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Life Israeli And Palestinian Fashion Entrepreneurs Join Forces With Emerging Brand
With Jerusalem’s lush terraced hillsides as backdrop, two designers hunch over a work table strewn with embroidery floss and half-drained coffee cups, discussing how they will construct an embroidered clutch for their latest collection. Although the scene looks like any humdrum snapshot of the production side of the fashion industry, something extraordinary may be taking…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Delegation Will Lead Large United Nations Voting Bloc
The biggest bloc of developing countries, known as Group of 77, at the United Nations has chosen the observer state of Palestine as its next leader, The New York Times reported. Palestine would take over leadership of the bloc starting in January. The bloc often speaks as one voice in the General Assembly and represents…
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Opinion Israeli Democracy Is Just Fine
It’s over: Israel has picked “identity over democracy.” That’s both the premise and conclusion of a recent piece by The New York Times columnist Max Fisher, who sees in the lamentable “Nation-State” law passed last week by the Knesset a rejection of democracy, and an embrace of theocracy and ethnocracy. Fisher writes that Israel has…
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Opinion Israel’s Democracy Is On Life Support. Diaspora Jews Must Speak Up.
It is time for the Jewish Diaspora to update some of its favorite lines for advocating on behalf of Israel. For example, “Arabic is one of Israel’s two official languages” is now a factually incorrect statement after Israel’s new Nation-State bill was passed by the Knesset last week. The bill downgraded Arabic from an official…
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Opinion A Letter To Southern Israelis, From Your Neighbor In Gaza
To Gaza’s Neighbors in southern Israel: Over the last month, you’ve had some of the most sleepless and terrible nights in years, and so have your Palestinian sisters and brothers in Gaza. Shabbat after Shabbat, you had only 15 seconds to shelter your loved ones; meanwhile, many Gazans had no time to escape, nowhere to…
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Community Stop Treating Israel Like A Black-And-White Issue
It’s jarring, frustrating and fruitless the way people determine that all things are either black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. Nearly everyone, it seems, has a side, a cause, an oppressor and a victim. And if you don’t agree — completely — not only are you wrong, but you are also one…
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Fast Forward Jewish Australian Lawmaker’s Office Defaced With Anti-Israel Stickers
(JTA) — Vandals defaced the headquarters of a Jewish-Australian lawmaker with anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian slogans. The glass doors of Michael Danby’s storefront headquarters in Melbourne on Saturday evening were plastered with stickers accusing the pro-Israel member of parliament of being “silent on apartheid” and “the mass murder of unarmed men, women [and] infants.” The group…
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News Prominent Jewish Donor To Israel Stopped At Airport Over ‘Palestine’ Pamphlet
A prominent Jewish-American philanthropist was delayed for security questioning at Ben-Gurion Airport this week after a pro-Palestinian pamphlet was found in his suitcase. The incident involving attorney Meyer Koplow took place on Sunday and has drawn strong criticism from the American-Jewish community in recent days. A senior Israeli official told Haaretz that the questioning took…
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