WASHINGTON — Two prominent former Israeli diplomats are charging that the State Department is recycling parts of its old reports in order to whitewash the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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8/2/17
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The here is a broad consensus among American Jewish leaders in support of Israel’s use of metal detectors to intercept terrorists on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Conference of Presidents …
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By Rafael Medoff
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7/26/17
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The decision by the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward to publish a paid advertisement sup-porting imprisoned Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti is being questioned by some editors of other …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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6/15/17
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Thank you for publishing the warm and informative tributes to the Rav Binyomin Kamenetzky zt”l, a Torah giant and true Jewish leader. I am grateful that you were able to …
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5/17/17
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When I first invited Rav Binyomin Kamenetzky to speak about his participation in the 1943 march by rabbis in Washington, I assumed he had spoken about that episode on many previous occasions. I was …
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By Rafael Madoff, Special to The Jewish Star
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5/3/17
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President Donald Trump’s missile strike against Syria inaugurates a new chapter in the long and controversial history of American responses —and sometimes non-responses — to mass …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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4/20/17
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Seventy-two years ago to the date that Marion Blumenthal’s family — her father, Walter; her mother, Ruth; and Marion and her brother, Albert — were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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4/20/17
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The mayor of the second-largest city in the Netherlands is refusing to block a conference by a pro-Hamas group, despite warnings by Dutch Jewish leaders and political figures that the event could …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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3/30/17
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The most recent round of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations failed because the Palestinian Authority (PA) responded to each Israeli concession with new demands and the Obama administration kept …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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3/10/17
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The controversy over Israel’s security checkpoints is heating up in the wake of a new investigative report showing that the perceived hardships endured by many Palestinian travelers are much …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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3/1/17
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