Judaism

TeleSur | – – Three U.S. senators introduced a bill calling for U.S. embassy to be relocated to Jerusalem and recognizing city as Israeli capital. As it convened for the first Tuesday of the New Year, the new U.S. Congress made one of its primary orders of business the introduction of a bill to move […]

Haredim

Can Israeli institutions include both more Women and more Gender-Segregating Orthodox?

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Shulamit Almog | (The Conversation) | – – In one sense, women are making great strides in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). In October, the army declared it was examining the possibility of allowing women to serve in new combat positions, including in tank crews. In the same month, Major Reut (whose last name is […]

Antisemitism

Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era

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By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong. The past few days have witnessed a bizarre pile-up of prominent Israel-supporters going out of their way to defend or excuse what seem […]

Christianity

Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East

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by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN | ( ISLAMiCommentary) | – – Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville How did the rise of nation-states in the 20th century doom religious diversity and pluralism in the Middle East? And, can pluralism be recovered to heal and transform the Middle East? Veteran journalist […]

Haredim

Israel’s “chained women” fight for right to divorce

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By Michael Blum | ( Your Middle East | – – Israel’s “chained women” fight for right to divorce. She is one of Israel’s “chained women” — the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wives denied a divorce by their husbands and prevented from breaking free by the country’s use of Jewish law. The 30-year-old mother of […]

Holocaust

Muslims who saved Jews from Holocaust Honored (& Case of Albania)

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Interfaith Peacemakers | – – [N.B. The interfaith ‘I am your Protector” Campaign, founded by Dani Laurence, last week commemorated in several cities the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust. Laurence told Alarabiya, “”The way Muslims are often portrayed in the media, public discourses can lead to fear and hatred. I Am Your Protector […]

Islam

Violent clashes in Jerusalem fed by extreme Israeli counter-measures

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By Yoav Galai | (The Conversation) | – – On the evening of Monday September 14, Alex Levlovich was driving back from the Rosh-Hashana Seder, the celebration of the Jewish new year, along the road that separates the Jewish neighbourhood of Armon Hanatziv and the Palestinian neighbourhood of Tsur Bahir in East Jerusalem when the […]

Islam

Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa

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By IMEMC News | – – PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015. Both parties discussed the latest political developments, including Israel’s persistent assaults and escalating incursions and violence on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Al-Haram Al-Sharif) […]

Jewish History

Israel: Rosh Hashanah Dancing Robots – Happy New Year with a Technion Touch

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Technion | Shana Tova – Video| – – “Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has the touch to get you ready for the New Year – a robot picks a pomegranate from the tree in the Seven Species Garden outside the CEAR lab in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and his friends travel across campus […]