WASHINGTON (JTA) – It’s the perennial anomaly of Jewish voter surveys: Vast majorities feel an attachment to Israel, but relatively few are thinking about the Jewish state when they cast …
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RON KAMPEAS
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12/10/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – IKEA Israel will stop selling disposable plastic items and stop using them in its cafeterias.
The stores also will replace plastic straws with paper straws and provide …
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11/5/19
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(JTA) – The recently elected Oslo City Council is getting right to work: The Norwegian lawmakers are banning the purchase of goods and services from Israeli Jewish settlements by municipal …
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10/31/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – A court in Israel has blocked the sale of a letter written by an 11-year-old Polish girl who was killed in the Holocaust, following a protest by family members.
Five …
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10/31/19
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(JTA) – An Israeli windsurfer is one step closer to qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after earning the silver medal in the world championships.
Katy Spychakov, 20, came in second Sept. …
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10/2/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Was it the most amazing shawarma platter ever?
At $2,800, one would hope so.
That’s what one tourist was charged for the plate by a Jerusalem restaurant …
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MARCY OSTER
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9/19/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The morning after Israel’s second national election in five months, the results are still unclear.
According to the latest vote count, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trailing his rival, Benny Gantz, by the slimmest of margins: The incumbent’s Likud and the challenger’s Blue and White remain within a seat of each other.
More important, neither candidate appears able to form a governing coalition outright with allies on the right or the left. In the 120-seat Knesset, the right won 55 seats and its opposition, comprised of the left and center, won 56. But 61 seats are needed for a majority.
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MARCY OSTER
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9/18/19
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(JTA) — “I’ve been kidnapped,” a voice can be heard saying in Hebrew in the opening of a new HBO series about the lead-up to the 2014 Gaza War.
It’s Gilad Shaer, a 16-year-old …
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Josefin Dolsten
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8/29/19
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TEL AVIV — Shlomit Norman was only 42 when doctors diagnosed her with multiple myeloma — a bone marrow cancer with no known cure that rarely strikes people under the age of 65.
At the time, …
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Larry Luxner
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8/26/19
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Israel’s next spacecraft will shoot higher than the moon
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Marcy Oster
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6/26/19
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