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The group that's most underrepresented are the religiously unaffiliated, which accounts for 23% of the general public but is represented by only 0.2% of Congress.
Minister Katz calls to renew a proposal that connects the communities of Greater Jerusalem to Jerusalem itself.
Hollywood stars who greeted the New Year in Israel also met the 'Black Hebrew Israelites' mostly from Chicago, now living in Dimona.
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Another way for Australia to demonstrate its unswerving support for Israel, as the Middle East’s only liberal, pluralist democracy, might be to ... move its embassy to Jerusalem.
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Facing Independence Mall as it does, in the heart of historic Philadelphia, the Museum’s signage refers to one of the most significant documents in American history.
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Trump's team wants to arrange a meeting of the two leaders even before the swearing in ceremony.
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Collaboration between American and Israeli clandestine services has been increasing over the past few years, despite the murky relationship between outgoing President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
A 5-alarm fire spread like lightning, totally destroying a building in Queens, NY that stood for generations and housed 14 businesses.
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'Had Australia been a member of the Security Council, it would not have supported last Friday's resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements.'
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UK ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch has said he hopes May and Trump will emulate the rapport between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi called the residents of the Jewish community of Amona "land thieves" while speaking to Ono Academic College.
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Masbia volunteers say they want everyone to have a hot meal this holiday season despite their own financial duress.
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Reynolds had a stroke while working with her son, Todd Fisher, on funeral plans for Carrie.
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'John Kerry is a stain on American foreign policy who is ignorant of the issues.'
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Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).
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'It’s so sad that at this time people should feel that they want to express themselves in such a negative way,' Chabad Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz said.
Defense Minister Liberman warns French Jews in particular that if they want to remain Jewish, now is the time to leave.
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'The WZO cannot incorporate a man in their ranks who served as Director of B'Tselem USA, an organization that deliberately and explicitly calls for the sanctions on Israel in international institutions.'
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Netanyahu's spokesman David Keys said Israel has ironclad information that the Obama administration helped craft the anti-settlements UNSC resolution.
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He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.'
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"Over decades, American administrations and Israeli governments had disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the Security Council was not the place to resolve this issue," Netanyahu noted.
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Although President-Elect Trump should not be taken for granted on any issue, his choices for Ambassador to Israel and for the Israel-PA peace negotiator are at least a positive opening signal to Israel's rightwing majority.
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Habayit Hayehudi Chairman MK Naftali Bennett said on Saturday night that now is the time to switch from retreat to sovereignty.'
By Marc Gronich
Hikind disputes claims by DOT officials that right turns are responsible for a substantial percentage of pedestrian-auto traffic injuries.
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President-Elect Donald Trump engaged in his first act as leader of the free world on Thursday, when his tweet stopped the game clock on an Egyptian anti-settlements UN Security Council resolution.
By State Senator Simcha Felder
Here’s the question one of the reporters should have asked that day: Were hate crimes – and other crimes – up in our city before Donald Trump announced his candidacy?
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Icahn, who believes the Environmental Protection Agency hurts business, has played a central role in selecting the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Worst Celebrations of Special Days: AFP, which dedicated its International Women’s Day coverage to the hardships of Arab women whose husbands are held in Israeli jails.
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At the same time, there is a creeping acceptance of intermarriages within the Conservative movement.
The ardently pro-Israel Rep. Clemmons described a positive future for Israel during Trump era.
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The T-50 designers prefer maneuverability over secrecy, and so it's not as stealth as the F-35. In fact, its twin-engine design more closely resembles the F-22 Raptor of 20 years ago.
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From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.
The suspect fired 5 times in the air with a shotgun outside the US Embassy.
American campuses are the petri dishes in which the latest version of the oldest hatred grows.
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Her 1986 marriage to Prince Frederic von Anhalt entitled her to pass on as Princess von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony.
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Like a baseball team after a losing season, J Street is making 2017 a rebuilding year, using US Jews' fear and loathing of President-Elect Trump to scare up (literally) the donations.
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Route 60, which runs from Afula, on Israel's side of the "green line" through Jenin, near Shechem, through Ofra and outside Ramallah to Jerusalem, features ghost villages on either side of the highway.
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How will the gang in Ramallah take the news from Washington? Not well, most likely.
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A pro-Trump protester yelled at Sharon Kleinbaum, clergywoman of LGBT Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, 'You would have been on the side of Antiochus rather than Judah the Maccabee.'
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Say what you will, the man has great writers and – crucial – can deliver a line.
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During last month's test flights, symbols on the Elbit helmet display used by pilots in aim air-to-ground attacks were 'unusable and unsafe to complete the planned testing.'
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The law allows the heirs six years to sue in US court from the day they become aware of the existence and location of the looted object.
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According to the chief rabbis, the plan is to create a system whereby the conversions done by rabbis who meet the chief rabbinate criteria would be approved.
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The Limbach Commission, a panel set up by Germany to return Nazi-looted art in public collections, has already issued a recommendation against returning a painting by Gris that used to hang in Flechtheim’s Berlin apartment.
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All his children were born to non-Jewish mothers, but Douglas insists they were "aware culturally" of his "deep convictions," and he never tried to influence their own religious decisions.
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In August 1991, during the Crown Heights pogrom, Sharpton led a march of some 400 Blacks in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.
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'If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you. If you divert revenues from Israel, New York will divert revenues from you. If you sanction Israel, New York will sanction you, period. Thank you.'
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'New information recently has come to light that raises serious concerns about whether Rep. Ellison faithfully could represent the Democratic Party’s traditional support for a strong and secure Israel.'
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Last year the WZO established 140 new Hebrew language centers, most of them in France, Argentina, and the UK.
The film Hate Spaces dissects the issue of gross indifference towards American Jews on universities nation-wide.
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According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.
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The Elbit F-35 HMD provides the pilot with a virtual Head-Up Display (HUD), making the F-35 the first tactical fighter jet in 50 years to fly without a HUD.
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Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, who told local TV station 12News that 'when you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.'
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A fight has ensued between the Obama and Clinton camps over the wisdom of the concession so early in the process, and of trying to force a recount of three Rust Belt states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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According to a 2004 Chicago Tribune article, Muslim American Society is another name for the US chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.
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Some 50 years ago, real estate developer Fredrick Trump was among the main donors to the Beach Haven Jewish Center at 723 Ave. Z in Flatbush, NY.
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“He asked us to come, we never invited him," ZOA President Mort Klein stated, adding, "Of course, an important guy like him says he wants to come, I say yes.”
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"Superman and Captain America can be seen as Jewish creators imagining how they'd be awesome and powerful if they were white."
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Senator Squadron invited New Yorkers and the media to join him on Sunday at the Adam Yauch park on State Street at 11:30 AM, "to stand against hate in our backyard, our city, and our country."
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Huckabee was one of the guests invited to a sit down with President Elect Donald Trump on Friday, after which a transition official said he would be "America's top diplomat in the Jewish state."
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On May 29 the five Democrats met with Shawan Jabarin, a long-time member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some pro-Israel activists recall, with dismay, Ellison's efforts to unseat a pro-Israel New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman, in 2012.
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"In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,'" Boxer said in her statement. "I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!"
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White supremacist Richard Spencer compared the move against his neo-Nazi movement as both "corporate Stalinism" and the Gestapo's 1934 "night of the long knives" purge of the SA’s leadership.
By Marc Gronich
We have to be very clear-headed and cautious about what is said because what is said by the U.S. president is paid minute attention to by the rest of the world.
Years before alt-right was in the news, Bannon exposed his worldview. Are these the words of an anti-Semite?
The witch hunt against Bannon is animated by the impotent rage of the "anyone but Trumpers."
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According to Klein, ZOA's experience and analysis of Breitbart articles confirm Bannon’s and Breitbart’s "friendship and fair-mindedness towards Israel and the Jewish people. To accuse Mr. Bannon and Breitbart of anti-Semitism is Orwellian."
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One student said the experience "felt very violating and personal because it happened in a space where we live, where we hang out, where we sleep."
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According to the Israel Ministry of Defense, F-35 related cooperation between Lockheed Martin and Israeli defense companies has reached $993 million.
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This week, Ingraham has been twitter-shaming Obama for not intervening to stop the violent protests against the November elections results. "Where is Pres Obama urging calm?" she tweeted on Saturday.
Obama can still push forward agenda items that Trump opposes.
The two are looking forward to meeting.
Clinton supporters want the Electoral College Electors to vote for Clinton and not Trump.
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Somebody should tell Ivanka Trump and Jason Greenblatt as soon as Shabbat is out.
Marchers protested UNESCO's effort to erase Judaism from the Jewish people's holiest sites.
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He served as the commander of a joint special operations task unit, commander of a Mark V Special Operations Craft detachment, and commander of an al Qaeda targeting cell.
Speculation is rising that these anti-Trump protests are not organic...
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In March 2000 the Israeli government was refused permission to purchase BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles.
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Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said, with noted condescension, "If the Israeli right knows what Trump position regarding Israel is, I believe they know more than Trump does."
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If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.
Jewish pirates aren't more interesting Jews; Jewish pirates make pirates more interesting, says the filmmaker.
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None of the participants need be corrupt or sinister in any way, the website doesn't provide smarmy details about their sins, all they've done to be included here is be Jewish.
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that "we must adjust to the fact that American foreign policy will get less predictable in the near future."
"I am confident that you will continue to empower our city by reaffirming its sovereignty and moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem."
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Clinton, Bush and Obama all pledged on their campaign trails to move the embassy to the "eternal city."
Settlement leaders have begun congratulating President-Elect Donald Trump
The US Embassy has thrown a voting party in Tel Aviv
Please join us on the JewishPress.com website later tonight for a chat about the elections.
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Podesta's aide Doug Band called Chelsea a “spoiled brat kid.”
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Chareau, whose wife Dollie Dyte Chareau was Jewish and whose mother came from a Sephardic family, fled to the United States in 1940.
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.
The legislation makes it clear that companies can either perform a BDS action or they can do business with Pennsylvania. However, they cannot do both.
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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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Sabeel spokespeople, particularly founder Ateek, disparage Judaism as “tribal,” “primitive,” and “exclusionary,” while contrasting this to Christianity’s “universalism” and “inclusiveness.”
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"In Judaism buildings aren’t so important, they are places that we use… but we move, we move a lot."
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The United States and Israel have been collaborating on rotorcraft technologies since the 1980's, with more than one hundred scientists and engineers from both sides developing breakthrough technologies.
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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.