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After decades of waiting, 300 of Ethiopia’s Falash Mura to leave for Israel this week
“I have been waiting to leave because this is not my home,” Kefale Tayachew Damtie, a father of six whose family is bound for Israel, told JTA.
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Masafer Yatta: The 22-year legal battle over West Bank village evictions, explained
Could this West Bank area become another Sheikh Jarrah, which turned into a deadly conflict and an international rallying cry?
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Analysis One year after Gaza War, little has changed, despite the Israeli army’s insistence
Israel's military insists Guardian of the Walls improved security, but it struggles to read a new reality.
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Fast Forward One-third of recent Russian immigrants to Israel left within one month
Russians who have immigrated to Israel since the start of their country's invasion of Ukraine were given additional perks that ordinary immigrants to Israel do not receive — and many have already left.
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Why these Israeli farmers became heroes after killing their crops (hint: it’s in the Bible)
An organization that subsidizes farmers observing shmita, the every-seven-years agricultural sabbatical, says it is doling out more than twice as much as last time around.
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Bari Weiss on Judaism, journalism and civil society
Journalist Bari Weiss received The Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism from the Los Angeles Press Club on October 16, 2021. Following is a transcript of her acceptance speech. “This award feels, I feel a little embarrassed, and that’s because the namesake of this award, Daniel Pearl, displayed the ultimate courage, courage…
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Why Netanyahu was not on Biden’s first round of calls as president
It took Netanyahu only a couple of hours to tweet his congratulation to President Joe Biden after he declared victory against President Donald Trump on Nov. 7. It took another 10 days for Netanyahu to arrange a phone call with Biden. As of Monday, 13 days after Biden entered the Oval Office, a call between…
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Cynical ploy or positive development? How liberal Zionists see Netanyahu’s courting of Arab voters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a lot more than his job to lose in Israel’s upcoming March 23 election, its fourth in less than two years. If he falls from his perch as Israel’s longest-serving leader, Netanyahu would have to face the prosecutors at his corruption trial as an average citizen. So he is hoping…
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Descendants of Holocaust perpetrators seek atonement in Israel
When a German teenager named Setti Pfeiffer begins her day in Israel helping severely disabled children, she often thinks of her great-grandfathers. Almost eight decades ago, Pfeiffer’s maternal great-grandfather Herman Bernhardt helped build the Auschwitz death camp. And while she doesn’t know as much about her great-grandfather on her father’s side, the 18-year old believes…
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Israelis say ‘I do’ to virtual Utah marriages. The government says, ‘You don’t.’
When the pandemic scuttled Shira Hofesh’s plans to get married overseas, she did what a growing number of Israelis are opting to do — she got married virtually in the state of Utah. That seemingly simple act has landed her at the center of a case before the Israeli Supreme Court, one that — if…
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Senior Israeli cabinet minister ‘optimistic’ about warm relations with Biden administration
With President-elect Joe Biden set to take the oath of office on Jan. 17, a senior Israeli minister expressed confidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can develop a warm working relationship with Biden despite major differences on policy — and after four years of embracing President Donald Trump. “I am optimistic,” said Tzahi Hanegbi,…
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Fast Forward Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana’s law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
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