of Israel aren’t paying attention. On Sunday, reports surfaced that negotiations surrounding a gas pipeline to connect …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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11/30/18
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The outpouring of grief over last month’s massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue has sparked a degree of counterintuitive hope. Just maybe, the eternal …
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By Shalom Lipner, JTA
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11/13/18
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A site on NYU’s campus in Greenwich Village. Jonathan71/WikiCommons
In the aftermath of the deadliest attack in American Jewish history, a measure calling on New York …
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By Jackson Richman, JNS
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11/7/18
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The day after the killings, a man who brings Jewish boys into the covenant and escorts the Jewish dead to their final resting place finally got to fulfill the mitzvah of shmira, …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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10/31/18
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When a gunman entered The Tree of Life Congregation and killed 11 worshippers on Saturday, he also struck at the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community — the neighborhood of Squirrel …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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10/31/18
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He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool,” opines one character about another in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. It is an …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/31/18
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In August, when I was speaking at a synagogue in East Hampton about a rising tide of anti-Semitism and intolerance, a congregant stood to tell me that the number of right-wing …
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By Jonathan Weisman
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10/31/18
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It was a gray and drizzly day in Pittsburgh, usually a beautiful place, green and fresh, when a synagogue was hit at 9:45 am on Saturday, yet another target of that inexhaustible strain that is …
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By Fiamma Nirenstein
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10/31/18
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Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau didn’t intend to say anything that would wound American Jews in the wake of the mass slaughter at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life - Or …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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10/31/18
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The controversial Canary Mission — an anonymous watchdog group that exposes organizations, academics and activists who demonize Israel on campuses — recently came under fire when the San …
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By Jackson Richman and Alex Traiman, JNS
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10/29/18
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