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DC Rabbis Urge Trump To ‘Reframe Your Agenda’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dozens of Washington-area rabbis urged President-elect Donald Trump to “reconsider” his campaign’s rhetoric and extend his agenda to all Americans. The full-page ad appearing in Tuesday’s Express, a subway giveaway newspaper published by the Washington Post, welcomes the incoming administration “to our great city.” “We expect that, first and foremost, your victory…
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Evangelicals Fly to DC to Push Israel Agenda Ahead of Trump Inauguration
(JTA) — Leaders of the country’s largest evangelical pro-Israel lobby are flying in to Washington, D.C., to back bills that slam the recent U.N. anti-settlements resolution and force the president to move the Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem. Some 260 members of Christians United for Israel are coming from 49 states to push the measures Wednesday…
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Miriam Goldberg, Publisher of Intermountain Jewish News Since 1972, Dies at 100
(JTA) — Miriam Harris Goldberg, the editor and publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News in Denver since 1972, has died. Goldberg, a charter inductee of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame who was honored frequently by the Jewish and general community for her stewardship of the weekly newspaper, died Sunday. She was 100. Goldberg began working…
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Paris Will Project Israeli Flag on City Hall in Solidarity After Attack
(JTA) – An image of the Israeli flag will be projected on Paris’ city hall to show solidarity with the victims of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, the mayor of the French capital said. Anne Hidalgo announced the initiative Tuesday following expressions of solidarity in Berlin, where the Israeli flag was projected on the Brandenburg Gate, and…
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Israel Museum Names New Director
(JTA) — The Israel Museum in Jerusalem has named Eran Neuman, the head of the architecture school at Tel Aviv University, as its new director. The announcement on Tuesday comes a year after James Snyder announced he would step down as director after 20 years guiding the prominent Jerusalem museum. Neuman currently is the director…
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After Day of 16 Bomb Threats, FBI To Coordinate With JCCs in ‘New Reality’
(JTA) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day. On Wednesday, officials from the FBI and Homeland Security will conduct a conference call with U.S. Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents, what they stem…
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Lithuanian Game Show Canceled After Nazi Salute and ‘Jew’ Clue
(JTA) – A Lithuanian game show in which a contestant performed a Nazi salute and shouted “Jew” to describe a Jewish composer was taken off the air. Actress Asta Baukute, a former lawmaker, made the gesture on the “Guess the Melody” episode that aired Friday, Delfi reported. In the charades-style game, contestants act out songs and other…
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Ethiopian Israelis Now Able to Donate Blood Without Restrictions
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ethiopian Israelis will be permitted to donate blood without restrictions. The new Health Ministry rules will take effect on July 1, Haaretz reported Tuesday, citing the Magen David Adom ambulance service. Blood donations from Ethiopian-born Israelis have been banned since 1977. The date of the new procedures was announced at the meeting…
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Nepotism Questions as Son-in-Law Kushner Becomes Senior Advisor
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job. Kushner, 35, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is taking the post after receiving…
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Alleged Stabber Killed by IDF in West Bank Raid
(Haaretz) — Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man who allegedly tried to stab them in a refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday. According to the army, the man ran with a drawn knife toward the soldiers during a raid in Far’a, a refugee camp. “Forces called to…
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Coldplay to Play 2 Israeli-Palestinian Peace Concerts in West Bank
(JTA) — The British rock band Coldplay will play two “peace concerts” for Israelis and Palestinians. The concerts, set for Nov. 3 and 4, will be performed at an outdoor location north of the Dead Sea, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Monday. The shows will aim to promote human rights and bring people together, The Times of…
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