22 hours ago by Aimée Dassa Kligman

NEW YORK (JTA) -- When the Reform movement passed a resolution endorsing advocacy for Israeli Arabs, it wasn’t the first time an American Jewish group had backed the cause of Israeli-Arab equality. In recent years, a growing number of American Jews have thrown their support toward Israeli-Arab cause ...

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31 days ago by Kat

…Israel’s Arab leaders denounced the move as confirmation that the Arab minority was still regarded by the police as “an enemy” – a criticism made by a state commission of inquiry after police shot dead 13 unarmed Arab demonstrators inside Israel and wounded hundreds more at the start of the second ...

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33 days ago by Maya Norton

Source: Flickr, Just.Luc The air is popping, molecules are dancing, you can practically feel the crackle in the air– alive with energy in the world of Jewish philanthropy and innovation. The New Jew is here to bring you the news that can’t be missed. Israel Israel President’s Conference– Today is th ...

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40 days ago by Ben Cohen

This is a guest post by Kenneth Bandler, Director of Communications for the American Jewish Committee. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must regret the failure of Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beteinu to get Balad, the nationalist party in the Israeli Arab sector, banned from the Knesset ...

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42 days ago by adamanders2009

Israeli Arabs’ Oath of Loyalty? israeli-arabs-loyality Israel’s Israel Beitenu party, which is the second largest party in the government after the Likud, ran on a platform of repealing Israeli citizenship from anyone that doesn’t make a pledge of loyalty to the State of Israel. In May of this year ...

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42 days ago by adamanders2009

Israeli Arabs Required to Pledge Allegiance? oath-of-loyalty-israel Israel’s Israel Beitenu party, which is the second biggest party in the government after the Likud, ran on a platform of repealing Israeli citizenship from anyone that doesn’t make a pledge of faithfulness to the State of Israel. Th ...

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57 days ago by Kris Petersen

Hostility to intimate relationships developing across Israel’s ethnic divide is shared by many Israeli Jews, who regard such behavior as a threat to the state’s Jewishness. One of the few polls on the subject, in 2007, found that more than half of Israeli Jews believed intermarriage should be equate ...

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60 days ago by Carmia

$10,000,000 for any information which leads to the finding of the missing soldier Majdi Halabi It's been almost four and half years since the disappearance of the Israeli soldier Majdi Halabi. The then 19-year old soldier from the Druze town of Daliyat-el-Carmel was on his way to his base, but never ...

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63 days ago by Kris Petersen

Acutely conscious that Israel’s Arab population considers itself to be the victim of discrimination, Peres made the point that the Arabs would live better if they had fewer children. Parents of ten or more children cannot necessarily give them the education they deserve. Cutting down on the Arab bir ...

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65 days ago by Kris Petersen

Every night, dozens of young men in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood take to the streets and go out searching for girls. But theirs is not a promiscuous search. In fact, the group of some 35 volunteers is looking to prevent such interaction and to stop what neighborhood residents have overwhelm ...

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