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Daily Archives: May 29, 2019

First Priority: Removing Indoctrination Before Economics

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The JERUSALEM POST OF MAY 29TH,2019 , titled “KUSHNER, GREENBLATT EXPECTED TO VISIT MIDDLE EAST THIS WEEK” reported that US Presidential envoys Kushner and Greenblatt are “expected to discuss only the economic component” of...
Photo by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

An American Jew’s disdain for Europe

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Alan Dershowitz is a distinguished law professor emeritus at Harvard University and a passionate defender of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Almost five years ago he published an article in the Jerusalem...
U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Middle East peace can’t be bought. But can Trump change the conversation?

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If the Trump administration’s forlorn hope for restarting Middle East peace negotiations wasn’t already facing long odds, this week’s political shenanigans in Israel further complicated things. Whether or not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu miraculously...
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, seen after their announcement in a press conference in Tel Aviv on Dec. 29, 2018, of the formation of a new political party. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

As elections loom, Bennett and Shaked get set to make a comeback

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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition talks come down to the wire, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked met in Tel Aviv to plan out their course should new elections...
Egils Levits. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Ex-Soviet dissident with Jewish roots elected Latvia’s president

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A Soviet dissident with Jewish roots was elected Monday as Latvia’s president. A majority of 61 lawmakers out of 100 in the Latvian parliament elected Egils Levits, 63, to the post, which is a largely...
King Abdullah of Jordan. Credit: Chatham House.

Jordanian king to Kushner: Palestinian state only possible on pre-1967 lines

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Jordanian King Abdullah told White House senior adviser and presidential son-in law Jared Kushner on Wednesday that a Palestinian state can only be created along the border lines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War. “His...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend an official state dinner with Argentian president Mauricio Macri and his wife at the San Martin palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 12, 2017. Photo by Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office.

Sara Netanyahu agrees to plea deal in catering affair

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, agreed to a plea bargain on Wednesday in a fraud case against her and will be fined NIS 55,000 ($15,00). The state prosecution had originally charged her with...
Michael Freilich, former editor-in-chief of a Jewish magazine in Antwerp, was elected to the Belgian federal parliament on May 26, 2019. Credit: EJP.

First Orthodox Jew elected to serve in Belgian parliament

BRUSSELS—38-year-old Michael Freilich, former editor-in-chief of Joods Actueel in Antwerp, a Jewish magazine founded by his grandfather Louis Davids, was elected to a seat in the Belgian parliament on Sunday. Freilich, who ran on the list of...
A meeting of rabbis associated with the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, in Ulm, Germany on Tuesday, May 29, 2019. Photo: EJP.

European rabbis take to the streets in Ulm, Germany

BERLIN—Forty rabbis from all over Europe walked the streets of the German city of Ulm on Tuesday, a couple of days after Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, advised Jews against wearing kipot, or skullcaps, in...
Dari Carlebach (left), daughter of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and Yael Eckstein, daughter of the late Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, examine damage by fire to nearly 50 homes in moshav Mevo Modi’im, May 27, 2019. Credit: IFCJ.

International Fellowship raises $275,000 for moshav that lost homes to fire

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The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has mobilized to raise more than 1 million shekels (about $275,000) in emergency assistance for residents of moshav Mevo Modi’im, a small agricultural community west of Jerusalem near the...