By Shoshanna Solomon When 21-year old Joseph Sokol moved to Israel in 2014 to study in Jerusalem’s Yeshiva Machon Meir, he found paying his rent in Israel from a bank in hometown of Los Angeles very inconvenient. “I had to transfer money from one bank account to my Israeli account and then change the money […]
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International, Middle East, USABy Jessica Steinberg In “The Museum,” a documentary about Jerusalem’s Israel Museum, filmmaker Ran Tal takes viewers on a tour behind the scenes, offering a masterful view of the tremendous cultural institution in just 74 minutes. Tal does the job delicately and carefully, using a wide view of staff members and visitors to show how
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Middle EastAttendees of the fourth annual Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Muslim Jewish Women’s Leadership Conference held hands to form a circle around the entire room. Photos by Karen Mancinelli/Drew University Sheryl Olitzky, cofounder of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom (SOSS), stood up before a largely female audience of some 630 Muslims and Jews and said, “For
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Middle East, USAAn unprecedented joint declaration released Wednesday by Members of Congress and Knesset has laid our core principles for a new paradigm to end the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict ahead of an expected new push for Middle East peace by President Donald Trump. The declaration, signed by members of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC) and the
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Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with the leadership of the Jewish community in Hevron and the Chairman of the Yesha Council, who wished to thank him for his efforts to develop and strengthen the Jewish community in Hevron, and especially for the development of the Hezekiah quarter in the holy city. The meeting was attended
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Jews are just like everyone else, but different. Also Israel. The country of the Jews is like others, but different. This note is provoked by comment from an otherwise rational friend that Israel’s real borders are the Jordan and the Mediterranean. And his question about my description of Israeli Arabs. Was
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s our problem, actually, and we’ve made it theirs. It is the West that simultaneously wants “the Arab Spring” and “stability.” Democracy and strong government control. Honest government and stable kleptocrats. Check out our split-brain reaction to the Palestinian Authority. By rights, the U.S. should have nothing to do with
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — On the face of it, it doesn’t look good. Israel seems to be under threat from its neighbors, its friends in the Diaspora and its own politicians. 1A. In the South, Islamic Jihad in Gaza, with Hamas turning a blind eye, appears to be planning retaliation for the devastating
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Middle EastBy TOI staff A labor court on Thursday gave a former worker in the Prime Minister’s Residence three weeks to refile her claim in an abuse lawsuit filed against Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife. Judge Eyal Avrahami said that for the case to proceed, the charges had to be presented afresh to the Jerusalem
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Middle EastIndependent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on President Donald Trump to put aside his hardline politics and offer assistance to Iran after the country was hit Sunday by what’s become the deadliest earthquake of the year. With casualties having reached at least 452 people dead and thousands more injured, mostly in Iran, according
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Middle East, USABy TOI staff In a heated Knesset session Monday called by the opposition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed criticisms of his conduct and leadership, saying the left had had it in for him from the start. At a special plenum session called by 40 MKs, opposition leaders censured the prime minister on issues ranging from
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Middle EastChairman of the Yesh Atid party, MK Yair Lapid, responded Tuesday to the statements of Zionist Union Chairman Avi Gabbay, according to which he would agree to be “Number 2” to Lapid if the move yields more seats. “If Gabbay chooses me, I will also turn to the Likud because the state needs a national
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Middle EastMore than 70 years after World War II ended, 45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism”s holiest site. The survivors reached bar or bat mitzvah age during the war or immediately afterwards, but
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being
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