Author: Michele Chabin
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Trump administration not in a Palestinian state of mind
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save JERUSALEM — If Britain, France, Canada, and Australia recognize a Palestinian state during the United Nations General Assembly’s annual Sept. 9-28 meeting in New York, their actions will have no legal significance. However, they could…
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Trump administration makes headway in campus antisemitism legal fights
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump‘s threat to defund universities and colleges that do not take concrete measures to fight antisemitism has already had the desired effect. In recent weeks, Columbia University, Barnard College, and Brown University have…
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In Jerusalem, thousands of Israeli women mark the end of 7 years of daily Talmud study
JERUSALEM • For the past seven and a half years, six days a week, Michelle Cohen Farber has been teaching one page of Talmud a day — a practice known as Daf Yomi — to a group of dedicated Orthodox Jewish women in her dining room, and a few hundred other people — the vast…
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In Israel, a rabbinical plan to hide Africans facing deportation
Eritrean migrants wear chains to mimic slaves at a demonstration against the Israeli government’s policy to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers from Israel to Uganda and Rwanda, outside the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, on Jan. 17, 2018. Hebrew signs read, “no for deportation, Rwanda equal to death” and “slaves for sale.” (AP…
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More Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews buck tradition and head for the army, higher ed
Moshe Lifshitz, an haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli, studies Torah while in the Israeli army. Lifshitz broke with his community’s tradition when he chose to enlist in the Israeli army rather than apply for an exemption to study Torah full-time. Photo courtesy of Moshe Lifshitz Moshe Lifshitz, an haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli, studies Torah while in the Israeli…
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In Christ’s birthplace, olive wood artisans carry on a Holy Land tradition
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) – Thirty years ago Bassem Giacaman, whose large extended family has lived in this town for generations, immigrated to New Zealand with his parents and siblings in search of a life far away from the turmoil of the Middle East. They left behind a small shop and olive wood factory, one…
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Cheers, rage and shrugs after Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Israelis walk next to screens display with a photo of the U.S. President Donald Trump ahed of his speech in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Defying dire, worldwide warnings, President Donald Trump on Wednesday broke with decades of U.S. and international policy by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Oded Balilty
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Middle East’s Samaritans link Muslims, Jews
“Centuries ago we, like the Jews, built our sukkot outdoors, but now we build sukkot inside our homes, according to our tradition,” said Yousef Sadaka HaCohen, a priest and one of only 802 Samaritans in the world, referring to the temporary structures Jews and Samaritans eat and sometimes sleep in during the holiday. Photo by…
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Some think interfaith dialogue goes nowhere. A veteran rabbi begs to differ.
In his new book “The Other Peace Process,” Ron Kronish, a U.S.-born Israeli rabbi, looks back on a quarter century of what he calls “interreligious peace building” in Israel. Photo courtesy of Michele Chabin In his new book “The Other Peace Process,” Ron Kronish, a U.S.-born Israeli rabbi, looks back on a quarter century of…