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  • All smiles at Shimon Peres’ birthday confab

    Iran’s nuclear program isn’t stopping. The death count in Syria gets higher every day. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict shows no signs of being solved in the near future. You wouldn’t know it, though, from Israel’s Presidential Conference – a gathering of world leaders, celebrities and opinion-makers presented by Shimon Peres, Israel’s eternal optimist and soon-to-be 90-year-old… More ▸

  • Defending Irwin Cotler

    JTA has received a number of responses to an opinion piece this week suggesting that a Canadian lawmaker and former minister of justice was not involved in broad-based human rights work. More ▸

  • Bogey Yaalon rides a chopper and gets a Hagel hug

    Bogey Yaalon rides the Osprey and surfs Chuck Hagel’s good will. More ▸

  • Happy 90th, Shimon Peres!

    For his 90th birthday, Shimon Peres hosted numerous politicians and celebrities and spoke of his life and his vision of peace for the future. More ▸

  • Poetry is for warriors

    An officer in the IDF stopped a soldier from reading personal poetry on the radio because it would “ruin the image of a combat soldier.” More ▸

  • Pinkwashing: The sequel(s)

    Taking pinkwashing to the next level. More ▸

  • What does an Orthodox woman’s ordination certificate look like?

    Tomorrow, I’ll have a longer story about Rabbi Avi Weiss’ controversial ordination of three Orthodox women on Sunday. But in the meantime, check out the sample ordination certificate, or klaf, provided to one of the first graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, Weiss’ school for the training of women as “rabbinic leaders.” More ▸

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