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News Toughest Job in Israel? The Challenges Facing Biden’s Future Ambassador
Under the rosiest of circumstances, the job of U.S. ambassador to Israel is no walk in the park. Living up to high expectations on both sides for a warm and solid alliance with “no sunlight” between the two nations – despite decades-long policy differences – is a tricky tightrope that ambassadors have walked with varying…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez doubles down on Biden keeping Emanuel out for ‘covering up a murder’
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doubling down on her insistence that former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel not be chosen to serve in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration after reports he was under consideration to be secretary of transportation. Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter, “What is so hard to understand about this? Rahm Emanuel helped cover up…
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News Two decades after the second intifada, what have we learned?
(Haaretz) — The 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the second intifada, marked on September 29, the day after Yom Kippur, took place during a period that somewhat resembles the days of the exploding buses. The current terrible stretch, too, is characterized by a general malaise, great personal concerns and questions about when everything will…
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Israel News Israeli kibbutz changes its name to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When I was studying Hebrew and working at Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, back in 1977, I was always a little envious of the volunteers down the road at Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, southeast of Haifa. Kibbutz Ramat HaShofet in israel is renaming itself for a week in honor of #RuthBaderGinsburg. Meaning “heights of the judge, the kibbutz…
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News Pro-Trump Jewish Group Rages After HIAS Chair Tapped for Top U.S. Jewish Role
In another era, the nomination of Dianne Lob as incoming chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations would have likely gone smoothly and unopposed, viewed as a standard changing of the guard in the world of Jewish organizations. But as the pitched battle over the Trump administration’s immigration policies rages, Lob…
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Israel News Netanyahu, Gantz sign coalition deal to form government
Let’s start with the good news, for a change. If the coalition agreement signed by Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz on Monday night, a few minutes before the onset of Holocaust Remembrance Day, is ever implemented, Israel’s new government could theoretically be a vast improvement over its immediate predecessors. Replacing the xenophobic, nationalist, Netanyahu-dominated ultra-right…
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Fast Forward Trump Tweets 2020 Campaign Ad With Logo Used by White Nationalists
President Trump tweeted a new 2020 campaign video on Wednesday evening, which immediately sparked controversy for its purported use of a white nationalist logo at the end of the clip. Former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski was among the first to point out the problematic use of the logo. Binkowski tweeted a thread showing an…
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Pulls Video Claiming Jews Inflated Numbers Of Holocaust Victims
Al-Jazeera’s AJ+ Arabic channel pulled a video it posted to its social media channels Friday night that claimed Jews exploit the Holocaust and that Israel is the genocide’s “greatest beneficiary.” Two journalists who created the video were later suspended. The seven minute-long, Arabic-language video asserted that though the Holocaust did occur, “it’s different from how…
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