Israel’s Supreme Court upholds law declaring Israel nation-state of the Jewish people – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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This article originally appeared on Alma. Anat Lelior’s first experience with surfing came at age 5. It was an inauspicious start to the sport that would become her career and, later this month, take her to the Tokyo Olympics. Her father, Yochai, lay on the back of the board with her at their local beach […]
Continue ReadingTranslated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon(English follows the Arabic, below.) Some violences are regenerative: a sprout pressing up through the dirt, a colonized people overthrowing a colonizing regime, farmers burning the straw from fields so plants might grow again. Other violences—prisons, detention centers, and other contrivances of human cruelty—constrict futures. One of global capitalism’s […]
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This Q&A is adapted from one of eight mainstage conversations held at Z3 2020: Visions of a Shared Future, a virtual conference produced by The Z3 Project and the Oshman Family JCC of Palo Alto, California, aimed at reimagining Diaspora-Israel relations. Judaism has always been a social faith, centered on communal activity. However, the demands […]
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Pfizer and partner BioNTech plan to ask US and European regulators within weeks to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, based on evidence of greater risk of infection six months after inoculation and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been following di rozeve pave (Yiddish for Pink Peacock), a queer, Yiddish, anarchist space in the Govanhill neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland, with fascination and delight since they opened their social media accounts in the summer of 2019. As they’ve been preparing to open their pay-what-you-can café, they’ve also built a vibrant online community where […]
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Given the torrent of news developments in Israel since its brief war with Hamas in May — a new prime minister and government, an unexpected resurgence of COVID-19 — the 11-day conflict might be easily forgotten. But two months on, many Israelis are suffering lingering trauma — both from the more than 4,000 rockets and […]
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(JTA) — In May, as the latest violent Israel-Gaza conflict heated up, Ty Kelly did something he could never do in any other professional baseball dugout: He turned to some teammates to learn more about the situation. Kelly, a 32-year-old currently playing for the Tacoma Rainiers in the Seattle Mariners’ minor league system, was in […]
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Still Asking the Wrong Questions: A Perilous American Error Portrait of Jefferson in his late 50s Prof. Louis René Beres “The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time (1952) How did America get to this fragile place? Often, history deserves pride of […]
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Medorion Offers SaaS Solutions for Health Insurers Medorion just raised $6 million. Medorion Founders (Photo: Adi Eckstein) Israeli startup Medorion develops behavioral intelligence SaaS solutions for health insurers. Medorion completed a $6 million funding round led by 10D. This brings Medorion’s total funding to date to $9 million. Behavioral Intelligence is defined as the use […]
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