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Daily Archives: September 3, 2019

UNRWA ifrågasätter aldrig huruvida skolböcker från Palestinska myndigheten (PA) bör användas av ett FN-organ...

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UNRWA: s generaldirektör Pierre Krahenbuhl deltar på en nyhetskonferens i slutet av ett toppmöte för att hantera den palestinska UNWRA-finansieringskrisen vid U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) huvudkontor i Rom, Italien 15 mars 2018. Det...
A production photo from the Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Victor Nechay / ProperPix.

Yiddish and Other Languages

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I speak French with my head and Yiddish with my heart. I learned French in school and made it my field of study and my profession. I know it well enough to call myself functionally...
Front entrance to the main parking lot at Clovis Community College in Fresno, Calif., Sept. 16, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pro-Israel and Jewish groups criticize Fresno event featuring vitriolic anti-Semitic speaker

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Jewish and pro-Israel groups have rallied against an upcoming event at Clovis Community College (CCC) in California featuring Alison Weir, an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activist and writer that even anti-Israel groups such as Jewish Voice...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at SXSW 2019. Credit: Flickr.

Ocasio-Cortez points finger at Netanyahu, accusing him of ‘unjust,’ ‘inhumane policies’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of enacting “unjust and inhumane policies.” “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” she told reporters. “To conflate...
Yamina Party leader Ayelet Shaked at the Conference of the Manufacturers Association in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Shaked: Notice that Likud attacks Lapid, but not Gantz

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The Likud is “careful to attack” Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid, but not party leader Benny Gantz, Yamina Party leader said on Monday, indicating that Likud is planning on a coalition deal...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Sept. 1, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu officially welcomes Ethiopian prime minister to Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday in a formal ceremony at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, during which a bilateral declaration was signed by the countries’...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu and Zehut Party leader Moshe Feiglin hold a joint press conference at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan on Aug. 29, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Zehut members vote 3-1 to accept Likud deal and bow out of Knesset race

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Zehut Party members voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to accept a deal with the Likud Party, according to which the libertarian-leaning party would end its Knesset bid in exchange for the ruling party taking on...
Andrzej Duda speaks in the town of Lubartów during the 2015 Polish presidential election campaign, March 31, 2015. Photo: Radosław Czarnecki via Wikimedia Commons.

The Holocaust is ‘part of our national memory,’ says Polish president

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Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland and the world changed forever. To mark the outbreak of World War II, high-level dignitaries from 40 countries traveled to Warsaw, Poland, to participate in special memorial events...
Lonah Chemtai-Salpeter. Credit: Israel Athletic Association.

Israeli Lonah Chemtai-Salpeter smashes European women’s 10-km record

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Israeli distance runner Lonah Chemtai-Salpeter continues to smash records—on Sunday, she clocked a time of 30:04 in the Tilburg Ten Miles race in the Dutch city of Tilburg, cutting a jaw-dropping 17 seconds off the European...
Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at Palphot printing house in Karnei Shomron in preparation for Israel’s upcoming general elections, Aug. 28, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

How Israeli elections work … if they work

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In less than three weeks, Israelis will head to the polls for their second national election in just six months. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inability to form a majority coalition following the April...