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How many refugees has Israel accepted in 64 years?

From the Presidents Conference in Jerusalem in June 2012, Jewish leaders were asked a single question: “Since 1948, how many non-Jewish people has the State of Israel accepted as refugees?” Due notice...

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And you thought American elections ads were bad

Have you entered Jewschool and Mah Rabu’s elections predictions pool? Monday, January 21st at midnight EST is your last chance to enter!  I’m finding two big differences between American and Israeli...

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Mishegas: MLK, Phillip Roth, Mel Brooks and Hitler

Above, the Jewish Food Justice Fellowship launches in Southern California. Should the Jews make Martin Luther King Jr. Day about Israel? Stuart Appelbaum of the Jewish Labor Committee says MLK’s...

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2013 Knesset Elections Results

According to Israel’s Channel 2 TV news, this is the breakdown of the next Knesset: Likud Beiteinu: 31 (-11) Yesh Atid: 19 (+11) Labor: 17 (+9) The Jewish Home: 12 (+7) Shas: 12 (+2) HaTnua: 7 (+7)...

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Apply for the 2013 Hollander Social Justice Fellowship — due Thursday

Do you have a social justice cause you are passionate about and want to pursue with the NHC Summer Institute community? Apply for the Hollander Social Justice Fellowship! You will receive a scholarship...

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“Liberating” the Western Wall — again

This morning in Jerusalem, the Women of the Wall brought heavy Israeli symbolism along with 150 participants to their monthly peaceful protest — three of the IDF veterans who captured the wall in the...

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Action alert: Eritrean asylum seekers to be deported

From the young activists in Israel with Amnesty International, an urgent appeal to Diaspora Jews who remember the times when we were refugees: STOP THE DEPORTATION OF 25 ERITREAN ASLYUM SEEKERS FROM...

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Ultra-orthodox call for protest rally against Women of the Wall; support...

This weekend, a poster appeared all over ultra-orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem against Women of the Wall‘s fight for gender equality at holy sites in Israel. The poster calls for ultra-Orthodox...

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A Newly Feminist Knesset — Sort Of (Updated)

Updated: New ministerial positions were appointed since time of publishing, including two more women. There are 53 new faces in the 19th Knesset — 16 of them women. With the 11 women who retained their...

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Service learning programs in Israel will widen the generation gap — thankfully

At the Forward, Repair the World and the Jewish Agency present their new study of service learning opportunities for young North American Jews. They argue that addressing societal needs in Israel — a...

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Naftali Bennett interrupted at MASA bash by anti-annexation chants

Thirty young MASA participants and other young Diaspora Jews stood up at their program’s end-year bash to interrupt the address of Minister of Knesset Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Jewish...

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This is Not an Ulpan

While I deeply love learning Hebrew, ulpan often hurts my heart. I can’t help but bristle at prejudicial Israeli attitudes that go against the anti-oppression work that bring many of us there. Be they...

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Two Prayers for Syria (and updated with more)

What can we pray about Syria? As the United States looks to enter the fray of a Syrian civil war, concerned American Jews and Israelis are penning responses in prayer. Shared here are two recent...

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Anthony Weiner and angry Jewish voter discuss forgiveness

This via our friends at HEEB, just in time for Rosh Hashanah, an exchange on the nature of forgiveness, leadership, judgement and God between an angry Jewish voter and New York mayoral candidate...

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Israel mishegas: Tel Aviv’s gay Shoah memorial, new fellowships, and fascists

Tel Aviv will build its first holocaust memorial to gay victims in Gan Meir next to Tel Aviv Municipality’s LGBTQ Center. Other cities with one already: Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sydney and San...

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This event would be hilarious, if Sheldon Adelson weren’t totally serious

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Young American Jews arrested in Hebron on Shabbat Hayei Sarah

This just in, just in time for this year’s Project Hayei Sarah: Members of All That’s Left, a collective of activists committed to ending the occupation, marked the eve of ‘Shabbat Chayei Sarah’ by...

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Fear-mongering on Iran meets LOLcatz

They say mockery is highest form of flattery, right? A web commentator (who prefers to remain anonymous) forwarded around this graffitied explanation of The Israel Project’s latest infographic. This is...

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Action alert: Tell Israel to halt bill to imprison African refugees

I’ll never understand why Israeli leaders — who annually welcome some 150,000+ migrant workers into the country from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe — are continually trying to deport, imprison and...

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Obama makes Thanksgivingukah statement

Whether you love it or hate it, “Thanksgivingukah” has reached the highest political echelon of America: President Barak Obama issued a Thanksgivingukah best wishes. Complete with recipes for the dual...

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