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4 dead, including 3 Jerusalem yeshiva students, in Ukraine plane crash

July 28, 2021Jesse Orine

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Ben & Jerry’s board chair says ‘I am not anti-Semitic’ as Unilever disavows BDS movement

July 27, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — One week after Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company’s board chair for the first time publicly rejected the suggestion that the move was antisemitic. And the brand’s parent company, Unilever, disavowed the movement to boycott Israel. The disavowal comes as Unilever […]

Retaliating against boycott decision, NYC grocery chain to reduce Ben & Jerry’s sales

July 26, 2021Arsen Mayer

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First commercial direct flights from Israel land in Morocco

July 26, 2021Jesse Orine

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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, […]