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Daily Archives: November 20, 2019

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the 2019 J Street National Conference. Source: J Street via Flickr.

Why do American Jews oppose an Israeli consensus on settlements?

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When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week that the United States no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be in violation of international law, most Israelis were clearly pleased....

Let’s welcome them into our midst

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According to the Wikipedia, ” the Sephardic Bnei Anusim are the children of the converted Spanish Jews to define the comtemporary Christian descendants of an estimated quarter of a million 15th-century Sephardi Jews who were...
British Jewish actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Sacha Baron Cohen to receive award for use of comedy to expose racism, anti-Semitism

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British Jewish actor Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the International Leadership Award by the Anti-Defamation League for his use of comedy to expose racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Tuesday. The actor, comedian and...
Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

No breakthrough in last-minute meeting between Netanyahu and Gantz

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A last-minute effort on Tuesday night by Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a unity government agreement ended with no breakthrough. Following the meeting, which lasted...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gush Etzion Regional Council chairman Shlomo Ne'eman and Jordan Valley Regional Council chairman David Elchiani visit Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion on Nov. 19, 2019. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Netanyahu: US settlement policy shift ‘fixes a historic wrong’

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During a visit to the town of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the U.S. administration’s policy reversal on Judea and Samaria as a “huge achievement” that “fixed...
A women's challah bake in Cali, Colombia. Credit: The Shabbat Project.

Annual Shabbat Project sees unprecedented participation in US, Israel and worldwide

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The seventh annual international Shabbat Project reached 1,685 cities and 106 countries across the world this year, attracting record numbers of participants in many of those cities. The 2019 Shabbat Project that took place from...
Posters of Hezbollah’s flag and the terrorist group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut. Credit: Al Aan Arabic Television via Wikimedia Commons.

Members of Congress send bipartisan letter to UN, urging it to confront Hezbollah

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A bipartisan group of 240 members of Congress have sent a letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, calling on the international community to confront the terrorist group Hezbollah. More than 13 years ago, the...
The Israel Air Force and jets from the United States, Germany, Italy and Greece take part in the international Blue Flag drill held from Nov. 3 to Nov. 14, 2019, at Uvda Air Force Base, north of Eilat. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Israel’s Blue Flag international air-force drill was ‘most advanced’ to date

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Israel completed its fourth international air exercise in southern Israel, Blue Flag 2019, earlier this month—a drill that planners have described as being the most advanced of its kind to date. Towards the end of the...
Lebanese protesters in Beirut on Oct. 18, 2019. Credit: Shahen Books via Wikimedia Commons.

Washington holding $100 million in aid to Lebanon, says State Department official

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The White House is holding up more than $100 million in security aid to Lebanon, a senior U.S. State Department official said, according to an AFP report on Tuesday. U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David...
An Israeli F-15I fighter jet releases flares during a graduation ceremony of new Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force base near the southern city of Beersheba, Dec. 27, 2012. Photo by Flash90.

Israel strikes dozens of Syrian targets after rocket attack, preps for reprisals

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Israel struck dozens of targets in Syria early on Wednesday in retaliation for the firing of four rockets from Syria at the Golan Heights and Galilee by Iranian forces the day before, according to the Israeli...