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Daily Archives: May 11, 2023

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at a protest against the government's judicial reform plan outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. Feb. 13, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Lapid: Time to end Gaza operation

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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Thursday morning that Israel should unilaterally end its military operation against Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Gaza Strip. “I think it’s time to pack up, this is...
The Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. On the screen is Tor Wennesland, special coordinator for the Middle East peace process. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

UN Security Council holds another emergency meeting on Israel-Gaza hostilities

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As the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group launched more than 400 rockets from Gaza toward Israel on Wednesday, nine ambassadors to the United Nations, mainly from Africa and southeast Asia, landed safely in Tel...
Sara Wolkenfeld, (center) chief learning officer of Sefaria. Credit: Courtesy.

In its bat mitzvah year, Sefaria executive reflects on the online Jewish library’s ubiquity

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It started as an online digital copy of the Hebrew Bible. Today, Sefaria has thousands of biblical and rabbinic texts, which 700,000 people access monthly, according to Sara Wolkenfeld, the nonprofit’s chief learning officer. Sefaria...
From left: Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria; Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder; and Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt. Credit: Conference of European Rabbis.

Conference of European Rabbis to open new Munich headquarters

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The Conference of European Rabbis, which represents about 1,000 Orthodox European rabbis, will open a new Center for Jewish Life in the Bavarian capital of Munich. The German state will fund the new building,...