Ed Sheeran expresses sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians at first tour stop since Macklemore was dropped

Pop star Ed Sheeran expressed sympathy for “centuries of Jewish pain” while calling what is happening in Gaza “catastrophic and unjustifiable” at a largely solo performance before about 50,000 people at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. It was the tour’s first stop since Macklemore was dropped following pro-Palestinian remarks and the display of images from […]

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Detroit’s archbishop, outspoken on Gaza, toured a Holocaust center. Was it a step forward for Jewish allyship?

FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan — The bishop solemnly walked through the photos and illustrations documenting Nazi-led antisemitic sentiment, aided in several cases by Catholics, that  doomed the Jews of Europe. At one point he proudly noted he had befriended the nephew of a prominent Dutch Catholic resistance figure. And when prompted to theorize why one Holocaust […]

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Appalling or ‘common sense,’ Trump’s Gaza proposal reinforces his image as disruptor in chief

For all the millions of words written about Donald Trump’s inexplicable (to his opponents, anyway) political appeal, the simplest explanation may be the way he channels coffee shop banter into actual policy proposals. Too many immigrants? Build a wall. Greenland’s a commodity? Let’s buy it. Gaza is a wasteland? Let’s clear it out — of […]

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Israeli trainer Itzik Weksler shares tips for running Jerusalem Marathon

Itzik Weksler is an experienced fitness trainer, operating studios in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and specializing in nutrition and physical rehabilitation. A regular fixture of the Jerusalem Winner Marathon, Weksler typically runs alongside his trainees, including Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion.  This year, however, is different, as the war with Hamas has left this 41-year-old father […]

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