Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist who fiercely defended Israel, is dead at 68
The Pulitizer Prize-winner wrote earlier this month that he had an aggressive form of cancer and had weeks to live.
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Detention facilities or ‘concentration camps’? A debate on names invokes the Nazis.
Politicians, pundits and historians are weighing in on how to describe the shelters for child migrants.
Life & Culture
Non-religious Israelis can now ask for Shabbat days off
Employees of any religion previously had to prove that they were religiously observant in order to take off for their day of rest.
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Israel & Middle East
The number of people deemed not Jewish enough to marry in Israel has doubled over 7 years
Some 6,727 names appear on the Chief Rabbinate’s list of those deemed unable to marry as a Jew in Israel.
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World
In Sweden, Jews and Muslims united around Israeli flags at a gay pride parade
Malmo, a city notorious for its anti-Semitism, has seen several small-scale interfaith efforts try to improve the situation.
