Author: Rachel Fink
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Replacing the irreplaceable: Judaica drive brings some joy to families hit by L.A. fires
To help the more than 500 Jewish families who lost their homes in California’s wildfires, a group of women launched Rebuilding Judaica, hoping to replace precious Jewish objects, many of them passed in families for generations. ‘It just makes you feel like you can start to move forward,’ one recipient says Feb 14, 2025 8:05…
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The Hague Group Multinational Alliance Pushing for Legal, Diplomatic and Economic Sanctions Against Israel
World News | Europe Government ministers from nine African and South American countries announced the group’s launch on Friday, saying, ‘When future generations inquire about our contribution to Palestine’s right to self-determination, our response must be, we took concrete measures’ Feb 2, 2025 3:38 pm IST Feb 2, 2025 3:38 pm IST Nine African and…
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New Zealand to Require Israelis to Detail IDF Service as Part of Visa Application Process
World News | Africa, Asia and Australia New Zealand will now require every Israeli to provide details of their military service to receive a visitor visa. A ‘genocide hotline’ has also been set up by a local pro-Palestinian group, and Kiwis can now report on IDF troops visiting the country Jan 30, 2025 6:01 pm…
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Israel Sees Wartime ‘Baby Boom’ With 10 Percent Rise in Births in Final Months of 2024
Israeli Culture | Health Thousands more babies were born between September and November of last year than in the same period a year earlier, a significantly higher increase than was projected Jan 10, 2025 12:06 am IST Jan 10, 2025 12:06 am IST Despite 15 months of war, Israel is experiencing what some officials are…
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‘Absurd and Tragic’: Israeli Chapter Responds to Suspension From Amnesty International
Amnesty Israel sources say employees heard the news through a mass email to all Amnesty International workers. They call the move an expulsion, not suspension, and say accusations of racism against Palestinians are ridiculous Jan 8, 2025 6:44 pm IST Jan 8, 2025 6:44 pm IST Amnesty International is suspending its Israeli chapter for two…
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Eyal Golan’s Alleged Sexual Assault Victims Speak Out Again – and Face Mansplaining
Art & Culture | Television TV Review | When the two women who accused Israeli pop star Eyal Golan of rape went public, it produced more results than 11 years of investigations. Their second TV interview would have been perfect, if not for the men interviewing them Jan 8, 2025 1:24 pm IST Jan 8,…
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Venezuela arrests Israeli for alleged role in coup against Maduro’s government
Haaretz | Israel News The arrest of 125 foreign nationals in Venezuela is the latest in a series of crackdowns by Maduro, widely accused both domestically and internationally of stealing the presidential election from his opponent At least one Israeli citizen is among the 125 foreign nationals arrested by Venezuela on Monday, on suspicions of…
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‘A Moral Obligation’: Protesters Outside IDF Headquarters Call to Refuse Army Service
Haaretz | Israel News Anti-war activists from Radical Bloc protested at Israel’s military headquarters, challenging soldiers and calling for conscientious objection to service. The demonstrators displayed images of Gaza and accused all military personnel, regardless of their role, of complicity in the ‘mass murder’ Jan 6, 2025 10:44 pm IST Jan 6, 2025 10:44 pm…
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‘I’ve Found a Way to Expose the Truth’: This Israeli Is Turning Protest Into an Artform
‘Artivist’ Hila Galili has been threatened with prison and begged by her family to stop, but the Israeli protester refuses to back down. What started as a personal demonstration in early 2023 has since become a determined campaign on behalf of the hostages in Gaza Jan 6, 2025 9:49 pm IST Jan 6, 2025 9:49…
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Germany Freezes Funding of Aid Organization, Cutting Off Israeli Human-rights Groups
Haaretz | Israel News In what critics call the latest measure of an anti-Palestinian policy, the German government cut funding to an NGO that finances Israeli human rights groups. ‘In discussions with German officials, we were told supporting the Palestinian right of return is unacceptable,” one rights group said Jan 6, 2025 8:31 pm IST…