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  • Does Big Tech Have an Anti-Semitism Problem? – Opinion

    By: Richard Goldberg and David May – Newsweek; newsweek.com mployees at Google and Amazon launched a petition drive this week to persuade both companies to end their contracts with the world’s only Jewish state. Google and Amazon can send a powerful message in response by rejecting this anti-Semitic pressure campaign and incorporating the international working definition of anti-Semitism into its…

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  • Jewish Immigration to Israel Jumps 31% This Year Despite Pandemic

    By: Emily Jones – CBN News; cbn.com JERUSALEM, Israel – Jewish immigration to Israel has already increased by 31% this year, according to new figures from the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration and The Jewish Agency. So far, more than 20,300 Jews have immigrated or “made Aliyah” in 2021 – a significant increase from just 15,598…

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  • Israeli-American Joshua Angrist among Trio to Win Nobel Prize in Economics

    By: TOI Staff and Agencies – The Times of Israel; timesofisrael.com Professor awarded prize for his work on unintended experiments; taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and at Harvard before his current position at MIT Israeli-American Joshua Angrist, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is one of three winners of the Nobel Prize…

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  • Coronavirus: Serious Patients, Hospitalizations at Lowest since August

    By: Rossella Tercatin – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com Some 2,653 cases were identified on Sunday, with 2.83% of the almost 100,000 people screened testing positive. The number of serious coronavirus patients and hospitalizations in Israel continued to drop on Monday according to the Health Ministry’s daily report which showed that both figures were at the lowest…

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  • The False Accusation of ‘Israel Apartheid’

    By: Melanie Phillips – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the shallow and ignorant, whose knowledge of the Jewish state is entirely drawn from malicious propaganda that misrepresents Israel’s defensive measures as racist aggression. The campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel has recently moved into a higher…

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  • Texas Takes Steps to Divest from Ben & Jerry’s Following Settlement Boycott

    By: Jacob Magid – The Times of Israel; timesofisrael.com Ice cream giant, parent company added to state’s list of companies that boycott Israel, which will likely see Texas divest $100 million in state pension funds within 90 days Texas on Thursday officially added Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company Unilever to a list of…

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