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Tag: Israel Independence Day

0 Politics Israel

Speaker Mike Johnson invites Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress

Ron Kampeas in JTA · 23 May

House Speaker Mike Johnson has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, providing support amid international legal troubles and domestic criticism.

0 Politics Israel

What Israel Urgently Needs for Its 76th Birthday

Joshua Hoffman in Future of Jewish · 14 May

On Israel's 76th Independence Day, the country faces a significant dilemma of dependency on U.S. military aid, which has led to compromising its autonomy and defense industry.

0 Culture Holocaust

The “Past & Present” Edition

Promised Podcast · 20 Apr 2023

In a recent discussion, Sally Abed, Miriam Herschlag, and Noah Efron cover topics including the politics of memory in cemeteries, the implications of a video made by Ashkenazi teens depicting stereotypes about Sefaradim, and the cultural impact of a new duet by deceased Yemenite singers created through AI.

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Celebrating Israel with Sharansky, Germany’s Hezbollah Ban, New UK Labour Leader

People of the Pod · 1 May 2020

Former refusenik and Chairman of The Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky reflects on Israel's 72nd Independence Day on the People of the Pod podcast.

0 Israel Education

Civil religion, Israel style: Independence Day case study

Tel Aviv Review · 25 Dec 2015

Adi Sherzer, a doctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University, discusses the construction of the Israeli national narrative in the early years of statehood, blending modern Israeli identity with Jewish tradition.