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Daily Archives: July 10, 2023

Rabbi Shalom Gold in 2022. Credit: YouTube.

‘A powerful advocate for the Land of Israel’: Rabbi Gold dead at 88

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Rabbi Shalom Gold, the Brooklyn-born founder of Congregation Zichron Yosef in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, was buried at the capital's Har Hamenuchot cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Rabbi Gold was hospitalized on Friday after contracting an...
The Moroccan team in Haifa, July 2023. Credit: JCC Association of North America.

Moroccan teens join JCC Maccabi Games in Israel

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Seven Jewish teenagers from Morocco are participating in the JCC Maccabi Games now underway in Haifa, the first delegation from the North African country to take part in the international sports competition. The annual event, which is...
Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, Nov. 1956. Photo: public domain/Wikimedia

The lessons of Israel’s 1956 war

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As the modern State of Israel celebrates its 75th year, it is always important to review aspects of the past to learn lessons for the future. Israel has never wanted to go to war. The...
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini (left) meets with Adolf Hitler in 1941. Credit: German Federal Archives.

Nazism and the Palestinians

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In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini grand mufti of Jerusalem. It would prove to be a mistake. Husseini would spend his career fomenting violence against...
Teens in the Foundation Board Incubator at the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC in Houston. Courtesy: Honeycomb.

Philanthropic teens feel more passion for Judaism, survey says

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Young people who take part in charity programs feel more connections to Judaism. That’s according to a new survey from Honeycomb, a Jewish youth philanthropy resource. “By creating space to blend these passions with Jewish learning and...
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, shows then-President Hassan Rouhani models of nuclear centrifuges, April 9, 2019. Credit: Iranian President’s Office.

Any deal with Iran requires congressional approval

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Iran is pretty much a nuclear threshold state, having enriched enough uranium to build multiple nuclear bombs within a few weeks while hard at work weaponizing them in a timeframe that is so far...
Muslims raise Hamas flags on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, May 7, 2021. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

3 arrested in Nazareth for planning Hamas-inspired attacks

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Israel has arrested three suspects in the Nazareth area for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks, Israeli authorities announced on Monday. Indictments were due to be filed on Monday in the Nazareth District Court. An investigation...
A plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Knesset set to vote on judicial reform bill

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The Knesset will vote Monday evening on a bill to restrict the use of the "reasonableness" standard by the Supreme Court. The Knesset debate on the amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary is scheduled for...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then-U.K. Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove in Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Anti-BDS bill advances in House of Commons

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Britain's House of Commons passed in its second reading a bill that would bar public bodies from boycotting foreign states that the UK government hasn’t sanctioned. The measure passed by 268 votes to 70 in the 650-member...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog attends the President's Award for volunteering at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90

Herzog compares political turmoil to Roman destruction of Jerusalem

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday compared Israel’s current political conflict to those that the Jewish people went through in the period leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70...