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Detail from 'Seder,' painted in the United States by French-born artist Nicole Eisenman. (The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: Lore Ross Bequest; Milton and Miriam Handler Endowment Fund; and Fine Arts Acquisitions Committee Fund, 2011-3 © Nicole Eisenman)
June 1, 2019, 1:29 pm
50 years after Stonewall Inn, US Jewish institutions take pride in LGBTQ support
Marking confrontational pivot point in the gay rights movement which saw police violence, museums and nonprofits join consortium to commemorate the event through art and education
By Cathryn J. Prince
Debra Katz, left, looks on as Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 27, 2018. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/via JTA)
May 26, 2019, 6:43 am
How Debra Katz became one of America’s top #MeToo lawyers
The ‘most feared’ civil rights attorney credits her landmark 1980s fight against sexual harassment, and her Jewish upbringing, with propelling her into a high-profile legal career
By Josefin Dolsten
Laura Mandel said she had been to Israel about 10 times without any airport incidents of the kind she experienced this week. (Courtesy of Abraham Initiatives/J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA)
April 19, 2019, 7:08 pm
Activist detained at Ben Gurion: Once I said the word ‘Arab,’ everything changed
Jewish American rights activist details extensive questioning, detention at airport while leaving Israel, something critics charge is increasing for pro-Palestinian supporters
By Gabe Stutman
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, speaks during a youth conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, November 5, 2018. (MENA via AP)
November 7, 2018, 9:04 pm
Egypt to amend controversial law controlling non-government organizations
President Sissi says special committee to be formed to ‘achieve the aspirations of civil society’ and ‘balanced’ legislation
By AFP
Yedidia Z. Stern
July 23, 2018, 1:28 pm
Yedidia Z. Stern
Hmm, which is the country of the Jewish people?
Israel is now the only democratic nation-state in the world that doesn’t guarantee equality for all its citizens
An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 12, 2018, 5:26 am
El Al says ultra-Orthodox men delayed flight by minutes, not an hour
Airlines says delay at NY was ‘totally unconnected’ to men’s refusal to sit besides women, which was solved within ‘moments’
By JTA
Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia leaves the podium as Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom, is seen at rear at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Aug. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
July 3, 2018, 5:51 am
85-year-old rabbi arrested at Trump border policy protest
‘If you need to arrest us, so be it, but remember who the real criminals are,’ Arthur Waskow says before being detained in Philadelphia
By JTA
Austrian Airlines planes stand at Vienna-Schwechat airport in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
June 29, 2018, 7:45 pm
Ultra-Orthodox men again hold up plane, refusing to sit beside women
Captain of Austrian Airlines flight to Vienna forced to intervene, asks women to move; plane arrives over an hour late; MK Lapid calls to remove such passengers immediately
By TOI staff
An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 28, 2018, 10:38 am
Haredi MK vows El Al boycott if it boots passengers who won’t sit next to women
UTJ’s Yisrael Eichler says criticism of men who refuse to sit next to women on flights is ‘anti-Semitic’ and amounts to ‘terrorism’
By TOI staff
El Al flight seen at the airstrip at the Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
June 26, 2018, 5:22 am
Israeli tech giant boycotts El Al over ‘discrimination against women’
NICE System’s CEO says company will not use national carrier after flight from New York to Israel was delayed due to refusal by a ultra-Orthodox men to sit next to women
By TOI staff
An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 23, 2018, 10:22 am
NY-Israel flight delayed by ultra-Orthodox men’s refusal to sit next to women
Passenger says El Al plane left 75 minutes late due to demand by 4 men, who wouldn’t speak to female attendants; 2nd witness says incident added only few minutes to unrelated delay
By TOI staff
Ari Z. Zivotofsky
June 18, 2018, 2:55 pm
Ari Z. Zivotofsky
Why coerced confessions fail
Even when a crime is as vile as the Dawabshehs’ burning deaths, laws against torturing criminals must prevail
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan attends an Internal Affairs committee meeting in the Knesset, October 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 12, 2018, 7:06 pm
Police minister: Social media monitoring has foiled 200 terror attacks
Gilad Erdan says he intends to share techniques at international security conference he is hosting; Palestinians blast violation of privacy
By Agencies
Kenneth Marcus, nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
June 8, 2018, 1:18 am
Senate approves controversial Jewish rights activist for top civil rights post
No Democrats voted for Kenneth Marcus, who backs a definition of anti-Semitism that includes some forms of Israel criticism
By JTA
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, waves to supporters during a rally in Istanbul, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP)
January 17, 2018, 1:07 am
Global survey finds Turkey is no longer a free country
Blaming Trump, think tank warns world democracy in crisis in annual freedom report; Israel only free nation in Mideast, but also takes downturn on civil liberties
By Raoul Wootliff
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