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Right-wing Jewish activists protest outside a joint ceremony for families of Israeli and Palestinian victims on Israeli Memorial Day, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2015. The flag reads 'The land of Israel only for the people of Israel'. (Tomer NeubergFlash90)
July 20, 2018, 12:44 am
ADL raises alarm over Israeli democracy after nation-state bill
Watchdog joins other US Jewish groups in concern over Jewish state's treatment of minorities, but backs law's determination of state symbols
By Eric Cortellessa and TOI staff
Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)
July 19, 2018, 8:13 am
Reform and AJC leaders bitterly criticize Israel’s nation-state bill
AJC 'deeply disappointed' by new legislation; Reform's Rick Jacobs bemoans 'sad and unnecessary day for Israeli democracy'
By Eric Cortellessa
President Donald Trump listens as Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee speaks, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
July 10, 2018, 5:53 am
Jewish groups ‘concerned’ over Trump’s Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh
While Senate minority leader Schumer vows to try and block nomination, Republican Jewish Coalition says it 'looks forward to his confirmation'
By Eric Cortellessa
A tourist visits the tomb of World War II-era head of Poland's Catholic Church, Cardinal August Hlond, in St. John's Arch-Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland, June 16, 2018. (Alik Keplicz/AP)
July 4, 2018, 5:54 pm
Accusations of anti-Semitism mount against Polish priest set for sainthood
In 1936 pastoral letter, Cardinal August Hlond called Jewish people 'the vanguard of godlessness, Bolshevism and subversion,' but also prohibited attacks on Jews
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Nicole Winfield
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is seen during a ceremony at the White House, April 10, 2017. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images via JTA)
June 28, 2018, 7:15 pm
Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish legacy
In his 3 decades on the court, Kennedy decided countless cases regarding religious liberty, many of which were important to — and divided — American Jews
By Charles Dunst
People carry Israeli flags as they march during the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, Sunday, June 3, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
June 26, 2018, 7:53 pm
Abrasive Israel, apathetic Diaspora behind Jewry’s widening gap, says report
Jerusalem-based think tank JPPI says now that the Jewish state is indisputably Judaism's 'center of gravity,' it bears the onus of mending rift with splintered community abroad
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Sheikh Yahya Cholil Staquf, leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, at his Jerusalem office, June 14, 2018 (Haim Zach, GPO)
June 15, 2018, 6:28 am
Netanyahu unexpectedly meets with Indonesian Muslim leader
Yahya Staquf, who heads world’s largest Muslim organization, says he wants to promote ties with Jerusalem, but stresses he came to affirm 'Palestine's sovereignty'
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Jerusalem, June 13, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)
June 13, 2018, 3:04 pm
Bulgaria sympathetic to Israel wanting Jerusalem recognition — to a point
On visit, PM Borisov insists he won't relocate embassy, though he's 'not indifferent' to a sovereign state wanting its choice for capital to be recognized by the world
By Raphael Ahren
Yahya Staquf, secretary general of the 60 million member Nahdlatul Ulama poses for a photograph, overlooking Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Craighton)
June 12, 2018, 2:52 pm
In Israel, top Indonesian cleric calls for ‘compassion’ between Muslims and Jews
Yahya Staquf, who heads world’s largest Muslim organization, says he wants to promote ties with Jerusalem, but stresses he came to affirm 'Palestine's sovereignty'
By Raphael Ahren
Yahya Staquf, secretary general of the 60 million member Nahdlatul Ulama poses for a photograph, overlooking Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Craighton)
June 12, 2018, 12:32 am
Visiting Israel, Indonesian Muslim leader risks backlash at home
Yahya Staquf calls for 'new discourse' between faiths as he meets with academics and religious leaders; critics say his trip is tantamount to recognizing Israel
By CARON CREIGHTON
Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz at the AJC Global Forum in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 11, 2018, 11:56 pm
Israel’s security in Austria’s ‘national interest,’ visiting chancellor says
In Jerusalem, Sebastian Kurz acknowledges guilt for Holocaust crimes and vows to fight anti-Semitism, does not address far-right coalition partner
By Raphael Ahren
Steven Bayme
June 11, 2018, 2:35 pm
Steven Bayme
That Israel-America Jewish divide
As the communities move farther apart, a new plan for Jewish unity is needed urgently
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2018, 11:52 pm
PM urges Diaspora Jews to visit Western Wall pluralistic prayer platform
The Jewish people's unity is 'not always amenable to daily politics,' Netanyahu tells AJC Global Forum, indicating he won't implement 2016 deal
By Raphael Ahren
Israelis hold American and Israeli flags with the new US Embassy in the background in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
June 10, 2018, 2:46 pm
Poll shows deep divisions between Israeli and US Jews on Trump, peace, religion
AJC survey shows Israelis much more supportive of US leader's handling of relations, far more accepting of ultra-Orthodox monopoly over religious affairs in Jewish state
By AP and TOI staff
John Shapiro
June 8, 2018, 7:01 pm
John Shapiro
The American Jewish Committee stands with Israel
We once were ambivalent about Zionism, but no longer
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