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Temple Aaron: historic synagogue saved — for now
Chris LeppekSep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 12 Reports of Temple Aaron’s demise are — to paraphrase Mark Twain — greatly exaggerated. The historic synagogue in...
Controversial Filipino leader visits Israel
JTASep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 11 JERUSALEM — “We remember our friends,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Philippines President Rodrigo...
Trump: ‘Israel will pay high price’ for embassy
JTAAug 30, 2018
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump said Israel will have to pay a “high price” in peace negotiations with the Palestinians over the move of the US Embassy to...
In West Bank settlements, price matters as much as location
Ben Sales, JTAAug 30, 2018
OFRA, West Bank — Growing up in a Jerusalem apartment, Aaron Lipkin used to marvel at the two-story houses that he would see on weekend drives with his parents. It...
John McCain made Israel central to his foreign policy
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 30, 2018
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain made human rights and Israel centerpieces of his advocacy for a robust US influence across the planet. The Arizona Republican died Aug....
UK Jews judge Corbyn by ‘the company he keeps’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 23, 2018
JERUSALEM — British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn met with the leader-in-exile of a Palestinian terror group in 2014 weeks before its members carried out an attack...
Israel criticism growing among Dems?
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic nominee in a surefire congressional district comprising parts of Detroit, believes in a one-state solution to the...
Nazi deported to Germany
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 23, 2018
BERLIN — A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp was deported to Germany this week from the US, where he had lived for decades. Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived in...
The other mountain Jews — of Azerbaijan
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 16, 2018
BAKU, Azerbaijan — About one year after Bella Regimov’s two children left their native country in the early 2000s for Israel, she became socially isolated. On her...
Israeli Arabs protest Nation-State law
JTAAug 16, 2018
TEL AVIV — Tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs, some waving Palestinian flags, gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Aug. 11 to protest the recent passage of...
