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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 | 10 10 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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<i> 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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Orthodox filmmakers explore tough issues
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Nov 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
Lazar, an Orthodox American man transplanted to Jerusalem with his wife, is a bit of a schlemiel. He has trouble holding a job. He tries to be a tour guide for English speakers, but no one will hir...
Israel's Netanyahu has his defenders, detractors
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Nov 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
After disparaging Benjamin Netanyahu in what they thought was a private conversation, President Barak Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have been widely criticized, and their allegiance to...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews are increasingly joining the Israeli work force and the IDF.
by Jacob Kamaras/JointMedia News Service
Nov 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
DENVER — Advocates for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews in the workplace and the army point out a subtle, yet important distinction between integration and inclusion. Though more than 50 percent of Isr...
Palestinian statehood bid falters
by Staff and wire reports
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
The Palestinians' statehood bid in the United Nations appears to be doomed. Several news media outlets were reporting Wednesday that the United Nations Security Council has not reached a consensus ...
Behind the ‘Military Dimension to Iran’s Nuclear Program’
by Masha Rifkin
JointMedia News Service
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Iran has been secretly working on developing nuclear weapons since 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced for the first time Nov. 8 in a long-awaited report sent to the 35 member st...
Israeli killed as Gaza rockets hit school, homes
by The Israel Project
Oct 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM – An Israeli father of four was killed on Saturday night after being hit by shrapnel from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. Ami Moshe, 56, was driving home when a siren sounded in his ...
How the day unfolded: A minute-by-minute timeline
by Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JointMedia News Service
Oct 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
After nearly five and a half years in Hamas captivity in Gaza, without a single visit from the Red Cross, a doctor or his family, Gilad Shalit returned to Israel on Tuesday and at press time was on...
Occupy Wall Street protests taking on a Jewish flavor
by Dan Klein and Danielle Fleischman
JTA
Oct 13, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Rachel Feldman originally had meant to attend a traditional synagogue Kol Nidre service. Aimee Weiss hadn’t found a place to daven but was looking for something more interesting than a ...
Cabinet approves deal
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Oct 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — If Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is freed in the prisoner-exchange deal with Hamas that was approved by Israel's Cabinet in a 26-3 vote late Tuesday night, it will raise two immediate que...
Libyan Jewish exile to leave country
by JTA
Oct 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
A Libyan Jewish exile attempting to restore Tripoli's main synagogue will leave the country following angry protests. David Gerbi, who arrived in Libya from Italy this summer when Libyan leader Mo...