Israel will begin receiving vaccinated tourists from abroad through a phased plan that will begin on May 23, the Israeli Tourism Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. …
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4/14/21
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The ancient blood libel — “Jews are poisoners,” used to stoke anti-Semitic violence through the ages, from the Black Death to tainted wells — has reappeared. This time, it …
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By Edwin Black
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4/7/21
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Shortly after emigrating to Israel in 1901, this Telz-educated orphaned son of a rosh yeshiva earned an unlikely nickname: “the crazy fly-catcher.” Israel Aharoni’s odyssey into …
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By Henry Abramson
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3/24/21
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The last thing Gov. Andrew Cuomo needed last week was another crisis where he’s assigned the role of villain.But that’s what he got Tuesday night, when two newspapers reported his plan to …
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By Ed Weintrob
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3/10/21
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As vehicles pulled into the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC campus in Lawrence on Sunday, staff and volunteers helped 150 seniors, including 60 Holocaust survivors, to receive a first dose of the …
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By Jeffrey Bessen, Nassau Herald
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3/3/21
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A comedian telling a bad joke that hurts someone’s feelings isn’t news. Or at least it didn’t use to be.
But when the bad joke validates a lie that is fueling the latest …
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Commentary by Jonathan S. Tobin
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2/24/21
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The approaching Adar and Purim represent the sobering milestone of a year since the arrival of the pandemic on these …
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2/4/21
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Israel’s war on COVID-19 is changing shape. Lockdowns that in previous waves of the outbreak proved effective at quickly lowering morbidity are now having a much slower, more moderate effect. …
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By Professor Arnon Afek
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2/3/21
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Now that you’ve assumed office as our representative, my blessings for your success. I continue, however, to be deeply concerned — upset by your stance on Israel. Most recently, your criticism of Israel for not vaccinating …
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2/3/21
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In advance of a meeting of Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Israel Nitzan, Israel’s acting consul general in New York, Bowman a wrote a letter to Nitzan on Monday, posting it on Twitter. It is excerpted …
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2/3/21
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