JTA – The new international definition of anti-Semitism that mentions Israel hatred was adopted in part to replace a similar one scrapped by the European Union, an initiator of the new text …
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6/9/16
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JTA – Israel’s former Sephardic chief rabbi said that a landmark compromise establishing a mixed-gender prayer space at the Western Wall will “weaken Jerusalem.”
Speaking …
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6/9/16
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The executive director of the Women of the Wall was detained by police after smuggling a Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Western Wall.
Lesley Sachs was …
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6/9/16
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I’ve been privileged to spend the past year studying in Jerusalem. Everywhere I go, I feel a sense of love and brotherhood with my fellow Jews. The beauty of the entire land is like nothing …
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YAACOV SCHOCHET
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5/27/16
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Time travel in Israel
[Photo gallery]
On a recent trip to Israel, I knew where I wanted to go first: 56 years into my past.
At age 16, on a Young Judaea summer tour, I attended the Aug. 3, 1960, dedication of the Hadassah Medical …
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M. Charles Bakst
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5/12/16
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TEL AVIV (JTA) – When Israel entered its 1948 War of Independence, the coastal city of Rishon Lezion was a hardscrabble farming settlement with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.
As waves of …
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Ben Sales
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5/12/16
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On a recent trip to Israel, I knew where I wanted to go first: 56 years into my past.
At age 16, on a Young Judaea summer tour, I attended the Aug. 3, 1960, dedication of the Hadassah Medical …
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M. CHARLES BAKST
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5/12/16
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“In my personal life, there are two days that are holiest in the year: Yom Kippur and Yom ha-Zikaron [Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism],” says …
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SHAI AFSAI
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4/28/16
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Police removed haredi Orthodox protesters who disturbed a women’s prayer service at the Western Wall.
The Original Women of the Wall group held morning services on Feb. 29 using a small Torah scroll they smuggled in. The …
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3/3/16
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – France has presented Israel and the Palestinians with a proposal for an international peace conference.
The French ambassador to Israel, Patrick Maisonnave, in a meeting Feb. 16 with the head of the Israeli Foreign …
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2/19/16
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