Monday, October 27, 2014

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Netanyahu okays 1,000 new East Jerusalem homes
 
Plan calls for roughly 400 new housing units in Har Homa, 660 in Ramat Shlomo
 
By RAPHAEL AHREN and SPENCER HO
 
Bird's-eye view of Ramat Shlomo, March 1, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
 
 
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after addressing the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
 
Palestinians condemn plans for East Jerusalem construction
 
By SPENCER HO
 
Finance Minister Yair Lapid, October 20, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
 
Lapid warns new settlement plans will ‘harm Israel’s standing in the world’
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
 
Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat, center, at an event marking 20 years of Israeli-Jordanian peace, in Tel Aviv, on October 26, 2014. To his left is Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, daughter of the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
 
Jordanian envoy says peace treaty imperiled by settlements
 
By RAPHAEL AHREN
 

 
Anti-Israel protesters at a Boston rally held during this summer's Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: Elan Kawesch)
 
Bastardization of black feminist theory propels Israel-bashing on campus
 
Using the theory of ‘intersectionality’ first pioneered 25 years ago, Israel is condemned at universities amid a rise in anti-Semitism for imposing an ‘interlocking matrix of oppression’
 
By MATT LEBOVIC
 
 
 
 
Jeff Robbins
 
Just not the facts, ma’am
 
JEFF ROBBINS A willful ignorance by reporters and others who should know better helps spread false Palestinian narratives
 

 
Naomi Chazan
 
Parliamentary angst
 
NAOMI CHAZAN The Knesset is back in session and has a busy agenda but really just one job: topple the government
 

 
Judy Krasna
 
Don’t weigh my kid In school!
 
JUDY KRASNA How much damage can a school nurse with good intentions and a growth chart do? Plenty
 

 
Michelle Levy (photo credit: Courtesy)
 
Missing Jewish girl found in Sydney
 
Michelle Levy returns home safely; police questioning 11-year-old girl after two-day disappearance
 

 
MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) in the Israeli parliament on January 15, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
 
Bill to bypass High Court passes ministerial body
 
Ayelet Shaked’s measure would allow Knesset to vote on laws struck down based on Human Dignity Basic Law
 

 
Naor Narkis (YouTube screenshot)
 
Pudding protester to return to Israel
 
Naor Narkis shutters Facebook page that encouraged Israelis seeking a lower cost of living to head to Berlin
 

 
Limmud FSU Canada participants at the inaugural Canadian conference for Russian-speaking Jews. (Yossi Aloni, Courtesy of Limmud FSU)
 
MP Cotler stresses secure democracy at first Toronto Limmud FSU
 
Inaugural Canadian gathering hosts some 500 Russian-speaking Jews over three-day conference
 

 
Hebrew Media Review
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MEDIA REVIEW
 
MON, OCT 27, 1:54 PM
 
Israeli security officers during clashes with Palestinian protesters in East Jerusalem on October 24, 2014 (Photo credit: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
 
The volatile streets of Jerusalem
 
Last week’s hit-and-run terror attack claims its second victim, as police crack down on riots in the capital
 

 
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A Jordanian protester shouts slogans across the street from the Israeli embassy demanding the deportation of the Israeli ambassador after the killing of Jordanian judge Raed Zueter, 38, at Allenby crossing between Jordan and the West Bank, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, March 10, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
 
Two decades after making peace with Israel, Jordan finds little to celebrate
 
ANALYSIS Even as security and economic cooperation flourish, Hashemite kingdom’s media looks back at 20 years of peace with anger and frustration
 
By ELHANAN MILLER
 

 
‘At least 1,000′ Nazis worked for US as spies, author says
 
American agencies not only employed them, but also sometimes covered up their war crimes for decades, according to new book
 
By SPENCER HO
 Reproduction of Adolf Hitler from Israel Nazi hunter Tuviah Friedman archive (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
 

 
The mother of 22-year-old Ecuadorian Karen Yemima Muscara reacts during her funeral in Jerusalem, early Monday, October 27, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
 
Hundreds attend funeral of woman killed in Jerusalem attack
 
Ecuadorian woman who came to Israel to convert to Judaism laid to rest on Mt. of Olives after succumbing to injuries suffered in light rail attack
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
 

 
Light-rail terrorist buried amid clashes outside East Jerusalem home
 
Relatives of Abdelrahman al-Shaludi, who killed two people in Jerusalem attack, attend small funeral ceremony outside Old City with heavy Israel Police presence
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
 Abdelrahman al-Shaludi, who killed two and injured seven others after he rammed his vehicle into pedestrians at a Jerusalem Light Rail station, October 23, 2014. (photo credit: Channel 2)
 

 
Spanish Socialist party to submit motion recognizing ‘Palestine’
 
Second largest party in congress, backed by left-wing Israelis, to seek move to recognize state of Palestine
 
By JTA
 The Congress of Deputies of Spain in session. (photo credit: public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
 

 
Knesset kicks off contentious winter session Monday
 
Series of controversial bills, including budget and conversion law, expected to test Netanyahu’s coalition
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and HAVIV RETTIG GUR
 Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Tzipi Livni during a plenum session in the Knesset in June 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)
 

 
Peres reveals fountain of youth for TEDx
 
What is a bouzoukitara? How do chimps and humans process reality differently? TEDxJaffa sheds light on surprising topics
 
By MELANIE LIDMAN
 Guy Lerer of Tzinor Lailah interviews former president Shimon Peres at TEDxJaffa2014 on October 23 (photo credit: Arthur Fuhrer/TEDxJaffa)
 

 
In this Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014 photo, Gilad Fine, a religious Jewish farmer from Bnei Netzarim, stands inside his greenhouse, between the southern tip of the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian border. Fine grows lettuce and kale using hydroponics on raised platforms to fulfill the biblical commandment to let his farmlands rest every seventh year. His greenhouse follows specific guidelines that certify the produce kosher for the sabbatical year called “shmita” in Hebrew, that began last month on the Jewish New Year, and extends through the fall of 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
 
How a telemarketer named George helps Israeli farmers observe sabbatical
 
For this ‘shmita’ year, thousands have sold their lands to non-Jewish Russian immigrant George Shtraykhman, making him one of the country’s biggest landowners, temporarily
 
By DANIE

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