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• Naftali Bennett: ‘Semi-citizenship’ for Diaspora Jews?

  February 17, 2014 9:11pm

  Israel’s Diaspora affairs minister told JTA that world Jewry “should have some sort of say” in the Israeli government’s affairs.

• On water, walkouts and German in the Knesset

  February 13, 2014 4:04am

  Why did members of the Jewish Home party walk out on a Knesset speech by the president of the European Parliament?

• Israeli breast cancer survivor filling a niche with nipples

  February 9, 2014 3:10pm

  Michelle Kolath-Arbel created Pink Perfect to provide prosthetic nipples for breast cancer patients like herself.

• Israeli coalition drama, February edition

  February 9, 2014 7:10am

  Another month, another wave of in-fighting in Israel’s governing coalition.

• Non-Orthodox say pluralist conversion institute not living up to promise

  February 6, 2014 11:34am

  An Israeli government conversion program intended to be pluralist is undergoing reforms in light of complaints from the Conservative and Reform movements in Israel.

• SodaStream vs. Oxfam, head to head

  February 5, 2014 11:14am

  Want to see Oxfam and SodaStream go mano a mano in the ScarJo kerfuffle? Here’s your chance.

• For some West Bank CEOs, no lost sleep over boycott threat

  February 4, 2014 3:40pm

  In the wake of the Scarlett Johansson SodaStream controversy, even with more talk of boycotts, not all Israeli businesses operating in the West Bank are concerned.

• At Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, Anne Heyman’s legacy lives on

  February 3, 2014 12:29pm

  Last month, JTA’s Ben Sales visited the youth village founded by philanthropist Anne Heyman.

• Three hours in Africa’s largest slum

  January 22, 2014 11:26am

  In the Nairobi slum of Kibera, a world of almost surreal poverty.

• In the start-up nation, a growing movement of corporate philanthropy

  January 20, 2014 5:21pm

  According to Hebrew University, Israeli corporate philanthropy soared nearly sevenfold between 1998 and 2008, and experts say the upward trend is continuing.