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Following bitter debate, Ben & Jerry’s owner reaches deal to keep ice cream in Israel and the West Bank

June 29, 2022

Following bitter debate, Ben & Jerry’s owner reaches deal to keep ice cream in Israel and the West Bank

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) – After nearly a year of legal and financial battles, Ben & Jerry’s will continue to be made and sold in Israel and the West Bank, as its parent company Unilever announced Tuesday it had reached an agreement with its current Israeli licensee to assume ownership of the brand in the region.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Unilever is selling its Israel business interest

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‘After Shabbat, we will act’: American Jews gear up for wave of post-Roe activism

June 25, 2022

By RON KAMPEAS

WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups across the country are kickstarting into action to protest and potentially challenge the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that had enshrined the...

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A 5th Israeli election in 3 years? Here’s how we got here and what happens next.

June 23, 2022

By GABE FRIEDMAN and RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — It has become a common refrain: Israel is heading towards another national election. A whopping five times since 2019, to be exact.

On Monday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair...

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Nick Fuentes, white nationalist with GOP ties, says ‘Jews stood in the way’ of Roe v. Wade’s end

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist leader and influential figure among the rightmost flank of the Republican Party, told his followers that “Jews stood...

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Opinions & Voices

OP-ED: The religious right dances as the Supreme Court drops the other shoe

By ALAN SMASON

As previously leaked to the media this spring, the United States Supreme Court took a momentous and highly fractious step in dialing back abortion rights in this country on Friday afternoon. With its 6-3 decision in Dobbs...

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