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Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:30:44 +0000
Top Abbas advisers urge Palestinian statehood with ‘soft’ sovereignty
Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, seasoned negotiators with Israel, propose Jordan and Egypt taking on security roles, and Saudi normalization if settlement expansion ends

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:38:45 +0000
Party leaders cast ballots, calling on public to produce a ‘decisive result’
Series of prominent politicians make final pitches to supporters in closely contested Knesset vote, warning of possibility of fifth election since 2019

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:16:43 +0000
137 killed in Niger’s deadliest suspected jihadist massacre
Attack brings the number of fatalities in the Mali-Niger border region to 236 in just over a week

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:00:27 +0000
The painfully complex act of voting in an Israeli election
The electoral system is simple: Voters have one choice to make, and there are no regional constituencies or extra chambers of parliament. So why is it so complicated?

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:15:02 +0000
Hebrew College announces relocation plan to growing suburban Boston campus
Temple Reyim’s campus in Newton is already home to mikveh, education center, and Jewish after-school program

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:11:18 +0000
Rome food delivery man goes on anti-Semitic rant, stabs man who protests
Alleged victim suffers lacerations to his face; stabber escapes scene on motorcycle; unclear if either men Jewish

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:58:32 +0000
Turnout, fate of small parties crucial as polls open for 6.5 million Israelis
Netanyahu has gained ground at rivals' expense in campaign's final stretch as virus vaccines kick in; count could take longer than usual; few COVID patients register to vote

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:21:23 +0000
‘A total JAP’: NJ newspaper sorry for using anti-Semitic epithet
Asbury Park Press apologizes to Jewish and Asian American communities after offensive caption left up for 14 hours

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:53:30 +0000
For Arab Israelis, it all hinges on turnout as Ra’am hovers at voter threshold
Polls project drop in Arab vote from 2020, when Joint List scored 15 seats; now the party is poised to drop to 7 or 8, and Ra'am, which split off from it, may not make it in

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:17:52 +0000
Jewish Theological Seminary names first woman as dean of its rabbinical school
Rabbi Jan Uhrbach succeeds Rabbi Daniel Nevins as head of Conservative Judaism’s flagship seminary

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:06:46 +0000
Brazilian Jews file complaint over politician who said Jews sacrifice children
Labor party leader Roberto Jefferson dismisses Jewish complaints as 'clowning;' Instagram removes his post

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:32:09 +0000
Historian turns obsessive 78s collector to preserve North African Jewish music
In the first archive of its kind, Prof. Chris Silver possesses about 500 albums recorded by Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian Jewish vocalists and instrumentalists

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:37:30 +0000
10 people, including policeman, killed in shooting in Colorado grocery
Police say they have suspect in custody; handcuffed middle-aged White man seen taken shirtless and bleeding from building; motive for shooting not immediately clear

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:58:11 +0000
With more absentee ballots than ever, vote aftermath may be fuzzier than usual
Officials expecting up to 600,000 people to cast so-called double-envelope votes -- enough for 15 seats, challenging exit polls and sparking fears of chaos until fog clears

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:52:02 +0000
NJ Jewish paper apologizes for vaccination joke about shooting Palestinians
A satyrical article published for Purim by The Jewish Link tried to joke that shooting 100,000 Palestinians referred to COVID-19 'shots'; was condemned by local Muslim groups



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