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- Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of Leonardo da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind
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- "Israel is bracing itself for war with Iranian proxies, as Tehran escalates its provocations. But what will the United States do if conflict comes?"
- "The economic and strategic ties between Israel and its Abraham Accord partners, as well as Saudi Arabia, are expanding faster than anyone could have imagined"
- “The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner, accounting for 32% of the economy: which means cutting Israel’s EU trade would be absolutely destructive to country’s economic survival”
- Don’t Want to Come to the Middle East? Stay in Europe and Kill Jews, IS Tells Aspiring Jihadis
Category Archives: Jewish
J Street’s 2014 bid to join the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations also was rejected
JTA J Street drops bid to join Zionist umbrella group June 17, 2021 J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, dropped its months-long bid to join the American Zionist movement, the umbrella body for U.S. pro-Israel groups. The … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged AZM, J Street, World Zionist Congress
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“Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett thanks President Joe Biden for his recent support for Israel during the Gaza war”
JNS Biden congratulates Bennett, agrees to work closely on regional security, Iran by Staff June 13, 2021 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday just hours after the Israeli leader was sworn into office. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Naftali Bennett
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Social psychologist Len Saxe says time is ripe for young Jews to make Birthright trip: “For this generation coming off the loneliness and emotional challenges of COVID, the hunger to engage with peers makes this a propitious moment to go to Israel”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) After a year away, Birthright participants return to Israel at critical time by Deborah Fineblum June 11, 2021 After more than a year of pandemic silence, Taglit-Birthright Israel participants have returned with all the … Continue reading
“In the hate business, antisemitism was always an easy sell and business is really good now”
JERUSALEM POST Anti-Israel rhetoric has always been about the Jews by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner June 10, 2021 …Israel’s hardcore critics reserved never-before-seen toxicity in their venomous assaults for this go-round. Israel’s antagonists used terms such as “disproportionate use of force,” “illegal,” … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Gaza, Hamas, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
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“While the 12 signees did the right thing, the fact that the other 13 Jewish Democrats—a majority of the caucus—refused to do so is an equally clear indication that even among Jews, support for Israel among Democrats is on the decline”
JNS Omar forces a difficult choice for Jewish Democrats by Jonathan Tobin June 10, 2021 After a surge in violent anti-Semitism inspired in no small part by vicious attacks on Israel by members of their party’s left-wing, some Jewish Democrats … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Brad Schneider, Democrats, Ilhan Omar, Palestinians
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BLM cofounder who called for Israel’s destruction to be UCLA keynote speaker
JEWISH JOURNAL UCLA Confirms BLM Co-founder Who Called to End “Project That’s Called Israel” Will Be Commencement Speaker by Aaron Bandler June 10, 2021 The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs confirmed to the Journal that Black Lives Matter (BLM) … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Patrisse Cullors, UCLA
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“Established in 1929 in the city’s central business district, the Chicago Loop Synagogue has primarily served office workers for much of its history”
THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER With commuter congregation waning, the Chicago Loop Synagogue faces an uncertain future by Aaron Smithson June 8, 2021 …According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Chicago Loop Synagogue’s membership has shrunk markedly in the last thirty years, … Continue reading
Scientific American article writers “are mostly young, Palestinian BDS activists who are clearly far more passionately involved in anti-Israel incitement than in promoting good healthcare and medicine”
CAMERA BLOG Scientific American Breaks 176-Year Legacy to Shill for Terrorists and Promote BDS by Ricki Hollander June 4, 2021 …On June 2, 2021, the newspaper published an “analysis article” that is being circulated as a petition by anti-Israel BDS … Continue reading
Israel bans sale of fur to fashion industry, first country to do so; “loophole exempts ultra-Orthodox Jews, who often wear cake-shaped sable hats known as shtreimels”
TIMES OF ISRAEL PETA hails Israel as first country to ban fur, but major exceptions remain by Staff June 9, 2021 Animal rights group PETA on Wednesday hailed Israel as “the first country in the world to ban the sale … Continue reading
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