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Jewish tech millionaire turned lawmaker could be first openly gay governor of Colorado

Jewish tech millionaire turned lawmaker could be first openly gay governor of Colorado

Jared Polis wants to use his business know-how to bring free education to young children statewide — and use 100% renewable energy by 2040  … Read More ›

David Friedman: Can Jews Survive Themselves?

David Friedman: Can Jews Survive Themselves?

Friedman was speaking at a B’nai B’rith World Center award ceremony for excellence in journalism on Diaspora affairs   In his maiden public speech as… Read More ›

US Israel envoy won’t take sides on Kotel, conversion crisis

US Israel envoy won’t take sides on Kotel, conversion crisis

Speaking to an audience in Jerusalem, David Friedman acknowledges divides between Jews but refuses to take sides on gov’t decisions over conversions and Kotel; laments… Read More ›

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

The complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is lost on many in the gay community leading to outright rejection of the Jewish state   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Jewish Agency takes out ad slamming Western Wall decision

Jewish Agency takes out ad slamming Western Wall decision

Organization says freezing pluralistic prayer pavilion and granting ultra-Orthodox conversion monopoly ‘endangers the unity of the Jewish people’   The Jewish Agency for Israel on… Read More ›

Analysis: The Weakness of Diaspora Jews Does Them In

Analysis: The Weakness of Diaspora Jews Does Them In

In the dispute over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, conversion and other matters of religion and state, the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties have strength.  … Read More ›

Analysis: New generation of Hilltop Youth: Less ideology, more anti-state activity

Analysis: New generation of Hilltop Youth: Less ideology, more anti-state activity

Analysis: The main targets of ‘price tag’ perpetrators in recent weeks have been Israel’s security forces—the Shin Bet, the IDF and the police—rather than the… Read More ›

Netanyahu to millions of Jews: We don’t really want you

Netanyahu to millions of Jews: We don’t really want you

Op-Ed: The PM’s decision to freeze the Western Wall compromise plan is a blow to the heart and soul of world Jewry   By most… Read More ›

Argentine ex-president Kirchner launches political comeback

Argentine ex-president Kirchner launches political comeback

Leftist firebrand has been accused in the death of Jewish prosecutor Alberto Nissman, who alleged she tried to cover up Iran’s role in the AMIA… Read More ›

136-year-old Jewish refugee agency has a new mission in the Trump era: Fighting back

136-year-old Jewish refugee agency has a new mission in the Trump era: Fighting back

HIAS has seen its activist profile rise higher this year than at any point in its lengthy history   NEW YORK (JTA) — On January… Read More ›

Miami, FL – Israeli Company That Produces Water From Air Launches First Pilot Program In Florida

Miami, FL – Israeli Company That Produces Water From Air Launches First Pilot Program In Florida

  Miami, FL – Large parts of Florida are suffering from severe drought, and hurricane season threatens to make things worse. Enter Water-Gen, an Israeli company whose… Read More ›

Why the government is afraid of academia

Why the government is afraid of academia

Op-ed: The best way to defend students is to keep developing their critical thinking skills and their political instincts so that they won’t believe everything… Read More ›

Einstein letters on God, Israel and physics fetch $210,000

Einstein letters on God, Israel and physics fetch $210,000

Eight letters, written between 1951 and 1954, by esteemed Jewish scientist were initially valued at up to $46,000   JERUSALEM — Letters written by Albert… Read More ›

Paul Shaffer’s post-Letterman act: Touring with ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Band’

Paul Shaffer’s post-Letterman act: Touring with ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Band’

The ‘Late Show’ sidekick and musical director has taken to the road again, with the occasional pit stop in shul   NEW YORK (JTA) —… Read More ›

Chilean Jews Concerned Over ‘Imported’ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Chilean Jews Concerned Over ‘Imported’ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Tensions are present on soccer fields, in media and universities.   A series of recent events in Chile have caused heightened tensions between the Jewish and… Read More ›

Security Cabinet Debates Building 14,000 New Palestinian Homes in Area C

Security Cabinet Debates Building 14,000 New Palestinian Homes in Area C

Should recent terror attacks impact major housing decisions?   The Security Cabinet will reconsider a plan to allow the Palestinian city of Kalkilya to expand… Read More ›

Palestinians to Claim Tomb of Patriarchs on UN Heritage List

Palestinians to Claim Tomb of Patriarchs on UN Heritage List

The World Heritage Committee on Thursday publicized the list of 35 sites that it plans to consider inscribing, including Hebron.   The World Heritage Committee… Read More ›

Franco-German TV Outlet Snubs German Jews’ Pleas to Air Film on Antisemitism

Franco-German TV Outlet Snubs German Jews’ Pleas to Air Film on Antisemitism

ARTE, a public television station, came under fire after it nixed the screening of the film it commissioned about antisemitism because it was deemed too… Read More ›

Michael Steinhardt thinks American Jews need to stop focusing on religion

Michael Steinhardt thinks American Jews need to stop focusing on religion

The billionaire philanthropist doesn’t believe the answers to a national Jewish identity crisis lie in the synagogue, but rather in Israel   MT. KISCO, New… Read More ›

UK Jewish Community Likely to Come Out in Force for May’s Conservatives

UK Jewish Community Likely to Come Out in Force for May’s Conservatives

In light of the recent attacks in Manchester and London, most polling stations had increased security as they opened on Thursday morning.   LONDON –… Read More ›