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Eliana Rudee is a journalist and marketing professional based in Seattle. She spent nearly a decade working as a journalist in Israel, focusing on global Jewry and culinary arts. She is a trained culinary tour guide of Jerusalem, has led culinary workshops and retreats, and has written several digital cookbooks on the intersection of food, culture and Jewish peoplehood.

Israel offers an energy that is “almost unlike anywhere else in the world,” both as a global entrepreneurial epicenter and a country that fosters leaders, making it a perfect location for such gatherings.
The report provides evidence that Palestinian groups have subjected children to “arbitrary detention and torture … inundating children with messages of hate and violence,” as well as “encouraging them to kill Israelis and become martyrs in the struggle to liberate all of Israel [from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea] for Palestine.”
All the way from Oregon, Joe Truzman disproved major points in the recently released U.N. Human Rights Council report—namely, that many of the report’s “victims” shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force were actually members of militant groups, including Hamas.
Following the testimony, hundreds gathered for the historic “Rally for Equal Rights” to protest UNHRC’s unprecedented assault on Israel, in which the council targeted the Jewish state in seven biased reports.
Some 8,000 Falash Mura are waiting to make aliyah from Ethiopia, their immigration previously approved in 2015 by a government decision.
A two-week leadership-training program “provides police departments a platform to share and exchange sources of excellence and best practice, learn from valuable experience and improve public safety for the citizens they serve.”
The government is holding back their aliyah because of financial and political reasons, says Aaron (A.Y.) Katsof, director of the Heart of Israel.
Members push to change the Israeli narrative, including among youth at Jewish summer camp.
“The ‘pay to slay’ law—the idea that someone who goes out and murders Jews is rewarded by the governing authority with money—is by far the most dramatic and obscene example of immorality. It’s the worst possible education there could be and the most morally reprehensible thing that could happen.”
The Israeli bill intended to discourage the P.A. from paying terrorists, and was previously given authorization by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to go to a final vote in Israel’s Knesset.
While young people were getting ready for their flights to Israel, they were asked about their knowledge of certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States.