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Air Force pilots throw their hats in the air in celebration at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the official IAF flight course (Hatzerim Air Base, Negev Desert), Dec. 29, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Lt. ‘Yod’ first Israeli Air Force pilot of Ethiopian heritage

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Lt. “Yod” will officially become the Israeli Air Force’s first pilot of Ethiopian heritage when he completes the elite pilots’ course on Wednesday. The new pilot’s name could not be released, due to security concerns. As...
Tammuz Dubnov, at left

Immigrant stories told at New Americans Museum

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Immigrants Tammuz Dubnov and Gad Shaanan from Israel and Michel Cohen of Mexico are among 76 New Americans who are featured in an innovative exhibition that was created by the staff of the San Diego...
A monument of Maimonides in Córdoba, Spain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New exhibit on Maimonides celebrates renowned Jewish scholar with internationally accrued collection

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An exhibit showcasing original manuscripts and writings of one of Judaism’s most revered rabbis is opening at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Maimonides, otherwise known as the Rambam or Moshe Ben Maimon, is one of...
Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of Chabad of Chico, Calif., has been providing comfort and support to those who lost their homes, vehicles and possessions to fires that ravaged Northern California in November 2018. Credit: Chabad of Chico.

After the fires: Californians start to pick up the pieces of their lives

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A little more than a month after a brush fire raced through the Northern California countryside on its way to becoming one of the deadliest and costliest wildfires in U.S. history, people from Paradise,...

Edirne – Andrinopolis

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Keridos Amigos i mis Amigitas Buenos diyas ! Vos auguro una demanyanada klara i ermoza en este diya de Mierkoles, el 12 de Decembre 2018. Estan las 6.oo de la demanyana i dayinda no amanesyo. Las...
The 30-week-old son of Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran is cradled in a prayer shawl by his grandfather during his funeral at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem on Dec. 12, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Hundreds attend funeral for premature baby murdered by Arab drive-by shooter

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Some 300 mourners huddled under umbrellas in the steadily falling rain at Jerusalem’s ancient Mount of Olives cemetery on Wednesday night to lay to rest the newborn boy whose mother was shot Sunday night...
“Boycott Israel” is spray-painted on the street sign marking the Yitzhak Rabin Garden in Paris. Aug. 28, 2017. Photo by Serge Attal/Flash90.

Jews in EU see anti-Zionism as form of anti-Semitism

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European Jews increasingly see anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism according to a report released earlier this week by the European Union, Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, wrote in an op-ed published on Tuesday in The Wall...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, incoming House Democrat representing Queens, N.Y. Credit: Ocasio-Cortez campaign.

Is Ocasio-Cortez really Jewish?

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At a time when DNA tests are a national craze, as well as source of political controversy, we shouldn’t be surprised about claims of Jewish identity from anyone. But when they come from someone...
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses guests at the second Hanukkah party the White House hosted on Dec. 6, 2018. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

Father of daughter killed in Parkland shooting lights White House menorah

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WASHINGTON–Ten months after losing their daughter Meadow in the mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Andrew Pollack and his family stood alongside U.S. President Donald Trump as he lit...
Congresswoman-elect Donna Shalala (D-Fla.). Credit: Donna Shalala via Facebook.

At 77, Donna Shalala to bring decades of experience working with Israel to Congress

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Donna Shalala, 77, is no stranger to politics or the relationship between the United States and Israel. She served as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, where she traveled to...