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Netanyahu denies saying Israel’s biggest enemies are N.Y. Times, Haaretz
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office denied that Benjamin Netanyahu told the editor of The Jerusalem Post that Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz, and the editor has backtracked. Read more »
Where do Israeli haredim stand on haredi violence?
The tendency to blame the haredi sector as a whole for the recent violence in Beit Shemesh is fueled both by the difficulty that outsiders have discerning shades of gray in that community and by the ambivalence within the haredi world itself toward using violence to achieve religious aims. Read more »
In a remote New Mexico valley, a Jewish skiing legacy at Taos
Ernie Blake, the founder of Taos Ski Valley, was a larger-than-life character who fled prewar Germany to became an interrogator of Nazis and later founder of New Mexico's largest ski area. Read more »
At Reform biennial, energy, Obama and handwringing over the next generation
As the Reform movement looks beyond its largest biennial conference in history, the question of how to stem the exodus of young Jews looms large. Read more »
Can Reform Jews be politically conservative? Yes, say the ‘1 percent’
Nonpartisanship long has been a challenge in Judaism's Reform movement, which is so closely identified with signature Democratic positions like women’s reproductive rights, gay equality and social welfare issues. Read more »
Bibi adviser Ron Dermer to NYT: No Op-Ed for you!
Why did Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, decline a chance to have an Op-Ed by Benjamin Netanyahu appear in The New York Times? Because he feels the paper isn’t giving Israel a fair shake, with 19 of the last 20 Israel-related Op-Eds taking a negative view of Israel. Dermer explains in his letter to the Times declining the Op-Ed offer: Read more »
In bid for Russia’s presidency, Prokhorov takes another gamble
With his announcement that he’ll be running against Vladimir Putin for Russia’s presidency, Mikhail Prokhorov, the billionaire businessman with Jewish roots who owns the New Jersey Nets, finally showed his hand on why he bought a majority stake in the perennial NBA basement-dwellers from Newark a couple years back: insurance. Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 02/10/12 @ 02:44PM EST
- Cat Power canceled an Israeli show that was to have taken place Sunday, citing fans' concerns about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Three Jewish groups that favor insurance coverage of contraceptives praised President Obama's comrpromise allowing religious institutions to direct staff to alternative health care plans funding such services.
- An Obama administration official said the United States urged Israel not to free Palestinian terrorists in the Gilad Shalit exchange deal who killed Americans.
- Turkey will never endorse a military strike on Iran, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a Washington audience.
- Israel's test of a missile defense system was declared a "major milestone" in its efforts to establish viable barriers to a missile strike.
- Citing Palestinian conflict, rocker Cat Power cancels Tel Aviv show
- Reform, Hadassah, JWI praise Obama contraceptives compromise
- Holder: U.S. urged Israel not to release killers of Americans
- Turkish FM: We will never endorse striking Iran
- Israeli missile defense test a ‘milestone’
- Sarkozy: Iran solution should be non-military
- Marines’ SS photo condemned by Jewish groups
- Grandson of Auschwitz survivor takes the ice for Germany
