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By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-dignify-or-to-destroy/

Published SEP 3, 2018

Become part of what might become the biggest letter writing campaign in the history of mankind. Anyone, everywhere may write a letter, personally or anonymously, to a designated world leader of choice in just three clicks. Immediately thereafter, the letter is published on www.buildingthebridge.eu and, simultaneously, it is flashed throughout cyberspace.

Source: Atlantic Council

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/do-china-and-russia-want-to-replace-the-us-as-mediators-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

By Richard LeBaron, Mohamed Bin Huwaidin, Daniel Rakov, Jonathan Fulton, and Joze Pelayo

Published May 21, 2021

This article is part of a strategic collaboration launched by the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC), the Emirates Policy Center (Abu Dhabi), and the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv). The authors are associated with the initiative’s Working Group on Chinese and Russian Power Projection in the Middle East. The views expressed by the authors are theirs and not their institutions’.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/un-envoy-warns-of-risk-of-new-israel-palestinian-violence-1.10430090

The Associated Press

Published December 1, 2021

Tor Wennesland says parties must calm tensions, reduce violence across the Palestinian territories, avoid unilateral steps including new Israeli settlement building and solidify the May cease-fire

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/anti-zionist-jews-are-jews-in-name-only-and-more-dangerous-than-external-antisemitic-threat-chicago-reform-rabbi/

By PHILIP WEISS 

Published November 26, 2021

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-zionist-selection-the-movement-rejected-jewish-migrants-deemed-too-weak-or-sick-1.10422540?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=829f0ff655

By Ofer Aderet

Published November 30, 2021

A century ago Zionist leaders strove to keep ‘weak people’ from immigrating. 'It is one of the most controversial disputes in the history of the Zionist movement'

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-ultra-orthodox-aliyah-to-israel-is-breaking-records-here-s-why-1.10427636

By Judy Maltz

Published November 30, 2021

For decades, Haredim in the Diaspora rejected the notion of immigrating to Israel. No more. Now, ultra-Orthodox American Jews see themselves as ‘the next great frontier in aliyah’ and are moving to Israel in increasing numbers

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, November 28, 2021 

Source: NRC.NL/AMERIKA

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By Merijn de Waal

Published November 23, 2021

Amsterdam | Biden opts for continuity and bipartisanship in his choice of a central banker as the battle over his ambitious Build Back Better bill moves to the Senate in the coming weeks.

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/who-is-the-outlier-trump-or-biden-the-answer-means-much-to-the-world/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-11-23&utm_medium=email

By Aron Heller

Published November 22, 2021

With the world trending authoritarian, will Trump turn out to be the first of his kind while the moderate Biden turns out to be the last of his?

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-series-of-unfortunate-thanksgiving-events-and-their-upside-for-jews/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-11-23&utm_medium=email

By Rabbi Yael Buechler

Published November 23, 2021

Early on, exclusionary discourse on the holiday led to dustups, clarifications and even an epic apology that helped Jews carve out a piece of the American story