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Jacob Kamaras

Jacob Kamaras is the former editor in chief of the Jewish News Syndicate. His writing on the Middle East, American politics and Eurasia has appeared in The Washington Times, Independent Journal Review, The American Spectator, The Daily Caller, CNS News and other publications.

The two shows are “in the same jungle, but they’re different breeds. It has all the jokes that you would recognize from ‘Shtisel,’ but it also really stands in its own world,” actor Mili Avital told JNS.
“Our teachers and our children need to be taught Israel’s beauty and complexity in order to appreciate it,” said Jake Bennett, the Israeli-American Council for Action’s director of policy and legislative affairs.
“While language about teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was removed from the original version, district policy still requires such topics to be covered in an unbiased way,” stated StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
Rabbi Daniel Berman of Temple Reyim in Newton, Mass., said security protocols changed “dramatically” after the 2018 shooting, which “put our community in a different frame of mind. We needed to really shift the way we were thinking about safety and security in our synagogue.”
“As a representative of the State of Israel, I always use Israel as a prime example of diversity and tolerance and inclusion,” says Consul General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest Hillel Newman.
For years, it has been viewed as a shipping route, a source for marine resources, a beachside resort, even a possible garbage dump, says Professor Ilana Berman-Frank of the University of Haifa.
“This is not the West coming to enlighten the natives, so to speak. This is two different cultures, and they need to learn from each other,” says University of Haifa president Ron Robin.
Among the various contradictions implicit in the presidency of Donald Trump, outspoken antagonism from within the Jewish community has been among the most pronounced trends, despite Trump’s record of policies supporting and strengthening the State of Israel.