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Current Events in Israel, from article, blog 1, 2 Sussman's destroyed laptop. Toward the beginning of the search an officer began clicking through the photos on my camera. She froze on a picture of graffiti, which read “Fuck” scrawled next to the Jewish star of David. “Why do you have this picture?” She asked me rather [...] Israel: In the Beginning of a Love Affair Between a Land and a People One fact that has been repeatedly denied by Mr. Ahmadinejad, for example, is that the Jewish people have had a relationship with the land of Israel for thousands of years. …Why then, asks Rashi, does the Torah begin with [...] Jay Michelson has stirred up a bit of a storm with his article in the Forward, How I’m Losing My Love For Israel, in which he writes: First, I admit, it has become simply exhausting to maintain the ambivalence, the hugging and the wrestling, the endless fence sitting. My love of Israel has turned into a [...] “Members of the Land of Israel Faithful movement have come up with a new way to fight a proposed building freeze in Judea and Samaria. The movement is asking residents of the area to build the traditional temporary Sukkot dwellings – and to leave them up long after the holiday is over.” From [...] The biblical Ruth is lucky she isn’t converting to Judaism in 2009. If she ever wants to live in Israel, that is. Her moving, lyrical story of devotion to her mother-in-law and embrace of Jewish values has long stood as a potent symbol of the loving outsider who wishes to come in, and is lauded for [...] DANIEL ESTRIN DANIEL ESTRIN via Graffiti War Erupts Over Israel’s Road Signs – Forward.com. The world would be a much better place if people would refrain from acts of anger and zealous hate. The street sign infringes on no [...] From the Johnson administration through the Carter administration, the official US stance was that Israeli settlements were illegal – in all territory taken in 1967, including the West Bank, which in turn includes East Jerusalem. Ronald Reagan, taking a position that could be termed voodoo law, said settlements were “not illegal,” though they were ”unnecessarily [...] Rabbi Sherman of the Rabbinical Court has invalidated another conversion. via DovBear: change the original or the post-facto process. This time Rabbi Sherman declared a conversion granted by the Rabbinate to a woman null and void, questioned her Jewishness, ordered her to divorce her husband immediately and stated that as of now her children are to be [...] | ||||
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