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Omri Casspi, first Israeli player in NBA, retires from professional basketball

July 18, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Beitar Jerusalem soccer team cancels match against FC Barcelona after request to not hold match in Jerusalem

July 16, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — Beitar Jerusalem, an Israeli soccer team, has canceled an exhibition match against FC Barcelona after the powerhouse Spanish team refused to hold the match in Jerusalem. The friendly match had been scheduled for Aug. 4 in Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium, but Palestinians urged Barcelona, which is led by Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi, to […]

How Israel became a judo powerhouse

July 16, 2021Sara Wood

TEL AVIV (JTA) — When he immigrated to Israel from his native Ukraine in the early 1990s, judo master Igor Romanitsky was already resigned to quitting the sport professionally and pursuing a medical career. “Israel wasn’t known for its judo scene back then, and I had a medical degree,” Romanitsky, now 57, told the Jewish […]

More American Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and big organizations are struggling to fight the trend

July 15, 2021Arsen Mayer

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sharon Nazarian has a theory about why a recent Washington, D.C. rally against antisemitism failed to make an impact. The Anti-Defamation League, for which Nazarian is senior vice president of international affairs, co-sponsored “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People,” along with several other of the largest American Jewish […]

3 Jewish filmmakers were arrested in Nigeria, accused of working with rebels. Their families say they were just donating a Torah scroll.

July 15, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Three Jewish filmmakers working on a documentary about far-flung Jewish communities in Africa have been detained for days by Nigerian authorities and accused of aiding a separatist rebellion led by a Nigerian Jewish activist. Their families say they were doing nothing of the sort. They say the men were giving a Torah scroll […]

For these US Jews of color, encountering Israel’s diversity was an eye-opening and affirming experience

July 15, 2021Arsen Mayer

JERUSALEM – Arel Moodie, the son of a white Jewish mother and a Black father, experienced a core identity struggle through most of his teenage years. “It was one of the biggest pieces of turmoil in my adolescence,” said Moodie, who was raised in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Brooklyn and attended Jewish camps every […]

Imagination drives Western Galilee recovery

July 14, 2021Arsen Mayer

This is a Paid Post. With local shops and artisanal businesses, stunning artwork, boutique wines, and scrumptious food, it is easy to see how Israel’s Western Galilee region was welcoming over 2 million tourists annually before the pandemic. And with the tourism industry employing 40% of the Western Galilee’s residents, the region is pinning its […]

Survey: A quarter of US Jews agree that Israel ‘is an apartheid state’

July 13, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — A survey of U.S. Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide and apartheid. Among respondents to the survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by prominent Jewish Democrats, 34% agreed that […]

Israel Defense Forces rescue team leaves Surfside to salutes and serenades

July 12, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Israel’s Supreme Court upholds law declaring Israel nation-state of the Jewish people

July 9, 2021Arsen Mayer

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