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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

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US President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden participate in a COVID-19 memorial event at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
January 20, 2021, 6:54 pm
On day one, Biden to undo Trump policies with climate, virus executive orders
New US president will end construction of Mexico border wall, end Muslim travel ban, rejoin Paris Climate Accord and WHO and revoke approval of Keystone XL oil pipeline
By Zeke Miller
Illustrative: US President Donald Trump at the 2019 Israeli-American Council National Summit in Florida, December 2019. (Noam Galai)
February 11, 2020, 4:14 am
Anti-Semitism on US campuses may force schools to choose free speech or bigotry
After universities fail to address Jewish students’ complaints, Trump issues EO to end discrimination — but even victims have second thoughts about how it might be enforced
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
January 9, 2020, 4:44 am
The scholar who wrote the definition of anti-Semitism says it’s been subverted
Kenneth Stern claims the executive order on campus anti-Semitism will do more to stifle pro-Palestinian speech than protect Jewish students
By Eric Cortellessa
SoundCloud screenshot image: US President Donald J. Trump welcomes Austin Polonski of San Francisco, California, on stage December 11, 2019, during an afternoon Hanukkah Reception in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
December 26, 2019, 2:17 pm
LISTEN: Jews are a religion and a people — until the NYT claims Trump thinks so
ToI’s analyst Haviv Rettig Gur talks about the long-term push-pull relationship between American Jews and Jewish Peoplehood in light of US President Trump’s new executive order
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the United Nations General Assembly, September 24, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
December 15, 2019, 7:51 pm
LISTEN: From UK elections to a US directive, anti-Semitism is word of the week
Episode #15: Union for Jewish Students’s Esther Offenberg on landmark British elections * AJC’s legal head Marc Stern on Trump’s order * ToI’s Raoul Wootliff talks Israeli politics
By ToI Staff
This year’s heartwarming moments include a girl who helped decorate a vandalized cemetery, a dog who saved two lives, and an unlikely friendship between a monkey and a chicken. (Lior Zaltzman/via JTA)
December 27, 2017, 11:21 am
The 7 most heartwarming Jewish stories of 2017
This year saw plenty of happy features peppered among the violence and political discord. Here are a few of our favorites
By Josefin Dolsten
Israeli Staff serve pita and hummus to campers on Israel Day at Camp Tevya in Brookline, New Hampshire. (Amy Blotner/Camp Tevya)
September 2, 2017, 4:48 am
Executive order may keep Israeli counselors from Jewish US summer camps
Annual cultural exchange, along with summer staffing quotas, jeopardized by Trump’s proposed sharp reduction of J-1 visas
By Cathryn J. Prince
Activist Michele Freed, center, with other young professionals in front of the White House, March 1, 2017, at an event organized by HIAS. (Katie Jett Walls/via JTA)
June 22, 2017, 4:08 am
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
By Ben Sales
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
June 1, 2017, 12:59 am
With lawsuits pending, Trump moves to cut refugee admissions
President hoping to bypass injunction on executive order by slashing budget for resettling asylum seekers, eliminating emergency migration funds
By Matthew Lee
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Rose Garden of the of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, asking the IRS to use "maximum enforcement discretion" over the regulation, known as the Johnson Amendment, which applies to churches and nonprofits (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 5, 2017, 1:20 am
ADL slams Trump’s order on religious freedom while OU commends it
Jewish civil rights group says measure is troubling as Orthodox Union praises president for upholding religious freedom for all Americans
By ToI Staff and AP
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Rose Garden of the of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, asking the IRS to use "maximum enforcement discretion" over the regulation, known as the Johnson Amendment, which applies to churches and nonprofits (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 4, 2017, 8:58 pm
Trump signs executive order on religious freedom
President limits IRS action over church political activity, overturns ban on electioneering from the pulpit, allows church healthcare providers to not pay for contraception
By Catherine Lucey and Rachel Zoll
Illustrative image of US President Donald Trump signing the Education Federalism Executive Order during a federalism event with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, April 26, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
May 4, 2017, 3:03 pm
For Trump, ‘religious liberty’ could mean curtailing freedoms
Draft of an executive order to be signed on Thursday has Jewish activists and scholars worried about exactly whose beliefs are being protected
By Cathryn J. Prince
A group of Muslim protesters gather during a rally against the travel ban at San Diego International Airport on March 6, 2017 in San Diego, California. (AFP PHOTO / Sandy Huffaker)
March 11, 2017, 12:03 pm
Revised Trump travel ban gets first legal blow
Federal judge halts enforcement of executive order in case of wife and child of Syrian refugee already granted asylum
By Olivia Hampton
US President Donald Trump arrives at a meeting with members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
February 17, 2017, 6:21 pm
Trump admin. weighed use of National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants
Department of Homeland Security considered mobilization of up to 100,000 troops in 11 states, targeting millions of people; Spicer says report is ‘100% not true’
By GARANCE BURKE
US President Donald Trump arrives at a meeting with members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
February 16, 2017, 11:47 pm
Trump administration drops appeal on stay of travel ban
US president says he will issue a ‘new and very comprehensive order’ rather than pursue fight in courts
By AFP
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