As we celebrate Sukkot this week, we’ll be thinking about many things – notably, how lucky the vast majority of…
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Angela Merkel was returned for a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor on Sunday, defeating her main Social Democrat opponent, as…
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York. (photo from Israel’s Government Press Office via…
diplomacy, Israel, Netanyahu, Trump, United StatesA young Israeli-American entrepreneur has invented an app that people – of any age – can use to find a…
tikkun olam, tzedekahThe American organization Jewish Voice for Peace claims as its mission the achievement of “a lasting peace for Palestinians and…
Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, JVP, peaceThe most recent racist conflagration in the United States was ignited, ostensibly, by the removal (or threatened removal) of Confederate…
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An estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people showed up at Vancouver City Hall Aug. 19 to protest a planned racist rally….
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(photo by Ryan M. Kelly via cbc.ca) Last weekend, in Charlottesville, Va., hundreds of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klanners, neo-Nazis…
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The Jewish Independent begins its three-week summer break now, and we wish you a relaxing and rejuvenating time in the…
#18under36, Chai Celebration, Cynthia Ramsay, Jewish IndependentThe government of Canada has apologized to Omar Khadr and awarded him $10.5 million in damages. Khadr is a Canadian…
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