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Daily Archives: February 24, 2020

Remembering Ofra Haza in song and tears

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Twenty years ago, the voice of one of Israel’s most remarkable performers was silenced. On Feb. 23, 2000, Ofra Haza died at the age of 42. Haza left a singular legacy for her ability...

Las Kuklas

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LAS FAMOZAS MATRIOUSHKAS  (o BABOUSHKAS) TRADISYONALAS RUSAS Son figurinas de tavla kortadas de manera ke  entren una ariento de la otra … 7 deyas en total ke van aminguandosen.  Se desparten en la talya de...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign rally in Iowa on Nov. 10, 2019. Source: Facebook.

Will Bernie turn Jews into Trump supporters?

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This is a scary moment for centrist and pro-Israel Democrats. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s overwhelming victory in the Nevada caucuses, coupled with the disastrous debut of Michael Bloomberg in last week’s Las Vegas debate, has...
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus being stripped of rank in the French military (“Le traître : Dégradation d’Alfred Dreyfus”), Jan. 13, 1895. Credit: Henri Meyer, National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

J’Accuse! Our Dreyfus and theirs

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Two months after its shellacking in the United Kingdom’s general elections, the Labour Party continues to remind British voters of why they chose the “anyone-but-Jeremy-Corbyn” option. Last week, it was the turn of John McDonnell—Corbyn’s...

The Overriding Strategic Threat: Donald Trump, American “Mass” And Nuclear War

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“The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever the constitutional State should succumb to a fit...
The JCC Metrowest in West Orange, N.J. Source: Google Maps Screenshot.

A dozen-plus JCCs in New York, New Jersey evacuated due to bomb threats

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A Jewish community center in Albany, N.Y., and another in West Orange, N.J., were among as many as 19 JCCs that reported bomb threats on Sunday. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited the Sidney Albert...
A ball of fire and smoke rises above buildings during Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip after a slew of 14 rockets were launched towards southern Israel, on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

55,000 students miss school as rockets rain down on southern Israel

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At least 14 Palestinian rockets rained down on southwestern Israel on Monday, with one striking and damaging a playground in the town of Sderot and another shattering a car windshield in Nir Am. Twelve of...
Yair Lapid of the Blue and White Party talks to supporters at an election campaign event in Herzliya on Sept. 4, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Lapid reprimands Belgian ambassador over anti-Semitic carnival in Aalst

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Blue and White Party No. 2 MK Yair Lapid said on Sunday that he had reprimanded Belgian Ambassador to Israel Olivier Belle regarding an anti-Semitic parade in Belgium over the weekend. “I had a long...
The Jordanian parliament approving a bill to ban natural gas imports from Israel on Jan. 19, 2020. Source: Jordanian parliament via Facebook.

Jordanian MP: ‘I dare any lawyer, engineer or doctor to say hello to a...

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A Jordanian MP said during a television interview last week that “all Arab peoples completely reject” U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan and called for the region’s people to pressure their governments to...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, at the annual J Street Conference in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2019. Credit: Michael Brochstein/Split Stone Media.

Sanders says he will skip AIPAC conference, pro-Israel lobby group calls move ‘shameful’

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, announced on Sunday that he will skip the annual AIPAC Policy Conference next week. “The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security....