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Your vote in Israel: Here are the Bay Area Jews running for the World Zionist Congress – The Jewish News of Northern California

| March 4, 2020

Election season is heating up. No, not that election. The other one, taking place now to elect delegates to the 38th World Zionist Congress, which will take place in October in Jerusalem

And what if Israel’s Zionist left joins forces with the Joint List’s 15 seats? – Haaretz

| March 4, 2020

There are 15 Knesset seats rolling around in the street that no one wants to touch; 12.5 percent of the seats in Israels next Knesset will remain unoccupied. True, flesh-and-blood people will sit in them, representatives who were voted into office in a free election, but they have a fatal flaw that disqualifies them from Israeli politics. Theyre Arabs

Documentary depicts Jewish experience in Argentina – The Justice

| March 4, 2020

The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies hosted a screening of Next Year in Argentina, a film about Argentinas Jewish diaspora, on Feb.

The Labor Zionist movement and the bombing of Auschwitz – Arutz Sheva

| March 4, 2020

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New Books | The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine – newframe.com

| March 4, 2020

This is an excerpt of Rashid Khalidis The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (Profile Books, 2020) In 1917, Arthur James Balfour stated that in Palestine, the British government did not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country. The great powers were committed to Zionism, he continued, and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land. One hundred years later, President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israels capital, saying, We took Jerusalem off the table, so we dont have to talk about it anymore

From Aalst to America: The Post-Modern, Anti-Jewish Reconfiguration of the West – The Jewish Voice

| March 4, 2020

The real cause of the descent into anti-Zionism and hatred of Jews is secular liberalism, and the cultural fissure that has opened up along fault lines stretching back to the 18th-century Enlightenment By: Melanie Phillips The annual parade in Aalst, Belgium, last Sunday turned into a carnival of monstrous Jew-hatred. Participants portrayed Jews as insects topped with furshtreimelhats andpeyot(sidelocks). Others were dressed in Nazi uniforms, among other vicious Jewish caricatures, libels and insults

Smotrich: We were spared from a Gantz government – Inside Israel – Arutz Sheva

| March 4, 2020

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina) spoke to Arutz Sheva following the publication of the exit polls which predicted a majority for the right. This is a very happy evening for the State of Israel and the people of Israel

15 Inspiring Egyptian Community Work Activists and Organizations in the Last Decade – Egyptian Streets

| March 4, 2020

15 Inspiring Egyptian Community Work Activists and Organizations in the Last Decade In the last decade, the culture of volunteering and carrying out community-minded projects that extend beyond charity have grown in many different and diverse ways. Science and technology in particular have helped expand the outreach to beneficiaries in more effective and innovative ways, prime examples of that include Magdi Yacoub, whose brilliant scientific achievements helped him build his foundation, as well as Bassitas Clickfunding model, which generates funds for social causes through social media campaigns. Hans Rosling, a global health professor at Swedens Karolinska Institute, noticed that nations usually classified as developing are increasingly finding ways to develop the social sector despite economic disadvantages, and are achieving more progress in social sectors than developed economies

The religious right got up in arms about LGBTQ curriculum. This out board member responded. – LGBTQ Nation

| March 4, 2020

Jersey City Board Member Gerald Lyons speaks about the LGBTQ History curriculum.Photo: Screenshot via Facebook Gerald Lyons is an openly gay member of the Board of Education for Jersey City, New Jersey. He sat and listened to over 3 hours of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from religious figures while debating the upcoming LGBTQ History curriculum. Tonight, members of three religious groups came to the School Board meeting to attack the LGBTQ community, Lyons later wrote.

‘It’s a scary world out there’: Women share stories of pain, resilience in face of anti-Semitism – Omaha World-Herald

| March 4, 2020

Two women shared an Omaha stage Tuesday to talk about how to light the darkness. One was an Emmy-winning journalist, the daughter of Greek immigrants whose grandmother was part of a tiny Greek island community that heroically hid a Jewish family from Nazis searching door to door for them during World War II. The Nazis threatened to burn down the island


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