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Israeli American Council

Nachman Shai, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs (center) takes part in a panel discussion at Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue with Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue (left), and Lori Koffman, director of content and innovation at Park Avenue Synagogue, Dec. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

In New York, Israeli minister promises progress on Western Wall’s non-Orthodox prayer space

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 9, 2021

Israel will set plans in motion to renovate the non-Orthodox prayer space at the Western Wall, an Israeli official said Tuesday in New York. The current Israeli government is expected to […]

(Photo/Flickr-Scazon CC BY 2.0)
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Local Jewish groups worked for years to fix the California ethnic studies curriculum. Please don’t minimize our work.

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin and JTA February 8, 2021
Ofek Hub teacher Mor Cohen. (Photo/Polaris Banks)
Posted inEducation

Jewish class shut down by Covid? Here’s an Israel-focused alternative

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 3, 2021
Rabbi Dovid Bush of Chabad of Petaluma lights the menorah at a Hanukkah drive-through event on Dec. 13, which drew lines of cars and over 650 people. (Photo/Courtesy Bush)
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — Dec. 2020

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 17, 2020
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016 in San Francisco. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch CC BY 2.0)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Silicon Valley CEOs bring Holocaust speakers into their homes

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 27, 2020January 28, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council's annual conference in Hollywood, Fla., Dec. 7, 2019. (JTA/Noam Galai)
Posted inU.S.

Speaking to Israeli-American group, Trump slams Jews who ‘don’t love Israel enough’

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA December 9, 2019
Donald Trump waving after addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016, before he was elected president. (JTA/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Trump will appear at annual conference of the Israeli-American Council

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA November 11, 2019November 11, 2019
Hadar Greenfield (right) talking with drone entrepreneur Dor Abuhasira at an IAC networking event (Photo/Yuval Greenfield)
Posted inBay Area

Gvanim helps Israelis in America navigate Jewish Americans

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 7, 2019
Koolulam founder and frontman Ben Yefet leading a singalong at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, May 2019. (Photo/Peter G. Marcus)
Posted inMusic

WATCH: Koolulam’s San Francisco singalong video drops

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 12, 2019
Knesset member Merav Michaeli embracing a participant at the Israeli American Council's annual Washington conference, Nov. 5, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inNews

Conference looks at what unites and divides Israeli Americans and their fellow Jews

by Ron Kampeas November 6, 2017March 19, 2018

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