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Daily Archives: September 25, 2019

The U.N. building in New York. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How Israel achieved the impossible at the UN

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For years, we in Israel thought that the hostile reality at the United Nations was something unalterable. We became impervious to automatic condemnations and stopped getting upset when Palestinian incitement was met with open...

A nostalgic, educational visit to London

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Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, la la la. Yes, I was born and brought up in London, albeit by parents originally from Germany, but London still has a place in my heart, and...
Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid delivers a statement during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv, Sept. 19, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90.

Lapid said to refuse to serve under Netanyahu, unity government or no

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Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid will not join a government headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Blue and White form a unity government, party...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud Party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Sept. 23, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Likud up to 32 seats, UTJ down to seven after election panel amends results

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Israel’s Central Election Committee announced late on Tuesday night that it was amending the final election results following an investigation into electoral fraud, bumping the Likud Party from 31 to 32 seats, and the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikipedia.

Erdoğan compares Israel to Nazi Germany; Netanyahu dismisses comments

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan compared Israel to Nazi Germany on Tuesday, even comparing Jews in Europe during World War II to the situation in the Gaza Strip. “The immediate establishment of an independent Palestinian...
Israel's Linoy Ashram competing in the Rhythmic Worlds in Baku, Azerbaijan. Source: Screenshot.

Israeli rhythmic gymnast qualifies for 2020 Olympics, earns six medals in world championship

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Israeli rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo after being awarded a bronze medal in the all-around world championships on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was her sixth medal of the competition. The...
People pay their respects at a memorial in front of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh to the 11 Jewish victims of a mass shooting one week earlier, Nov. 4, 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pittsburgh Jewish community reflects on turbulent year, discusses future plans

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Members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community convened a press conference late last week to talk about the Oct. 27 synagogue massacre almost a year ago and their plans moving forward. At the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, a...
Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party UK with MP Andrew Gwynne. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

British Labour Party adopts anti-Israel policies, including first formal one on BDS

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The British Labour Party voted in on Tuesday several anti-Israel policies, including what is believed to be its first formal policy regarding BDS. During the Labour Party conference in Brighton, delegates voted to support a...
Ahead of Passover, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is sponsoring gift coupons of $139.12 for 8,500 Israeli lone soldiers and soldiers from low-income families. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

Israeli soldiers to receive gift cards to purchase items for Rosh Hashanah

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Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) are providing High Holiday gift cards to some 9,000 soldiers in need and lone soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces so they can help celebrate Rosh...
Students from Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill., meet as part of a newly created club, the Association of Jewish Students. At right is special-education teacher Dr. Anne Zavell, the club sponsor, Credit: CTeen.

‘The power of young people’: Skokie teens take proactive steps to introduce Judaism to...

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Like any American high-schooler, Riva Weiss started the school year off with a flurry of activity, albeit with a new development she has been mulling over since late spring. That’s the start of the...