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The confab will strengthen academic partnerships with the UAE and promote dialogue between Jews and Muslims.
“The Jewish state remains a miracle of God that continues to bless and change the world,” said Pastor John Hagee. “Seventy-five years since Israel’s rebirth as a modern nation, Israel lives.”
The General Assembly, featured only one session on judicial reform, with exclusively anti-reform panelists. Queried by JNS, JFNA president and CEO Eric Fingerhut explained that the panel—titled, “75 Years of Israeli Democracy: Understanding What’s Motivating the Largest Protest Movement in Israel’s History”—was about the protesters, not the reforms themselves.
Alaa Slalha, the coordinator for minority rehabilitation in the Department of Families and Commemoration, tells JNS about the critical work helping fallen soldiers’ loved ones.
The Israeli government barred Jews from visiting their holiest site for the last 10 days of the Muslim holiday.
Israel is an anomaly in the data with almost an even split between those who say belief in God is and isn’t a prerequisite for morality.
“There is zero debate that two temples stood in that place in scholarly literature,” said New York University professor Lawrence Schiffman. “Mohammed’s ascent ‘happens’ from there only because it is the Temple site.”
Court-watchers tell JNS they sense a narrow approach to the decision, leaving important workplace religious-freedom questions unresolved.
They do so over the regime’s objections and under the threat of imprisonment or death.
Israel and Jordan exchange accusations as rioters again barricade themselves inside Al-Aqsa mosque.
The two leaders discussed opportunities to expand the 2020 Abraham Accords that normalized relations between the countries.
We want to expand the Abraham Accords, Eli Cohen tells his guests.
