Who’s who in Israel’s new far-right government, and why it matters
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – Late into the fourth night of Hanukkah in Israel on Wednesday, incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had…
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Op/ed: Why we’ll fight Israel’s new extremist political agenda with the determination of the Maccabees
by Rabbi Rick Jacobs (JTA) — The Book of Exodus tells us that the penultimate plague inflicted on Egypt, the plague of darkness, was one of…
‘I love every square meter of this country’: Jim Carr, Manitoba Jewish MP, dies at 71
by Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Jim Carr was close to death from myeloma, a blood cancer, when he gave one of his last interviews to…
An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — The recent Israeli elections, the fifth in less than four years, returned Benjamin Netanyahu to the driver’s seat for the…
Volodymyr Zelensky named Time’s ‘person of the year’
by Caleb Guedes-Reed, Gabe Friedman (JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish president of Ukraine, was named Time’s “person of the year” on Wednesday for galvanizing…