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<i>Dov Lipman</i>
American-born MK on U.S. speaking tour
Dov Lipman is coming to the United States this week for the first time without a U.S. passport. As a precondition for joining the Israeli government as a Member of Knesset, Lipman, 41, had to make ...
Apr 19, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> A Qassam rocket in Sderot. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Israel attacked by Gaza rockets during Obama visit
(JNS.org ) Four Gaza rockets were fired at Israel on Thursday, with two of them landing in the often rocket-battered city of Sderot, during the second day of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit t...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>​Benjamin Netanyahu (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Next Israeli government formed after 39 days of negotiation
(JNS.org ) At the culmination of a long, complex and nerve-wracking negotiation — lasting a whopping 39 days — the coalition agreements that will finalize the(next Israeli government have come to...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Flag of Norway. The Norwegian state-owned station, NRK, found that Norway gives the PA about 300 million kroner a year ($52,628,700) and directly correlated this to the PA’s incitement of hatred and glorification of terrorism. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Norway questions funding of PA after Palestinian Media Watch findings
Recent findings by Palestinian Media Watch on the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) glorification of terrorism against Israel were featured in a news report by a television station in Norway, one of th...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israel and Turkey seek to reconcile ahead of Obama’s visit
Israeli and Turkish officials have been engaging in dialogue over the past few weeks, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. The head of Israel’s National Security Council recently met with a high-ranki...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>President Barack Obama</i>
Israel to award Obama with medal of distinction
Israeli President Shimon Peres has announced that he will award U.S. President Barack Obama the Presidential Medal of Distinction during his upcoming visit, the Associated Press reported. Pe...
Feb 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Pope Benedict XVI (AFP)</i>
Benedict will be the first pope in over six centuries to voluntarily resign
Citing advancing age and diminished energy, Pope Benedict XVI will reportedly become the first pope in 600 years to voluntarily resign from the post. The 85-year-old pontiff announced that he ...
Feb 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Gershom Gorenberg</i>
Gorenberg: Israel’s election a step in right direction, but not far enough
(This is a revised version of the story that appeared in this week's Chronicle, and contains the names of the sponsors of the program) You might think, given the title of Gershom Gorenberg’s upc...
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>President Barack Obama (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Obama will visit Israel for first time as president
White House officials said Tuesday that President Barack Obama, whose relationship with Israel routinely garners attention due to his reported tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plans ...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gregg Roman, community relations director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, translates a live speech by Yair Lapid , leader of the Yesh Atid party in Israel, during an Israel Election Night party Tuesday at the Federation office in Oakland. Yesh Atid finished a surprisingly strong second in the voting Tuesday, which could make Lapid a major player as the next government of Israel is put together. (Chronicle photo by Ohad Cadji)</i>
Bibi’s party wins Knesset vote with surprisingly slim margin
(Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the story posted last night and contains additions throughout.) Israeli voters showed again Tuesday just how unpredictable they could be. Political...
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jack Lew
Jack Lew, Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in U.S. government history
Jack Lew, President Obama’s current chief of staff and his pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in the history of the U.S. government. It’s a distinction that imposes so...
Jan 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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First snow for new Ethiopian immigrants in Israel
Hundreds of Ethiopian olim (immigrants), who are living in the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) absorption centers in Safed, experienced snow this week for the first time. The children pictured hea...
Jan 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stormy weather brings Tel Aviv to standstill
Torrential rain and strong winds have brought much of Tel Aviv, Israel's business hub, to a standstill, as the stormy weather of late in Israel continues. Roads and highways have been affected and ...
Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reform, Conservative camp systems get grant to grow specialty staff training
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
In their first-ever programmatic partnership, the Conservative movement’s National Ramah Commission and the Union for Reform Judaism’s Camping Movement will be engaging in a joint initiative to dev...
The future of … the rabbinate
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Mar 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
One might call Howard Cohen a “freelance” rabbi. Cohen, who lives in Vermont, does not have a traditional pulpit, but he is available for hire to lead High Holy Day and Shabbat services, officiate...
Suspects include former paratroopers
by JointMedia News Service
Mar 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Four people were killed at a Jewish school shooting on Monday in Toulouse, France, sending shockwaves throughout the global Jewish community. An anonymous, black-clad gunman on a motorcycle stopped...
Federation shocked at terror attack in France
Mar 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh expressed shock and outrage at the tragic terror attack on a Jewish school in southern France that has left at least four dead, including three children....
Israel’s 'Iron Dome' performed well — IDF
by The Israel Project
Mar 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel and Gazan militants have apparently agreed to an Egypt-brokered cease-fire, the Israeli daily Haaretz has reported. According to the news report, the deal was expected to take effect at 1 a...
The future of ... women
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Mar 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
In 1974, when Sara Rae Perman began her training to become a rabbi, 12 out of 60 of her classmates at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion were women. Back then, that percentage o...
Netanyahu dismisses alternatives to military option
by Masha Rifkin
JointMedia News Service
Mar 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The world “can’t wait much longer” for Iran to end its endeavor to produce nuclear weapons, said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conf...
Obama addresses Israel's security at AIPAC convention
by The Israel Project
Mar 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON – Speaking before an audience of thousands at a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) March 4, President Obama reiterated his support for Israel and vowed to ...
JFilm 2012 festival schedule
Feb 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor's note: The date for the JFilm Festival's opening night movie, "Prima Primavera," is Thursday, March 15. The correct date appears in the schedule below, but an incorrect date was given in ...
Terrorists target Israelis in India, Georgia
by The Israel Project
Feb 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — An Israeli embassy car went up in flames Monday following an explosion in a terrorist attack in the Indian capital of New Delhi and a second bomb was safely defused in Georgia’s capital...