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Daily Archives: February 4, 2019

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Assimilation and the American Jewish immigrant experience

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It was one of those moments that make so much of the culture of 21st-century America cringe-worthy. Last week on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” longtime network star Tom Brokaw was criticizing supporters of U.S....
Ethiopian Jews are greeted by family members as they arrive at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, as part of an aliyah flight arranged by the Jewish Agency for Israel and sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem in June 2017. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Christian group funding incoming flights of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel

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In the aftermath of Israel approving immigration flights from Ethiopia, the first group of 80 Ethiopian newcomers will arrive on Monday evening on flights organized by the Jewish Agency and funded by the International...
Part of the barbed wire surrounding the former Buchenwald camp. Credit: Lars K Jensen/Flickr.

Amid scathing response, plans for sausage museum at site of Buchenwald canceled

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Amid an intense backlash, plans to construct a sausage museum at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, have apparently been cancelled. A group called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had released...
The delegation of ambassadors representing the United Nations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, February 2019. Credit: Courtesy.

40 UN ambassadors visit Poland and Israel on fact-finding, educational tour

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Just weeks after Israel withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) due to allegations of anti-Israel bias and falsifying the significance of Jerusalem to Jews and Christians, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon led...
Minister of Interior Security Gilad Erdan speaks during a press conference for the foreign media on a report titled “Terrorists in Suits,” Feb. 3, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Israeli report shows close, vast ties between terror and BDS organizations

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A new report by Israel’s Ministry for Strategic Affairs examined 13 international BDS organizations and discovered that senior positions were held by 30 terror activists—20 of whom who had actually spent time in prison...
Pharmicists supply patients with prescribed medical marijuana at the "Tikun Olam" store in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2016. Tikun Olam Ltd. is the first, largest and foremost supplier of medical cannabis in Israel, and is one of leading medical cannabis companies in the world. April 10, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israeli study finds cannabis oil improves autism-related symptoms in teens

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A new Israeli study shows that more than 80 percent of children with autism-related symptoms who took cannabis oil enjoyed moderate to significant improvement in their condition. A six-month study at Ben-Gurion University in the...
View of the new Tel Aviv-Jerusalem fast train seen over the HaArazim valley just outside of Jerusalem, on Sept. 25, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Spanish railway company refuses tender to build train in ‘occupied’ Jerusalem

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A Spanish railway construction company announced on Friday that it had rejected an Israeli tender to build part of the Jerusalem railway because of “the occupation of land through which will pass a section...
Intel IDC9 building in Haifa. Credit: xiquinhosilva/Wikimedia Commons.

Intel-backed Israeli startup raises $30 million

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Intel-backed Israeli startup Pliops, which manufactures storage processor technology, has raised $30 million, the company announced this week. The second funding round included cash from major sources such as Xylinx, Western Digital Capital and Intel Capital,...
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Rashida Tlaib likely a one-termer

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib may persist the next two years calling out Sen. Marco Rubio’s 800,000 Jewish constituents for dual loyalty, but not likely from Capitol Hill after 2020. Tlaib is about as vulnerable as...

Middle East book review: ‘Why Are We Still Afraid?’

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This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli society.  Towards the end of this...