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Articles
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LOOK WHO’S TALKING
Nearly the whole country – but who in Israel is listening?
There is a dramatic change in the political landscape. It is no longer only the opponents of the government’s policies protesting. Government supporters have joined the fray in protest and as such, a conversation – albeit raucous – has begun. The future character of the Jewish state is on the line.
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A KING FOR OUR TIMES
The Eyes of the world on the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla
By Rolene Marks
While Israel’s President and First Lady Isaac Herzog and Michal will join with the 2000 honoured guests in Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the writer will join with the rest of the world, glued to their television sets enjoying a 1000-year tradition of royal splendor and pageantry.
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GUARDIAN’S POISONED PEN
By his grotesque caricatures of Jews, UK cartoonist signs off as an antisemite
By Adam Levick
The Guardian was again caught off guard as it published another antisemitic cartoon by its award-winning cartoonist, Martin Rowson. The offensive caricature incorporated a high-profile Jew in British society with an enlarged nose, carrying a Goldman Sachs office chest stuffed with gold and an octopus representing the antisemitic canard of Jewish control.
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“RUSSIA IS NOT HEALTHY FOR JEWS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS”
With first foreign correspondent since Cold War to be detained for alleged spying being a Jew, is it coincidence or out the Russian playbook?
By Jonathan Feldstein
Distraught at reading about Evan Gershkovich the US Jewish Wall Street Journal correspondent detained in Russia, brought back memories for the writer who in July 1985 visited then detainee Abe Stolar in Moscow. What do both US detainees have in common? Their Judaism!
“RUSSIA IS NOT HEALTHY FOR JEWS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS”
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