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The Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism ( IMPJ; Hebrew: התנועה הרפורמית – יהדות מתקדמת בישראל, romanized : Hatnua HaReformit – YaHadut Kadima Beit Yisrael) is the organizational branch of Progressive Judaism in Israel, and a member organization of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. It ...
Israeli Jews or Jewish Israelis ( Hebrew: יהודים ישראלים Yêhūdīm Yīśrāʾēlīm) comprise Israel 's largest ethnic and religious community. The core of their demographic consists of those with a Jewish identity and their descendants, including ethnic Jews and religious Jews alike. Approximately 99% of the global Israeli Jewish ...
Israel Women's Network (IWN; Hebrew: שדולת הנשים בישראל, Arabic: اللوبي النسائي في إسرائيل) is a feminist non-partisan civil society organization founded in Jerusalem in 1984. IWN's mission is to advance the status of women in Israel by promoting equality through a range of projects and methods. [1]
Women in Black staging a protest in New Paltz, New York. Women in Black ( Hebrew: נשים בשחור, romanized :Nashim BeShahor) is a women's anti-war movement with an estimated 10,000 activists around the world. The first group was formed by Israeli women in Jerusalem in 1988, following the outbreak of the First Intifada. [1]
On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah.
The San Diego Jewish World is a publication that covers Jewish-interest news and cultural affairs in the San Diego, California, area and international Jewish news. The World was founded in 2007 by Donald and Nancy Harrison and was published by The Harrison Enterprises. It has correspondents throughout the United States, Israel, and in countries ...
The Hebrew word aliyah means "ascent" or "going up". Jewish tradition views traveling to the Land of Israel as an ascent, both geographically and metaphysically. In one opinion, the geographical sense preceded the metaphorical one, as most Jews going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which is situated at approximately 750 meters (2,500 feet) above ...
Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights since the Six-Day War of 1967. It previously occupied the Sinai Peninsula and southern Lebanon as well. . Prior to Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, occupation of the Palestinian territories was split between Egypt and Jordan, with the former having occupied the Gaza Strip and the latter having annexed the West Bank; the ...