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19-year-old Taekwando fighter wins Israel’s first Olympic medal in Tokyo

July 25, 2021Sara Wood

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19-year-old taekwondo fighter wins Israel’s first Olympic medal in Tokyo

July 25, 2021Jesse Orine

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5 states are considering sanctions on Ben & Jerry’s after West Bank pullout

July 23, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — It has been a question insiders have posed all week: Could Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank trigger many or all of the laws that U.S. states have passed in recent years to hurt the Israel boycott movement? Well, five states are already looking into […]

Algerian judoka quits Olympics to avoid Israeli opponent

July 23, 2021Jesse Orine

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Jewish National Fund-USA launches ‘This Is What Zionism Looks Like’ campaign

July 23, 2021Arsen Mayer

Decades after the U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism was a form of racism, Zionists continue to be maligned on college campuses, social media and city streets. Confronting the ongoing hostility toward Zionism in a positive, multifaceted way, Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA) launched “This is What Zionism Looks Like,” a campaign that […]

His day job is booking acts like John Mulaney and Sinead O’Connor. He’s also on Israel’s Olympic baseball team.

July 22, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — Before last November, Shlomo Lipetz already had his dream job. After drinking coffee and listening to a morning news podcast — “The Daily,” from the New York Times — he would then take the L train from his Brooklyn apartment and head to his job as vice president for programming at City Winery, […]

Dani Dayan, former Israeli diplomat in NY and settler leader, picked to chair Israel’s Holocaust museum

July 22, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Talking about practice? How ‘Ted Lasso’ and Allen Iverson explain the uproar over Ben & Jerry’s settlement pullout

July 21, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — My favorite moment of “Ted Lasso,” the hit TV show about a relentlessly kind American hired to coach professional soccer in London, comes when Ted berates his star player for sitting out practice. “You’re sitting in here, you’re supposed to be the franchise player, and yet here we are, talking about you missing […]

What Is the Green Line?

July 21, 2021Meghan Froy

The Green Line refers to the line of demarcation that separated Israeli, Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian forces at the conclusion of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. It was delineated in the 1949 armistice agreements that formally ended the war and served as Israel’s de facto international border until the 1967 Six-Day War. Its name derives […]

How US laws against Israel boycotts could hit Ben & Jerry’s

July 20, 2021Arsen Mayer

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ben & Jerry’s decision this week to pull out of an agreement that allowed its Israeli franchisee to sell its product in what the company terms “Occupied Palestinian Territory” has angered some Jewish-owned businesses. But the move also could have legal repercussions in the United States. As a result of a campaign […]