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Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
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Podesta's aide Doug Band called Chelsea a “spoiled brat kid.”
Netanyahu told cabinet ministers that relations with Washington are “solid” and would continue to be strong with either Hillary Clinton or Donald J. Trump in the White House.
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As the US Presidential elections draw closer, the candidates are looking for all the support they can get.
Someone in the front of the audience reportedly began yelling "gun" and a commotion ensued.
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The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.
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The two-state solution does not stand a chance unless the leaders of both sides "are willing and able to make decisions" — and it’s highly unlikely that whomever is chosen to succeed Abbas would be able to make them.
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Like the bulk of the Democratic party, Biden supports a two-state solution.
Questions will be taken from the audience as well as those put together by the sponsors of the forum.
By Marc Gronich
Nadler and Rosenthal seem to be engaging in a bit of one-upmanship on who cares more for Israel, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
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John Podesta served as President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until the end of Clinton's time in office in January 2001.
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“For me, respect and reverence for Judaism is personal," Trump told his Israeli-American voters. "My daughter Ivanka and my son-in-law Jared are raising their children in the Jewish faith.”
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To be fair, the media, Jewish and otherwise, have yet to catch Abedin in a scandalous anti-Israel statement, the kind that White House staff resignations are made of.
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It is doubtful either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would have been approved to run for presidnet in Iran, even if they had agreed to embrace Islam…
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The source noted that, despite their "dissatisfaction" with these requests, the PA leadership will restrain itself and avoid any UNSC move until after the elections.
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And now we'll all hold our breath until November 9, when a brave new world might just emerge for Israel…
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Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.
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"Most of the people who write about him don't [know him]. I do. So that gives me an ability to shrug off the things that I read about him that are wrong."
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Back in September, The Guardian reported the Adelsons were planning to donate as much as $25 million, later that figure was reduced to a mere $5 million, and now, apparently, they settled on $10 million.
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Kerry responded by saying the Administration has not yet made its decision on this matter — which is probably what he would have said if he didn't want an Obama anti-Israel move to hit the news before the election.
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Neither Republican nor Democratic candidate offered realistic solutions for the escalation of the Syrian civil war, just north of Israel's border.
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Habayit Hayehudi is facing an existential dilemma these days, as many of its voters have said they'd rather see their elected representatives leave government than participate in the decision to uproot the Amona residents.
By The Daily Caller News Foundation
Huma Abedin, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, urged former President Bill Clinton in 2009 to reject a speaking invitation before AIPAC, saying, “u really want to consider sending him into that crowd?”
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The White House has been watching helplessly as Putin suspended the treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.
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Overall, the debate veered to the Iran deal four times, and Gov. Pence was not able to turn any of them into a knockout, or even a win on points.
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The High Court continues to take notice of Shaked, and has been noticeably mindful of the need to avoid unnecessary friction with a Justice Minister who is probably the most popular minister in Israel.
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The most devastating point was made by Secretary Clinton when she said the Obama Administration had no choice but to pull out of Iraq.
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"The rules in the Middle East are sometimes counterintuitive," Bennett said. "To maintain peace here, we must be very strong. As soon a you're too soft in this neighborhood, you catch a blow."
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Jews made up 18% of Obama’s donors and 7% of Romney’s donors in 2012. In 2016, 20% of Clinton’s donors are Jewish, only 3% of Trump’s donors have stood at Mount Sinai.
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The elected lower house of Jordan's parliament is constrained by an upper house of equal legislative responsibility whose members are chosen by the King.
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The SPD is expected to form a new regional coalition government with the Left and the Greens, who suffered a 2.5% drop to 15.1%.
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Only 15% of the Jews asked are married to a non-Jew. But wait, don't celebrate yet: only 35% are married to a Jew, either from birth or a convert, and a full 49% are not married.
"This district is literally Ground Zero and our representative supported the Iran Deal? Is no one paying attention," Rosenthal queries.
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Eight years ago, Trump espoused publicly his view that Obama was born overseas, probably in Kenya, the home of his African father, which made him ineligible for the presidency.
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Did Netanyahu sign the MOU in return for an Obama promise to leave him alone between Nov. 9 and January 17?
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Democratic lawmakers are concerned the veto would ignite a showdown between the White House and Congress that would damage the president.
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On the trial of Sgt. Elor Azaria, who is accused of killing an Arab terrorist who had already been neutralized, 65% of the Jewish public justify his action.
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As soon as they became public, those railroad projects turned into a ticking bomb.
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The order for the technical teams to abandon the work sites was given after they had taken apart some of the rails, so that there was no way to resume service Saturday night.
This year’s candidates come to the table with the perfect blend of grassroots’ background and involvement and higher-up political success.
The election season in Brooklyn is no different. As a borough with one of the most eclectic mixes of ethnicities in all of America, voting for representatives is very important to its inhabitants.
By Sean Savage
The grass roots group Jews Choose Trump was formed in late July by financial adviser Carol Greenwald along with several partners, including Jewish activist and founder of JCCWatch.org Richard Allen.
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Wasserman Schultz had a lot to do with quashing Senator Sanders' efforts to turn the DNC platform into an all out attack on the Israeli "occupation."
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Beres has no illusions about a Hillary Clinton presidency when it comes to Israel's interests, but he is deeply concerned by Trump's "endless litany of barren clichés, emotional arguments and thoroughly empty witticisms."
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Weiner was vehemently pro-Israel in Congress, and yet in 2010 he married Huma Abedin, a Muslim of Indian and Pakistani descent who was raised and educated in Saudi Arabia.
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Less than a majority of respondents believe that the scheduled local elections are important; the rest believe that they are somewhat important or not important. Only 47% are confident the elections will be held as scheduled.
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Israeli media and political experts spent the past week trying to figure out what in God's good name Bibi's former defense minister was talking about.
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A report on the effort says successful achievements included “buy-in of individual bishops to more publicly voice support of economic and racial justice messages."
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Jerry Nadler stuck his neck out as the only Jewish Congressman to support Obama's nuclear deal with Iran — which did not earn him the DNC staff's respect.
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What is being presented as an ideological warfare between political factions in the PA, is, in fact, turf war between criminal enterprises.
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It should be noted that the Oslo Accords forbid the participation of terror organizations in PA elections, but Hamas has already set a precedence in 2006.
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Mark Green told WNYC the Democratic candidate should have a team of one overall manager, one surrogate, and a team of ten advisers who remind her to smile a lot.
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The cash payment to the Iranian government is the subject of the latest war between the Republicans and the Obama administration, with the Republicans saying the payment was ransom for the release of the three American prisoners from Iranian captivity.
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Trump's new campaign chief executive officer comes from Breitbart, which called Bill Kristol "Renegade Jew."
The Trump campaign has reportedly hired former Yediot Aharonot reporter Tzvika Brot and other political and public relations experts in order to reach American voters in Israel.
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There was absolutely no new policy idea in the Trump speech Monday night, but there was an implied promise to encourage all levels of law enforcement to be less restrained in pursuing their targets.
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The rightwing parties could possibly combine their numbers to boycott either Kahlon or Lapid, or both, from the future coalition government.
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Jerusalem Arabs habitually boycott the elections, some out of resentment of the Jewish takeover back in 1967, most because they fear retribution.
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It could be that the bulk of Trump's voters remain under the polling radar, but come November they would give their candidate his unlikely victory.
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Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen won the Tennessee 9th Congressional District primary vote by a whopping 86%.
A bipartisan committee has been tasked with investigating political organizations that are funded with money from foreign governments, such as the V15 organization.
By dvora
“Our party has a long tradition of being pro-Israel, and being pro-Israel doesn’t mean we agree on everything, but we’re friends, we’re allies, we’re partners and to the extent we have disagreements we try to work them out productively,” Kaine said.
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Bennett was behind the popular notion that the Netanyahu security cabinet was unaware of the tunnel threat.
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Hamas is hoping to capitalize on its popularity in the PA, where the public has had enough of the corrupt PLO leadership.
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Kaine would be a bonanza to leftwing Israeli Jews, very much like the folks who are currently in the White House.
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Two sources actually confirmed it was a Jew who arranged the embarrassing ditty — Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who commissioned a draft of Ms. Trump’s speech.
Cardin and Schumer called on their colleagues in both chambers to quickly advance the legislation when Congress reconvenes in September.
Chris Christie definitely put on quite a performance yesterday at the RNC.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish and Christian pro-Israel leaders worked with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's team to bring revisions in the GOP party platform's language, strengthening it on Israel
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She denounced “the 6-million lie” and recommended the writings of Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust denier who had been deported from Canada in 2005.
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Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning: "Justice Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot - resign!"
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Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) said that the State Dept. funding of the V15 campaign proves once again how timely and vital the new NGO transparency legislation has been.
The Republican party doesn't match the anti-Israel party portrait peddled by so many for so long.
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The grownups have prevailed, apparently, at the 2016 democratic platform committee.
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In the immortal words of FDR, when someone asked him about the wisdom of supporting Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, “He may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.”
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In January 2015 Shamir announced he was leaving the party and would not run in the 2015 elections because of to disagreements with Liberman over foreign policy.
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Earlier this year, CAIR said Trump's repeating the story about US General John Pershing executing Muslim prisoners in the Philippines using bullets dipped in pig's blood was endangering American Muslims.
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Teachout is on the record as opposing NY Gov. Cuomo’s new order prohibiting awarding state contracts to BDS-supporting companies, which has earned her the support to many pro-BDS groups.
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The Labour party's response to the referendum results was a masterpiece of spin.
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If Israel's security forces had used this yardstick in their approach to predictive profiling it would have choked not just its international airports, but traffic on the streets in many cities, too.
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“What's the greatest mistake of the right wing government?" Herzog joked, answering his own trick question: "That there is no real left wing to blame.
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Ahead of coalition reshuffle, Bennett revving up attacks on Netanyahu, Liberman urging calm.
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A Friday Channel 1 News poll gives Bennett's party 14 seats in a new election, with Likud shrinking from 30 to 27 seats, Labor chopped down from 24 to 11, and Lieberman gaining 2, from 6 to 8 seats.
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On Friday morning, a Kulanu politician, Environment Minister Avi Gabbay, announced his resignation on account of the Lieberman appointment.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump has good friends in Cornel West and James Zogby, who will surely rattle and shake one of the Democratic party’s most third-ralish third rail issues, in public.
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While Clinton and Trump are essentially tied, Bernie Sanders whips Trump by double digits in almost every single major poll.
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Glick also said "there should be clear instructions as to how to conduct a wedding ceremony, and just as you don't have to have a rabbi at a circumcision, under the chupah you don't need a rabbi either."
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Netanyahu's patron Adelson has taken on himself the mission of mending the rift between the PM and the candidate.
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The NYT report described "unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct."
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Was the defense minister calling on his officer to rebel against the political class? Probably not, although he sounded dangerously close to saying just that.
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The Brexit camp wants Britain to take back full control of its borders and reduce the number of people coming over to work.
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Bennett plans to crash the Netanyahu coalition in six months, with or without Labor taking up residence in the cabinet.
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In 1948 Israel's annual GDP (in 2015 rates) was $6.66 billion. Today we are happy to report things have become much better, with the GDP reaching $294 billion.
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Israel has seen its share of wall-to-wall coalition governments, especially in the 1980s, and in each instance it has been Labor which acquiesced to join with Likud.
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“I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job because frankly that would be very, very good.”
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Conservative Candidate Goldsmith, as well as Prime Minister David Cameron, repeatedly accused Khan of offering "platform, oxygen and cover” to religious and political extremists.
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Chen said he was truly surprised by the discovery, because he had honestly expected Trump to be the chosen candidate.
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“Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican. He’s our nominee."
August 7, 2026 
