The December 2010 Israeli rabbi letter controversy was a scandal that erupted surrounding the appearance of two open letters, signed by a number of Israeli...
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government chose the term Israeli to denote a citizen of the Israeli state. The names Land of Israel and Children of Israel have historically been used...
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state of Israel. Through a complex system of "advice and consent" from a variety of senior rabbis and influential politicians, each Israeli city and town...
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government of Israel Eli Dasa, Israeli professional footballer Sharon Shalom – Israeli rabbi, lecturer and writer Maru Teferi (born 1992) — Israeli Olympic...
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Greater Israel and as Israeli Prime Minister gave the settler movement funding and Israeli governmental legitimisation. The Movement for Greater Israel (Hebrew:...
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Israeli apartheid is a system of institutionalized segregation and discrimination in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and to a lesser extent...
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Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish...
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson (redirect from Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson)
Rebbe. On the night of his acceptance, members of the Israeli Cabinet and Israel's Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog sent him congratulatory messages. Reiterating...
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progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley. Michael Lerner was born in February...
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status. More specifically in the Israeli context, racism in Israel refers to racism directed against Israeli Arabs by Israeli Jews, intra-Jewish racism between...
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Aftonbladet published an article accusing Israeli troops of stealing the organs of Palestinians in their custody. The Israeli government denied the allegations...
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Ron Yosef (redirect from Rabbi Ron Yosef)
Ron Yosef (Hebrew: רון יוסף) is the founder of the Israeli organization Hod, which represents Israeli gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews. His organization has...
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Bible code (redirect from Great rabbis experiment)
look-elsewhere effect. The 13th-century Spanish rabbi Bachya ben Asher described an ELS in the Bible. His four-letter example related to the traditional zero-point...
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natural if unintended consequence of the immersion of Israeli Jews in Holocaust imagery." Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov has drawn an analogy between...
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Jerusalem. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the decision and praised the announcement by the Trump administration. On December 8, U.S....
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Ovadia Yosef (redirect from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef)
a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Yosef's...
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The New York Times has been involved in many controversies since its foundation in 1851. It is one of the largest newspapers in the United States and...
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At the center of the controversy was Joseph Massad, a Palestinian assistant professor who led the class Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies...
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Shlomo Aviner (redirect from Rabbi Shlomo Aviner)
an Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He is the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Ateret Yerushalayim (formerly Ateret Cohanim) and the former rabbi of Beit El, an Israeli settlement...
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Israel Shahak (Hebrew: ישראל שחק; born Israel Himmelstaub, 28 April 1933 – 2 July 2001) was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University...
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Elijah (category Kingdom of Israel (Samaria))
Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Confrontation and Co-existence. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 9781135268121. Israeli, Raphael (2009). Peace...
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Chabad (redirect from Chabad-Lubavitch related controversies)
camps are in the United States. Rabbi Schneerson involved himself in matters relating to the resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict. He maintained that...
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Male circumcision has been a subject of controversy for a number of reasons including religious, ethical, sexual, and medical. During the late 19th and...
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Shas (category Haredi Judaism in Israel)
religious political party in Israel. Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual...
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companies have set up R&D centers in Israel, whilst 650 Israeli technology companies operate in the United States. Israeli American partnerships tend to contribute...
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Abraham Isaac Kook (redirect from Rabbi Kook)
traditional non-Zionist Orthodox Jews. In 1928, Kook wrote a letter to Rabbi Joseph Messas (Chief Rabbi in Algeria), addressing certain misquotes which were erroneously...
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Chaim Kanievsky (redirect from Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky)
שמריהו יוסף חיים קַניֶבסקִי; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek. He was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on...
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This timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict lists events from 1948 to the present. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict emerged from intercommunal conflict...
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down, an Israeli sniper who shot twice in an attempt to assassinate her, on missing yelled "You Arabs are all animals". Israeli orthodox rabbi and politician...
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David Wolpe (redirect from Rabbi David Wolpe)
September 19, 1958) is an American rabbi. He is Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple. He previously...
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