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This op-ed was first published on eJewishPhilanthropy.com. Last week, a 26-year-old Jewish educator named Jessie Sander filed a lawsuit against her former employer, a flagship Reform synagogue, claiming she was fired because of her anti-Zionist beliefs, in violation of New York State law. While I cannot speak to the legal claim, I have been thinking about the value of inclusivity which many Jewish organizations espouse
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admin | February 11, 2022
Yossi Beilin, a former senior Israeli official and peace negotiator who co-founded the Geneva Initiative, poses for a photo at his house in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 6. Israeli and Palestinian public figures, including Beilin and Hiba Husseini, a former legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team, have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation.
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THE University and College Union (UCU) and the National Union of Students (NUS) condemned Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi today for threatening the preservation of democratic freedoms over his comments about Palestinian supporters. In an interview with the Jewish Chronicle, Mr Zahawi called for students who chant in solidarity with Palestinians to be reported to the police. He was referring to the slogan from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is widely used by protesters, incorrectly claiming thatthe chant supported Hamas.
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Turkey normalizing relations with Israel would not mean a change in Ankara's Palestine policy, Foreign Minister Mevlt avuolu said Thursday. Speaking to public broadcaster TRT Haber, avuolu drew attention to comments he made earlier this week that Turkey will not turn its back on its commitment to a Palestinian state in order to broker closer ties with Israel.
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PALESTINE Head coach J.J.
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The Palestinian village of Tantura before the 1948 massacre. (Photo: Matson collection, via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud A succession of events in recent weeks all points to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israels painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth about its origins and its current racially-driven apartheid regime are miserably failing.
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admin | February 11, 2022
Ashkenazic Approach Many Ashkenazic yeshiva students wear their tzitzit out, in line with the Mishna Beruras (8:26) powerful exhortation to do so. The Chafetz Chaim famously writes: Those men who tuck their tzitzit in their pants, not only are they ignoring the Torahs direction ureitem oto, you should see the tzitzit and thereby recall all the mitzvot (Bamidbar 15:39), they are degrading Hashems mitzvot and will be held accountable by Hashem for having done so!! The Mishna Berura writes that if one received a special garment from the king with the latters name carved in it, he would proudly display it at all times. How much more so should we show the garment of the King of all Kings, Whose Holy Name is alluded to in the tying of the tzitzit! The Aruch Hashulhan (Orah Haim 8:17), while using milder language, expresses a similar sentiment
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Lifelong Five Towns resident David Friedman, the former ambassador to Israel under President Trump, along with wife, Tammy, will be honored by the Chabad of the Five Towns as Ambassadors of Light, at the religious organizations 27th annual gala dinner on Feb. 15. While the Friedmans have a deep history of Jewish involvement in the Five Towns, Davids father was Morris Friedman, an iconic figure in the Jewish community, who was one of the founders of the modern Orthodox movement and was the spiritual leader at Temple Hillel in North Woodmere.
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admin | February 11, 2022
A top UK Jewish body said on Wednesday that far-right Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smotrich is not welcome in the country, as he tours Britain. The Board of Deputies of British Jews, UK Jewrys mainstream umbrella organization, tweeted in Hebrew that they reject the abominable views and the hate-provoking ideology of Bezalel Smotrich. We call on all members of the British Jewish community to show him the door
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Good morning, New York. Jewish Bronx-born comedian and actor Robert Klein turns 80 today. I was in the DeWitt Clinton High School marching band, he has joked.
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