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Gina Waldman, president of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA) in Jerusalem, November 30, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
November 30, 2014, 6:00 pm
For Jewish ex-refugees, it’s about recognition, not politics
Having been forced to flee their homelands, Middle Eastern Jews seek redress and insist their claims have nothing to do with the Palestinians
By Elhanan Miller
IJC president and co-founder Vladimir Sloutsker addresses the Trilateral Dialogue of European, JFNA and Israeli Jewish leaders at the JFNA General Assembly on November 10, 2014. (Benjamin Lifshitz / IJC)
November 14, 2014, 6:41 pm
Help us fight anti-Semitism, European Jews urge American counterparts
A Trilateral Dialogue of American, European and Israeli Jewish leaders in DC spotlights inadequate means to combat oldest hatred as it gains ground in Europe
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and Amanda Borschel-Dan
MK Amram Mitzna (Hatnua), seen in the Knesset February 24, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
September 4, 2014, 2:45 am
MKs stand up war widow, southern students
Delegation of 13 lawmakers was slated to visit schoolchildren and wife of civilian killed by mortar fire, but only one turned up
By Marissa Newman
Is that a Star of David on your shirt, or are you just pleased to be see me (screenshot detail, 53 seconds into Nike commercial)
June 11, 2014, 10:14 pm
ADL rejects anti-Semitism in Nike ad
Just because clones’ logos have six points, it doesn’t mean they’re anti-Jewish, watchdog says
By Ilan Ben Zion
The Knesset, Jerusalem (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
March 7, 2014, 12:42 pm
What the latest MKs’ expenses report tells us about our lawmakers
Why do Haredi MKs pay for a beeper service, and how do you spend nearly 12,000 shekels on newspaper subscriptions?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Yemenite Jews walking to Aden, the site of a reception camp, ahead of their emigration to Israel, 1949. (Kluger Zoltan/Israeli National Photo Archive/public domain)
February 4, 2014, 1:54 pm
Jewish ‘refugee day’ proposal advances in Knesset
‘This story touches half the residents of Israel, but is almost unknown,’ explains Morocco-born MK Shimon Ohayon
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Meir Schijveschuurder, who lost his parents and three of his brothers in the suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizza parlor in Jerusalem in 2001, puts on a yellow Star of David that says 'Modern Holocaust survivor in the Jewish state' at a session of the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2011, during a committee session regarding the Terror Victims Stipends Bill. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
January 15, 2014, 3:06 pm
Nazi name-calling bill moves ahead over objections
Attorney general, opposition MKs say law is overreaching and ambiguous
By Spencer Ho and ToI Staff
A member of the extreme anti-Zionist Naturei Karta ultra-Orthodox sect in the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. May 2 2011. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 12, 2014, 9:47 pm
Bill to ban Nazi symbols, name-calling, advances
Transgressors would face six-month prison term and NIS 100,000 fine
By Marissa Newman
A plane arriving at Lod Airport carrying Jewish immigrants from Iraq and Kurdistan via Tehran, May 1951. (GPO)
July 16, 2013, 6:13 am
Gov’t backs bill marking memorial day for Jews of Arab lands
Moroccan-born MK urges Arab League chief to recognize fate of Jewish community as key aspect to resolving Arab-Israeli conflict
By Haviv Rettig Gur
A Yemenite family walking through the desert on its way to a transit camp set up by the JDC, in 1949. (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Kluger Zoltan, Wikipedia)
June 21, 2013, 2:13 am
On World Refugee Day, Israelis and Palestinians demand recognition for their refugees
Moroccan-born MK: Arabs must ‘accept responsibility for driving out a million Jews’; Ashrawi: Israel must rectify ‘injustice’ to 5.3 million Palestinians
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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