Thursday, November 21st 2019
By LAURA E. ADKINS and BEN SALES
(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week that the United States will no longer consider Israeli Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be illegal.
Here’s an explainer about what the settlements are, how they are viewed in Israel and around the world, and what this announcement might mean.
What are the settlements? How many Israelis live there? In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured large swaths of territory from neighboring countries. Israel took the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem from...
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By ANGELA MAONE, Special to the CCJN
The Touro Infirmary Foundation held its annual gala on Saturday evening, November 2 with the theme of “At the Beach.” The occasion, the 30th anniversary of the Judah Touro Society Award, was an opportunity to honor this year’s recipient, Dr. Gary Glynn.
The...
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By NICHOLAS HAMBURGER, Special to the CCJN
The Jewish Women’s Theatre, a Santa Monica-based theatre group, will perform The Matzo Ball Diaries at Shir Chadash Conservative Synagogue tonight in Metairie.
The show begins at 7:30 p.m., marking the fifth leg of the theater group’s week-long “Southern Tour,” which the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of...
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ALLEN A. WEINER, a financial planner and analyst who founded his own accounting and financial planning firm, died at his Metairie home on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. He was 76.
A native of New York, Weiner grew up in Oklahoma...
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By YAAKOV LAAPIN
(JNS.org) – Israel launched a broad wave of precision airstrikes early on Wednesday morning, hitting dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets, and sending a very strong message that Israel is rejecting Iran’s attempt to force...
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By MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel may be headed to its third election in the span of one year. But then again, it may not be.
Benny Gantz, head of the centrist Blue and White party, informed Israeli President...
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(JNS.org) – At least 106 protesters in 21 cities in Iran have been killed in the latest wave of protests inside the Islamic Republic against the regime, following it announcing a fuel price hike, according to Amnesty International on Tuesday.
...By ALAN SMASON
While I have always stopped short of using the Israeli designation of Judea and Samaria to refer to the West Bank, this week’s decision by the Trump administration to no longer consider settlements as illegal might present...
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