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Ada & Allison “In Droyzn is Finster” (It’s dark outside)

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בלומינגטאָנער טאַלאַנטן אַדה־רבקה העטקאָ און אַליסאָן פּאָזנער זינגען דאָס פאָלקסליד “אין דרויסן איז פינצטער” בלומינגטאָן, אינדיאַנאַ⁠דעם 14טן אַפּריל 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=1S0VtsoknEA
Yehudit Abrams, founder of MonitHer.

Home breast self-exam device developed by Israeli wins $360,000 WeWork award

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The Jerusalem based MonitHer home breast-exam system won the $360,000 grand prize at the WeWork Creator Awards on June 20, which was attended by 5,000 people. The handheld ultrasound system enables women to monitor their...
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, makes a rare public appearance in a suburb of Beirut in July 2008. Credit: Ferran Queved/Flash90.

Hezbollah declares ‘victory’ in southern Syria amid ceasefire reports

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared a “major victory” over forces “supported by the United States and Israel” amid unconfirmed ceasefire reports in southern Syria between rebel groups and forces loyal to the Syrian government. “We...
By Molly Adams from USA (May Day - Workers Strike 2017) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Bravo, Americans, for standing up for the children!

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The recent furore over Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents and placing them in enclosures that have been likened to cages, seems in the end to have brought out the...

Another step to the left for Democrats

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t on her way to Congress because of her hostility to the State of Israel. The upset victory of a Democratic Socialist over one of the highest ranking Democrats in Congress, as...
By Arjunaraoc [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Jewish events in Europe for the next 3 months

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Cultures      Arts Festival de culture juive de Cracovie Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow du 22 Juin au 1 Juil Cracovie      Arts Summer Art Camp 2018 The Israel Museum du 1 Juil au 26 Août Jerusalem      Cinéma Festival du film juif de Berlin Festival du film juif de...

This weekend, join us to resist in the streets at Families Belong Together rallies...

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Dear readers: The news this week has made us sick to our stomachs — massive immigrant detention camps, the Supreme Court’s Muslim Ban and JANUS decisions, Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court, and...

Survivor Ruth Hohberg addresses CBI Men in San Diego July 18

Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled Ruth Hohberg as guest speaker at the July 18 Dinner Forum beginning at 6:30 p.m. Her presentation will cover Getting Here, an Odyssey through WWII recounting some of the memories...
Photo by Adam Jones, Via Fkicr

Post-election Turkey: The birth of an Islamist-nationalist alliance

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Four decades after they emerged as marginal parties in the 1970s, Turkey’s militant Islamists and ultranationalists won a combined 53.6% of the national vote and 57% of parliamentary seats. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said...
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish-Jewish relations step back from the brink

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Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras. No longer will a historian or journalist or any member...