• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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