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(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week that the United States will no longer consider Israeli Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be illegal.
Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie of New York critiqued some of the discourse when Syrian and Palestinian delegates referred to “the Israeli occupation of Palestine” and the “Zionist entity’s aggression.”
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“It’s important for the people of our community to know that this exists, to take a stand,” said the church’s president, Andy Reese.
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One example of Jewish unity occurred amid last week’s rocket attacks. White City Shabbat in Tel Aviv expanded its oversubscribed Friday-night dinner for 1,000 to residents of southern Israel free of charge.
The post Annual Shabbat Project sees unprecedented participation in US, Israel and worldwide appeared first on JNS.org.
(JTA) — More than a century after her death, Cora Wilburn is having her moment.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev maintained that “electronic communications, social networks and mass media have created grounds to turn hatred to a widespread system around the world” with “hate speech provoking instability around, incites war crimes and genocide.”
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(JTA) — Several leading Democratic presidential candidates condemned the Trump administration’s announcement that it will no longer regard West Bank Jewish settlements as illegal.
“We fear significant civilian costs in Lebanon if Israel must act to defend its citizens because Hezbollah has positioned its massive arsenal in civilian areas—turning much of Lebanon’s population into human shields,” it read. “Hezbollah will bear the responsibility for that.”
The post Members of Congress send bipartisan letter to UN, urging it to confront Hezbollah appeared first on JNS.org.
BERLIN (JTA) — A child survivor of the Holocaust interrupted the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard to give the 93-year-old defendant a hug.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The leaders of Israel’s seven universities are expressing their outrage over the University of Toronto’s Graduate Student Union conflating a kosher food program with support for Israel.
(JTA) — Pieces of Jewish gravestones used to pave sidewalks in Prague will be given to the Jewish community to return to the city’s Old Jewish Cemetery.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The off-duty Israeli police officer who fatally shot an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager in a Haifa-area park will be charged with negligent homicide rather than manslaughter, the higher charge the victim’s family was seeking.
This is a developing story.
(JTA) — Sacha Baron Cohen will be honored by the Anti-Defamation League for his “vision, imagination and creativity.”
“At the age of 20 on an online forum, I took part in a range of political discussions,” said Aberdeen North candidate Ryan Houghton. “These included terrorism, LGBT rights and anti-Semitism.”
The post UK Conservative Party candidate suspended over defamatory comments appeared first on JNS.org.
“If I have one message, it is that we stand shoulder to shoulder with you,” said U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein. “We always have, and we always will.”
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According to the Jews of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the country is an “oasis of tolerance,” protecting all religious minorities (Jews included) in a world where persecution has become a norm.
The post Visiting the ‘Mountain Jews’ of Azerbaijan, one the world’s last remaining shtetls appeared first on JNS.org.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Benny Gantz flank Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the president's residence in Jerusalem, Sept. 23, 2019. They met to discuss forming a unity government.
A third national election is looming if Gantz cannot form a government by midnight Wednesday.
The post Gantz and Netanyahu to meet night before deadline in final attempt to form government appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“It is deplorable that the United Nations should be so often used by member states to treat one state in particular, Israel, unequally,” said Cherith Norman Chalet, Acting U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations.
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Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz will sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday night with just 26 hours to go before his mandate expires.
The post Netanyahu, Gantz to meet in final effort to negotiate a unity government deal appeared first on JNS.org.
Technion team’s synthetic honey is produced by a bacterium that ‘learns’ to make it following reprogramming in a lab.
The post Israeli students win award for making honey without bees appeared first on JNS.org.
“The U.S. administration has lost its credibility to play any future role in the peace process,” says P.A. spokesman • Jordanian Foreign Minister: U.S. policy shift will have “dangerous consequences.”
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(JTA) — Despite BDS threats and concerns about security over recent rockets fired from Gaza, soccer star player Lionel Messi took the field in Tel Aviv.
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem sits on a traffic circle recently named for President Donald Trump. The compound is in the middle of Arnona, a quiet residential neighborhood in the city's south.
The warning covers Americans visiting or planning to visit Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
The post U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issues travel warning over settlements announcement appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“All settlement activity is illegal under international law” and damages peace effort, says E.U. representative Federica Mogherini shortly after Washington announces policy shift on Judea and Samaria.
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Israeli armored vehicles on the Golan Heights bear the border with Syria on Nov. 19, 2019, hours after four rockets were fired from Syria into northern Israel.
The Israeli military believes the rockets were fired by Iran or by a group firing on the orders of Iran.
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Early-morning attack triggers sirens in the northern Golan and the Galilee region, sending residents rushing to bomb shelters • Iron Dome downs all four missiles, Israeli military says.
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Environmental Protection Agency officials have been working with Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection in providing the latest best practices and technologies.
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“We’re tired of sitting back and letting a few vocal outliers hijack the Democratic Party’s Israel policy,” said Democratic Majority for Israel president and CEO Mark Mellman. “Instead, the platform continues the party’s proud history of supporting both Israel and the peace process.”
The post California Democratic Party Convention votes down anti-Israel amendments appeared first on JNS.org.
“I think we’re seeing the weaponization of criminal justice for political purposes,” U.S. attorney Alan Dershowitz tells JNS. “In Israel, the attorney general is supposed to be outside of politics.”
The post Dershowitz calls on Mandelblit to ‘do the right thing’ and drop charges against Netanyahu appeared first on JNS.org.
It had been used since the the end of the Holocaust as a furniture factory and carpentry workshop.
The post Ukraine synagogue dating back to 18th century collapses due to fire appeared first on JNS.org.
It means that negotiations “will no longer begin from the premise that Israel has no claim to this land or stole it from the Palestinians. That false legal theory only served to harden Palestinian positions and make successful negotiations impossible,” said Eugene Kontorovich, director of the Center for International Law in the Middle East at George Mason University’s School of Law.
The post US announcement on Israeli settlements does not ‘close door’ on peace, says legal expert appeared first on JNS.org.
A rendering of the exterior of the proposed West Side Jewish Center SynaCondo.
Several synagogues in New York City have tried to become condos -- with synagogues on the ground floor or basement. So far, none have succeeded.
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Two-thirds of the delegates rejected language calling for the Palestinians' right of return and eliminating references to the two-state solution.
The post California Democrats vote down ‘highly flawed anti-Israel’ amendment to party platform appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The California state capitol in Sacramento
This represents another dramatic change that aligns the U.S. with Israel's right-wing government.
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JTA Headlines
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week that the United States will no longer consider Israeli Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be illegal.
(JTA) — More than a century after her death, Cora Wilburn is having her moment.
(JTA) — Several leading Democratic presidential candidates condemned the Trump administration’s announcement that it will no longer regard West Bank Jewish settlements as illegal.
BERLIN (JTA) — A child survivor of the Holocaust interrupted the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard to give the 93-year-old defendant a hug.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The leaders of Israel’s seven universities are expressing their outrage over the University of Toronto’s Graduate Student Union conflating a kosher food program with support …
(JTA) — Pieces of Jewish gravestones used to pave sidewalks in Prague will be given to the Jewish community to return to the city’s Old Jewish Cemetery.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The off-duty Israeli police officer who fatally shot an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager in a Haifa-area park will be charged with negligent homicide rather than manslaughter, the …
JNS Headlines
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie of New York critiqued some of the discourse when Syrian and Palestinian delegates referred to “the Israeli occupation of Palestine” and the “Zionist entity’s aggression.”
The post Baku summit illuminates problematic global sentiments, despite Azerbaijan’s history of strong relations with Israel appeared first on JNS.org.
“It’s important for the people of our community to know that this exists, to take a stand,” said the church’s president, Andy Reese.
The post Georgia church vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti plans to keep it a while appeared first on JNS.org.
One example of Jewish unity occurred amid last week’s rocket attacks. White City Shabbat in Tel Aviv expanded its oversubscribed Friday-night dinner for 1,000 to residents of southern Israel free of charge.
The post Annual Shabbat Project sees unprecedented participation in US, Israel and worldwide appeared first on JNS.org.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev maintained that “electronic communications, social networks and mass media have created grounds to turn hatred to a widespread system around the world” with “hate speech provoking instability around, incites war crimes and genocide.”
The post Jewish leaders applaud Azerbaijani multiculturalism at World Religious Leaders Summit appeared first on JNS.org.
“We fear significant civilian costs in Lebanon if Israel must act to defend its citizens because Hezbollah has positioned its massive arsenal in civilian areas—turning much of Lebanon’s population into human shields,” it read. “Hezbollah will bear the responsibility for that.”
The post Members of Congress send bipartisan letter to UN, urging it to confront Hezbollah appeared first on JNS.org.
“At the age of 20 on an online forum, I took part in a range of political discussions,” said Aberdeen North candidate Ryan Houghton. “These included terrorism, LGBT rights and anti-Semitism.”
The post UK Conservative Party candidate suspended over defamatory comments appeared first on JNS.org.
“If I have one message, it is that we stand shoulder to shoulder with you,” said U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein. “We always have, and we always will.”
The post Head of US Air Force visits Israel, meets with president and military leaders appeared first on JNS.org.
