(JTA) – AIPAC has canceled its 2021 policy conference, citing the “continued uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic.”Betsy Korn, the president of the American Israel Public …
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MARCY OSTER
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6/5/20
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WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Israel’s announcement last week that an Israeli consortium would build Sorek 2, the world’s largest desalination plant, surprised many who had been watching the deal: …
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Ron Kampeas
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6/3/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Commercial flights will not resume to Israel until mid-July at the earliest, according to the head of Ben Gurion Airport. Shmuel Zakaim, the airport’s managing director, …
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6/2/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Participants in the Masa Israel Journey program, an umbrella organization for gap-year experiences in Israel, will be able to enter Israel from other countries despite …
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Marcy Oster
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6/2/20
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(JTA) — Hadara Bilsky thought she’d spend her first semester of college making friends in her dorm, having discussions with professors and students in class, and attending Shabbat services at …
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Josefin Dolsten
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5/21/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the first day that Israel’s schools reopened nine weeks after closing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Kalanit Taub’s 8-year-old daughter stayed home.
As a …
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Sam Sokol
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5/14/20
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Ambassador Dani Dayan, consul general of Israel in New York, last week shared a short message with JTA readers ahead of Yom Ha’Zikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut …
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AMBASSADOR DANI DAYAN
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4/30/20
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been the attacks on haredi Orthodox Jews in both Israel and the United …
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Rabbi Avi Shafran
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4/30/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel will go into emergency lockdown on the country’s Memorial and Independence days in an effort to tamp down the coronavirus crisis, raising an outcry from bereaved …
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Marcy Oster
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4/22/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.
In a …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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