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Oscars 2018: For Jewish nominees, a night not to remember

Mar 08, 2018 1 Comment

Fifty years ago, Bob Hope’s films were wildly popular, but the comedian was never nominated for an Academy Award.
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Israeli women battle for their rights

Mar 08, 2018 Go comment!

The once sleepy, largely secular city, Beit Shemesh, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, has become the premier battleground between ultra-Orthodox, secular and modern Orthodox Jews. At the forefront are its women.
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British soccer head apologises for Star of David blunder

Mar 08, 2018 Go comment!

The head of England’s governing body of soccer has apologised for conflating the Star of David and the Nazi swastika.
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Closing the church in protest has caused much frustration

Mar 01, 2018 Go comment!

It was a strange sight. For a few days this week, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City – built on the spot where Christians believe Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected – was closed.
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Can Netanyahu become the longest-serving Israeli leader?

Feb 22, 2018 1 Comment

The next Israeli parliamentary elections must be held by November 5 2019. If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can remain in office until then, he will be Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, overtaking the state’s founder David Ben-Gurion. The question is: Can he?
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Police recommend charging Netanyahu

Feb 15, 2018 Go comment!

Israeli police this week recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted for a series of corruption charges, including bribery, fraud and breach of trust. They believed they had collected enough evidence to bring the cases to trial.
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The might of Russia in the Middle East

Feb 15, 2018 Go comment!

When countries cannot talk to each other, they send messages through actions. This was the case on Saturday.
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Gold claims bronze at Winter Olympics

Feb 15, 2018 Go comment!

The first medal to be won by a Jewish competitor at this year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has gone to American snowboarder Arielle Gold. She earned a bronze medal in the women’s halfpipe contest.
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Police investigating two anti-Semitic incidents in UK football

Feb 15, 2018 Go comment!

Two cases of anti-Semitic language used by soccer fans at English soccer matches are being investigated by the Football Association (FA) and the police.
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Can BDS be stopped through the law?

Feb 08, 2018 1 Comment

Calls for boycotts against Israel are nothing new, and in recent years the BDS movement has gained traction internationally. But ask the average Israeli what s/he thinks, and they’re neither fazed nor worried about it. It’s a different type of anti-Semitism, most tell me, adding that it doesn’t matter what Israel does or doesn’t do, the international community will try to line up against her.
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Germany recognises Algerian Jews as Holocaust survivors

Feb 08, 2018 Go comment!

Nearly 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, 25 000 elderly Algerian Jews are being recognised for the first time as Holocaust survivors by the German government.
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Apps for Olim Chadashim and tourists in Israel

Feb 08, 2018 Go comment!

It’s a sign of the times. You can fight it, avoid it or convince yourself you don’t need it, but a year into our move to Israel, there is no doubt that technology has helped to soften our landing. These are some of the apps we’ve been using as we acclimatise to a new country.
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Is covering Sara Netanyahu’s histrionics good journalism?

Feb 01, 2018 Go comment!

The Israeli media loves to hate Sara Netanyahu, wife of the incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This week, a leaked audio recording of her yelling and scolding a family publicist over a gossip column, published nine years ago, only served to increase that dislike.
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Poland’s move to ban the term ‘Polish death camps’

Feb 01, 2018 Go comment!

Poland’s parliamentary bill, passed last week to criminalise the use of the term “Polish death camps”, prompted an avalanche of criticism in Israel by officials and individuals, who warned that it is excessive and risks stifling research on the Holocaust.
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In this West African country, a Jewish community is forming

Feb 01, 2018 Go comment!

Avraham Yago, a married father of five who works as a linguistics professor at the University of Abidjan in the West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire, has visited Israel four times to learn about Judaism and practise his Hebrew.
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Winter Olympics 2018: five Jewish storylines to watch

Feb 01, 2018 Go comment!

The world is about to revolve around Pyeongchang, a mountainous county in the northern half of South Korea, for the upcoming Winter Olympics.
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Uganda’s Jews not Jewish enough, says Israel

Jan 25, 2018 Go comment!

A remote community of Ugandan Jews, who live an Orthodox way of life, pray every day to live in the so-called land of milk and honey - but Israel will not take them in, claiming they are not Jewish enough.
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The Turkish-US-Kurdish conundrum

Jan 25, 2018 1 Comment

This past week, Turkish tanks rolled across the border and entered northern Syria. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been threatening to do this for a while. Now that he has, the US finds itself in a bit of a fix.
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Mystery around deaths of a Canadian billionaire couple

Jan 25, 2018 Go comment!

There was no sign of forced entry on the cold December morning when a Canadian billionaire businessman and his wife were found dead inside their mansion, reportedly hanging from a railing at the edge of their indoor pool.
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Gymnastics champ Raisman lambastes Olympic Committee over abuse scandal

Jan 25, 2018 Go comment!

Star gymnast Aly Raisman, one of dozens of young American athletes who have testified that they were sexually abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar, has slammed the US Olympic Committee for not acknowledging its role in the scandal.
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