admin | March 28, 2020
The much-loved rabbi of Edgware and Hendon Reform synagogue has died suddenly from coronavirus. Rabbi Neil Kraft, who wasborn and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, spent 17 years leading the community and was due to retire in a matter of weeks. He appeared unwell in shul last weekend after conducting part of the Shabbat service via a live stream.
admin | March 28, 2020
Israeli politicians, with their famous lack of principles and shifting priorities, often make fools of prognosticators trying to discern the direction in which the country is headed. Along the way, they also tend to make fools of their own supporters, or anyone who placed a cautious amount of faith in them
admin | March 28, 2020
JERUSALEM, Israel As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, disinformation about COVID-19 thrives on the internet. It includes a dangerous blame game and some are pointing the finger at historys main scapegoat, the Jewish people. Of course the usual suspects.
admin | March 28, 2020
Monica Sager, Scarlet StaffMarch 27, 2020 On February 7, Noor Almaslamani published an article titled A Stateless State?
admin | March 28, 2020
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS)It seems like a devastating argument. If Israeli Jews are willing to accept life-saving treatment from Arab doctors, why wont they give their representatives in the Knesset a seat in the countrys government
admin | March 28, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) Ben Chouake is an emergency physician with a side gig: He leads NORPAC, a leading pro-Israel political action committee. I check in occasionally with Chouake to see how the New Jersey-based PAC is doing, whats on its agenda.
admin | March 28, 2020
http://www.drew.edu/center-rel... In this edition of Reflections, Jonathan Golden, Director of Drew University's Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict, addresses the implications of alarming trends to "point fingers" and assign blame for our current pandemic The COVID-19 virus is "double blind" in the sense that it sees not who it infects nor is it seen by its victims. Still, as social beings, we humans have a hard time avoiding our tendency to put all phenomena into social categories
admin | March 28, 2020
Intelligence Subcommittee chairman Gabi Ashkenazi (Blue and White) on Thursday started to wrestle with the government regarding oversight of the controversial surveillance by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) of citizens infected with the coronavirus.Both Ashkenazis committee and a special Coronavirus Committee chaired by Blue and White MK Ofer Shelach were pressing top officials in an extraordinary public hearing of a committee which usually does not even let the public know when it meets, let alone make the debate public. National Security Council chief Meir Ben Shabbat, Shin Bet officials, Health Ministry officials Moshe Bar Siman Tov and Sigal Sedensky and Deputy Attorney-General Raz Nizri were pressed for more detailed answers than they have had to give until now
admin | March 28, 2020
The Stars Group (TSG) chief executive Rafi Ashkenazi will not take up the post of COO at the combined Flutter/Stars company as planned when the two giants merge. In a market update Friday, Stars said Ashkenazi will instead be available as a consultant to CEO Peter Jackson.
admin | March 28, 2020
After three national elections, a worldwide pandemic, months of a government operating with no new budget, a prime minister indicted in three criminal cases, and a genuine constitutional crisis between the parliament and the supreme court, Israel has landed bruised and damaged where it could have been a year ago. This week, Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz opted to break with half of his party and move toward joining caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a new government
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