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Gedalyah Reback

Gedalyah Reback

Yedidya Weiner (Courtesy)
October 22, 2017, 1:37 pm
My brother-in-law’s 24 unpleasant hours in Ankara airport
Alone on a trip around the world before making aliyah, Yedidya wound up in Turkish custody. Israel was helpful. The Americans saved the day
By Gedalyah Reback
La Seu Vella cathedral in Lleida, Spain (CC BY 2.5 Hector Blanco de Frutos via Wikimedia Commons)
June 23, 2015, 7:00 pm
Spanish town marks Jewish underground railroad
Catalonian village marks fifth such route Jews used to escape Europe to neutral Spain during WWII
By Gedalyah Reback
Illustrative: A Chabad representative lays phylacteries on a passerby in New York's Union Square on Friday, June 19, 2015 (Facebook)
June 23, 2015, 10:36 am
NY Chabad rep lays tefillin on woman
Student Baci Weiler speculates that representative mistook her ‘buzzed hair + baggy t-shirt’ as indication she’s a man
By Gedalyah Reback
Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 21, 2015, 4:14 pm
Hotovely: French UN peace proposal ‘deludes’ Palestinians
Deputy foreign minister says bid to impose terms is ‘counterproductive’; urges direct Israeli-Palestinian talks
By Gedalyah Reback
June 21, 2015, 3:14 pm
In first, Israel sends Egypt Ramadan greetings
Israeli leaders deliver holiday wishes to Muslims at home and abroad as holy month kicks off
By Gedalyah Reback
Rabbi Michael Freund (right) stands next to Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin (center), while the latter holds one of several young immigrants who arrived on a group flight, June 18, 2015. (Courtesy Ze'ev Elkin's office)
June 19, 2015, 1:55 am
3,000th Bnei Menashe touches down in Israel
78 new arrivals to live in the Golan, part of the land allocated to tribe of Menashe in the Bible
By Gedalyah Reback
Professional baseball player Mariano Rivera (center) and Eilat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Museum (right), meet Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin at the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 18, 2015. (Hamutal Wachtel)
June 18, 2015, 10:50 pm
Yankees baseball legend Rivera in Israel
Retired pitcher taken around Jerusalem’s Old City with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin and former member of Knesset Dov Lipman
By Gedalyah Reback
A Coop outlet in Sweden (courtesy)
June 18, 2015, 1:06 pm
Counter-boycott push beats back divestment in Sweden
Supermarket chain reverses decision to boycott Israeli products after intense phone and email campaign
By Gedalyah Reback
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and owner Robert Kraft are all smiles after beating the Indianapolis Colts, January 2015. (Elsa/Getty Images/via JTA)
June 17, 2015, 12:23 pm
Football hall of famers to butt heads with Israelis
Patriots owner will huddle with 19 gridiron greats in the Holy Land to tackle football’s future in the Jewish state
By Gedalyah Reback
Illustrative: Man holding a US passport. (Shutterstock)
June 14, 2015, 8:15 pm
Glitch in US passports affects Israel travelers
Delays in visas, document renewals; State Department doesn’t rule out cyber attack for computer system problems
By Gedalyah Reback
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, in the village of Julis in northern Israel. April 25, 2013. (Moshe Milner/GPO)
June 14, 2015, 7:39 pm
Israel weighs ‘safe zone’ for Syria’s embattled Druze
Military says no intention to absorb refugees, but memory of Holocaust requires action to avert ‘mass genocide’
By Gedalyah Reback
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (right), seen with Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, June 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 12, 2015, 8:32 am
Kahlon announces plan to lower housing prices
Finance minister focuses on deregulation, speeding up construction and disincentivizing property investment
By Gedalyah Reback
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau (L) and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 11, 2015, 6:51 am
Chief Rabbi: No intent to fire Efrat rabbi Shlomo Riskin
David Lau denies Rabbinate seeks to dismiss liberal leader, says the issue has been ‘blown out of proportion’
By Gedalyah Reback
Palestinians and Israelis work at the SodaStream factory in the Mishor Adumim industrial park in the West Bank, February 2, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 11, 2015, 2:40 am
Poll: Most Israeli Jews back segregated West Bank buses
Survey on society’s attitudes on peace also shows majority of Israeli Arabs would avoid settlement product boycott
By JTA and Gedalyah Reback
Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing a rally on Capitol Hill in 2013. (Courtesy JTA)
June 10, 2015, 11:26 pm
Radio host quizzes Jewish candidate Sanders on Israeli citizenship
WAMU’s Diane Rehm raises eyebrows after repeatedly asking senator about being a dual citizen, saying she got info off Internet
By Gedalyah Reback
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