WASHINGTON (JTA) — In 2010, Steven Menashi, then a law professor at George Mason University, wrote an article defending Israel from the charge that it’s an ethnonationalist state. “Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy,” published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, said that many countries — he cited Ireland, Greece and Bulgaria, among other […]
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COLUMBUS (JTA) — The Democrats are holding their debates in states that voted red in 2016, but which they hope to take from the Republicans next year. It was Florida in June, Michigan in July, Texas (yes, Texas) in September and this month in Ohio, in suburban Columbus. Next month the candidates move on to […]
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Lloyd Blankfein: “I knew I’d lose stature when I left my old job” I knew I’d lose stature when I left my old job. Thank you Harvard basketball team for rubbing it in!! pic.twitter.com/TAQiRrIk42 — Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) October 18, 2019 Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein posed with Harvard’s basketball team and then joked […]
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(JTA) — In the aftermath of the shooting outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle, local authorities are rethinking their approach to securing the country’s Jewish communities. Only the building’s heavy fortified doors prevented the gunman from entering the synagogue last week on Yom Kippur. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council […]
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Israeli startup Orasis brings science fiction to life by developing corrective eye drops as an alternative to reading glasses, contact lenses or surgery. Israeli startup Orasis Pharmaceuticals brings science fiction to life by developing a corrective eye drops as an alternative to reading glasses contact lenses or laser surgery. The company‘s patent-protected solution CSF-1 eye […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press There is a custom on Yom Kippur to ask the Sefer Torah for mechilah for not giving it enough respect (by not learning enough etc.). In the spirit of this minhag, when we get a hakafah on Simchas Torah, we should reflect on how the Sefer Torah feels about us. As […]
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