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News Islamic Jihad Swears Revenge as 13 killed in Israeli Raids in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday continued its assault on Gaza Strip militants responsible for the Qassam rockets that batter southern Israel on a daily basis, raising the death toll among Islamic Jihad and Hamas to 13 in the past 24 hours. The strikes are the IDF’s most deadly military response in months to the…
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News Israel’s Conservative Movement Threatens To Sue Ex-Chief Rabbi
Israel’s Masorti (Conservative) Movement is threatening legal action against former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu for saying that “the reek of hell wafts” from Reform and Conservative synagogues, and it is therefore forbidden to walk by them. Eliyahu, a leading religious Zionist rabbi, made the remark last week during his weekly Torah lecture. It was…
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