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Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) speaking on the floor of the House about a bill to fund the Iron Dome missile-defense system to Israel. Source: Screenshot/C-SPAN.

After rough few days, Iron Dome funding prevails, but not without partisan finger-pointing

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Pro-Israel Democrats scrambled on Thursday to restore approximately $1 billion to help fund the replenishment of Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system after funding was stripped earlier this week from the House of Representatives’ legislation...
The U.S. Capitol building. Credit: Tupungato/Shutterstock.

Bennett, Gantz thank US after lawmakers overwhelmingly approve Iron Dome funding

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz posted messages of thanks to the United States minutes after the House of Representatives voted in favor of supplying Israel with $1 billion worth...

The Value of Your Actions and the Concept of Forgiveness

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Dear reader, by the time this piece reaches you, the High Jewish Holy Days will be over. It is already good enough if they have served as an excuse to meet our dearest after such...

Eva Lanska’s Award-Winning Film “Little French Fish” Premiered on ShortsTV in Europe on Amazon...

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London-based filmmaker Eva Lanska’s award-winning drama short Little French Fish held its European premiere on leading short movie entertainment network ShortsTV on September 19, 2021. The film first premiered on ShortsTV in North America on September 9, 2021 on DirecTV, AT&T...

American Jewish University Awarded Reimagine Grant by Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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Today, American Jewish University (AJU) announced that its new program, the Jewish Education Excellence Project: Supporting Teachers for Healthy Schools, has received a generous grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles (The Foundation). The...
Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B’Nefesh, Marty and Pearl Hershkovitz, and Marc Rosenberg, VP of Diaspora Partnerships at Nefesh B’Nefesh together with IZI grant recipients. Credit: Yonit Schiller

Nefesh B’Nefesh Presents 2021 ‘Initiative for Zionist Innovation’ Grants to Seven Community-Building Olim

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Nefesh B’Nefesh, who works in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF-USA to facilitate Aliyah from North America, has chosen seven recipients for...

Mainstream Democrats, Bowing to Progressives, Let Israel Down

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It was Congress’s first certain body blow to American Jews in modern times, though Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib may feel that they were denied a chance to achieve it on Yom Kippur and...
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Credit: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock.

How a budget standoff demonstrated the partisan split over Israel

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The Iron Dome missile-defense system has long been one of the least controversial aspects of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Funding for the idea was approved in principle by the George W. Bush administration in 2007...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, June 2021. Source: Benny Gantz/Twitter.

Gantz holds call with Austin to discuss how to halt Iran nuclear program

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz held a call with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday, said Gantz’s office in a statement. The defense ministers “discussed regional developments, including the need to stop the...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Oct. 4, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

‘Good riddance, Merkel,’ says Jewish-German newspaper publisher

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Rafael Korenzecher, publisher of the conservative Germany Jewish monthly, Jüdische Rundschau, does not spare any nicety in his parting words to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose successor will be determined after the German federal elections on Sept....