(JTA) — Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood. Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex relations over the past 12 months from giving blood. Now, the question’s wording will be changed to asking whether prospective donors have had “high risk sexual […]
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(JTA) — The Jewish community of Bahrain celebrated the country’s first bar mitzvah since 2005. The bar mitzvah ceremony took place in the House of the Ten Commandments in Manama, the kingdom’s only operational synagogue, according to a release from the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities, which coordinates and promotes Jewish life in the region. […]
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(JTA) — President Joe Biden has nominated Rahm Emanuel to be the next ambassador to Japan. Emanuel, 61, who was Chicago’s mayor from 2011 to 2019, previously served as a congressman and Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff. He has attracted opposition from progressives due to how he handled the 2014 police killing of […]
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(JTA) — It sounded like a story heard time and again: A government official criticizes her rivals for breaking COVID restrictions — and then is caught breaking them herself. That is what seemed to happen Friday night, when an Israeli reporter tweeted that Israel’s Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli had traveled to the United States, contrary […]
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REE’s Daniel Barel Co-founder and CEO (company PR pic) REE Automotive, the Israeli company that develops new tech for electric vehicles, was awarded £14 million ($19 million) from the UK Government, coordinated through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). The UK government said that its investment in REE Automotive fits with the country’s ambition to accelerate […]
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