Andrew Tobin
By Andrew Tobin
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Breaking News Israel’s Opposition Leaders Vie To Replace Netanyahu — By Sounding Like Him
JERUSALEM (JTA) – The Israeli political scene has always been one of stark contrasts between the two most iconic, if not always most successful, parties: dovish Labor vs. hawkish Likud. While Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu drew huge numbers of settlers in his most recent election as prime minister, uprooting Jewish homes in the West Bank…
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Fast Forward How Israeli Soldier Became America’s Favorite Gun Pin-Up Girl
(JTA) — Orin Julie may look like just another “gun bunny,” as such models are sometimes called, but she is the industry’s secret weapon. She is a former Israeli combat soldier who is trained to discharge the weapons she poses with. “I don’t stand around in swimwear,” she said in an interview at the office of…
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Fast Forward Hollywood’s New Go-to Cantor For Saying The Mourner’s Kaddish On TV
(JTA) — Kenny Ellis isn’t a rabbi. But it wasn’t much of a stretch for him to play one on TV. Ellis is a veteran cantor at Temple Beth Ami, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Santa Clarita, California. After 27 years at the pulpit, he is breaking into prime-time TV this week with two roles…
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Breaking News Israelis Banned From Marriage By Rabbinical Courts In Record Numbers
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s rabbinical courts have in recent years ramped up their practice of blacklisting citizens they deem not Jewish, internal data released Sunday show. With increasing frequency, they have placed Israelis, almost all of them immigrants with Jewish heritage, on lists that prevent them from marrying Jews. They argue this practice is necessary…
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News Yom Kippur Eve Is Night Of Forbidden Love For Secular Israeli Teens
SHOHAM, Israel (JTA) — Ely Cohen topped off his all-white outfit with a few spritzes of cologne. At sundown, the start of Yom Kippur, such “anointments” would no longer be kosher, and he wanted to be ready for the big night. He had just started dating a girl at his high school, and they had plans…
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Fast Forward Is This $1,400 Crocodile-Skin Kippah Kosher?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Curious locals and journalists rushed to a Judaica store in Jerusalem’s Old City to marvel at the new luxury-marketed crocodile, python and cowhide Jewish head coverings. An ostrich edition was said to be coming soon. But as the hype grew, so did public backlash, and last week, the government confiscated the kippahs…
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Israel News Meet Israel’s ‘Alt-Right,’ Spreading Hate Online
JERUSALEM (JTA) – For many Jews, Nazis are public enemy No. 1, and using Nazi imagery to make a political point is strictly verboten. But some young, right-wing Israelis aren’t buying it. Inspired by the so-called alt-right abroad, their online community makes liberal use of anti-Semitic and Nazi imagery to mock and malign what it…
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News This Factory Makes Thousands Of Shofars — Just Don’t Ask The Owner To Blow One
(JTA) GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights (JTA) – Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to blow the shofar. But if you come all the way to his Kol Shofar factory here, Keinan is going to make sure you walk away with the horn that’s right for you….
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