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Israel's Noam Bettan takes 2nd at Eurovision, buoyed by scrutinized public vote
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (301+ words) It was the second straight year that Israel fell just short of a win. The Israeli contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest won second place for the second year in a row, drawing a strong public vote despite protests over…...
German court allows pro-Palestinian encampment in Hamburg park where Jews were deported by the Nazis
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (860+ words) We " the Jews of Hamburg " are deeply concerned about this," Hamburg's chief rabbi said. Activists in Hamburg are commemorating the displacement of Palestinians this week in a park where Jews were deported during World War II, following a legal fight…...
Pacific Palisades Jews, displaced by fire, reopen their synagogue as part of returning home
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (614+ words) Sixteen months after fires ravaged the Los Angeles neighborhood, Kehillat Israel is open again. Sixteen months after the fires that devastated the Pacific Palisades and uprooted hundreds of Jewish families, congregants of Kehillat Israel are returning to their synagogue. On…...
Israel can survive criticism. But can we survive silencing our moral responsibility in the face of moral inconsistency?
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (752+ words) Acknowledging that two things can be true at once is a Jewish value, writes a rabbi. A dangerous instinct is on the rise in the Jewish world right now: the belief that we must choose between defending Israel and defending…...
Talarico won't campaign with Democratic House candidate who wants to open 'a prison for American Zionists"
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (940+ words) Maureen Galindo is facing a primary runoff in her San Antonio-area district. Maureen Galindo, the housing activist and conspiracy theorist whose rants about "billionaire Zionists" have defined her pursuit of a U. S. House seat in Texas, is within spitting distance of…...
Jewish Rep. Steve Cohen will not run for reelection after Tennessee GOP redraws his district
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (643+ words) Cohen also took issue with a Republican rival calling him "an old, white Jewish guy." Rep. Steve Cohen, the Jewish Democrat from Tennessee at the center of a controversial Republican-led redistricting push, announced Friday that he will not seek reelection....
This Jewish lawyer is running against a rabbi to represent the Upper West Side in Albany
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1126+ words) Eli Northrup has Bernie Sanders" backing "and a complex relationship with the word "Zionism." To explain his outlook on Israel, Eli Northrup, a candidate for New York State Assembly on Manhattan"s Upper West Side, reaches into his bag and…...
Amid Eurovision tensions, Israelis find allies in Austria's youth Green party and a cafe
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (509+ words) Israel's participation in this year's Eurovision has sparked protests and political backlash across Europe, but some Austrians are rallying publicly behind the country's delegation. As anti-Israel boycotts and protests roiled this year's Eurovision song contest in Vienna, some Israelis attending…...
Cornell trustees back Jewish president after confrontation with pro-Palestinian protesters
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (667+ words) The protesters who had blocked Michael Kotlikoff's car also will not face penalties. Cornell University's Jewish president will not be penalized for a recent campus altercation with pro-Palestinian protesters who had surrounded his car following a campus debate on Israel,…...
'The Wanderers' tells the story of Poland's Holocaust survivors who fled to the Soviet Union
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (947+ words) Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived not in concentration camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Sibera. Like many Holocaust survivors, Daniela Gerson's grandparents lived by the vow to "never forget,…...