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7 things to look for in Israel’s elections on Tuesday
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis head to the polls for the second time this year on Tuesday. Exit polls from the country are notoriously fickle, so the real results of the election may...
Religion and science don’t contradict — they just answer different questions
CHICAGO (JTA) — It has been 60 years since C.P. Snow delivered his scathing Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Snow lamented the fact that...
Final polls show Israeli election is neck and neck — again
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five months later, the numbers apparently haven’t changed a whole lot in Israel when it comes to elections. In the final polls before Tuesday’s vote, Prime...
US diplomats pressed lawmakers in Ireland and Germany to oppose Israel boycott
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By chilling out on Rosh Hashanah, I made my Judaism truly meaningful
MONTREAL (JTA) — Picking through gefilte fish in the kosher department, searching for the freshest packages, I think of my Grandma Fanny. She made her gefilte fish from scratch,...
Israel’s election campaign has been a religious war of words
JERUSALEM (JTA) — One Israeli campaign ad depicts an Orthodox politician demanding “all the money in Israel.” There’s one of a secular Israeli man knocking the candles...