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Variety
April 24, 2018
Julie Cohen and Betsy West are bringing “RBG,” a look at Justice Ginsburg that reveals the complicated woman behind the lace collar. Stefanie Brockhaus and her co-director, Andy Wolff, will present “The Poetess,” about the veiled Saudi poet Hissa Hilal. Irene Lusztig offers “Yours in Sisterhood,” a timeÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
April 24, 2018
We seek to provide an alternative space where pro-Israel, pro-peace students can discuss and advocate for justice for both peoples. ... The current conversation regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, both within Harvard's Jewish and Arab communities and on campus as a whole, lacks nuance—byÃâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
Chief Justice Agrees to Meet Netanyahu Only if He Puts Off Bill Discussion ... To really understand Israel and the Middle East - subscribe to Haaretz ... Two months ago Bennett and Shaked circulated a 61-MK draft bill that also required a panel of nine High Court justices to invalidate laws, and only by aÃâà...
Stony Brook Statesman
April 23, 2018
The Seawolves for Israel's celebration of Israel's 70th anniversary was met with protests from members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a chapter of National Students for Justice in Palestine that advocates for Palestinian rights and freedom. The Seawolves for Israel, a student club supported byÃâà...
Haaretz
April 23, 2018
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan charged Sunday that the Justice Ministry's department for the investigation of police officers “acted scandalously” in ... They also contradict Erdan's remarks on the day of the incident, which he described as “a difficult event for our forces and the State of Israel in general.
The Japan Times
April 23, 2018
Israeli justice minister vows to help Ethiopian Jews move to Israel. AP. Apr 23, 2018. Article history ... “These programs that will eventually reunite Ethiopian Jews with their families in Israel are not generally easy,” said Shaked to the group gathered in the synagogue. “But I will try everything within my power to work withÃâà...
Concord Monitor
April 19, 2018
Golda Meir was one of the first women to serve as a democratically elected head of state when she became Israel's prime minister in 1969. The Israeli Ministry of Justice can boast that it is led by a female minister, that over half of its judges are women, and that three of the four most recent presidents of theÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 19, 2018
However, Fingerhut said rather than having legitimate debates about Israeli governmental policies and borders, the BDS movement is “sewers opening up ... The challenge of BDS and other anti-Israel movements manifesting under the auspice of general human rights or social justice is students may feelÃâà...
Haaretz
April 16, 2018
Poznanski-Katz was convicted on her own admission on the charge of behavior unworthy of an Israeli judge and other ethical violations. Heading the panel that heard the case was former Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, who was joined by Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel and Nazareth DistrictÃâà...
Haaretz
February 22, 2018
Grosskopf is now a judge of the Tel Aviv District Court and was chosen despite his relatively young age, 49. A number of committee members were hesitant to choose him because he would serve on the Supreme Court for a long time, almost 22 years. Israeli judges have a mandatory retirement age of 70.
Haaretz
February 12, 2018
She added, however, that maintaining a Jewish majority in Israel and acting democratically “must be parallel and one must not outweigh the other.” Regarding the nation-state bill, Shaked said, “I was disturbed at both the position of the state and the reasoning of the justices. The state did not defend the lawÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
The argument over the authority of the High Court of Justice to overturn laws has been on the public agenda for over 20 years. The justices gave themselves that authority in a ruling issued on November 9, 1995, five days after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (United Mizrahi Bank v. MigdalÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
... years on Israel's High Court of Justice. Danziger announced a year ago that he would retire at 65, five years before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 for Israeli judges. In conversations with friends, Danziger said he believed he had achieved what he had wanted as a judge. At the time he citedÃâà...
