🇮🇹 Stati Uniti e Israele, le sfide della conferenza annuale di AIPAC 🇮🇹

NEW YORK—Non è cominciata nel migliore dei modi l’edizione 2019 della conferenza annuale di AIPAC, la più importante lobby pro-Israele degli Stati Uniti, che quest’anno ha raccolto ben 18mila partecipanti a Washington.

Prima, con il tweet poco fortunato della deputata del Minnesota Ilhan Omar. «It’s all about the Benjamins baby», è tutta una questione di soldi, ha scritto a febbraio Omar riferendosi al supporto americano per Israele. È un mantra pericoloso, che secondo molti odora di stereotipo antisemita. Alla domanda di una giornalista del Forward a quali soldi si riferisse, Omar ha prontamente risposto: «AIPAC!», sollevando un gran polverone per aver sostenuto che l’organizzazione pro-Israele «compri» il sostegno dei politici americani. (Photo: Michael Gross/ Public Domain). Continua a leggere…

Mutiny In Milan: Meet Italy’s First Orthodox Woman Rabbi-To-Be

Miriam Camerini is the first Italian woman to enroll in an Orthodox rabbinical studies program in Israel.

She revealed it earlier this winter in an article she wrote for JOI (Jewish, Open & Inclusive) Magazine, an independent Jewish publication. The comments ensued: But, contrary to expectations, they were overwhelmingly positive. On social media, fellow Jewish Italian women congratulated Camerini. Someone wrote: “It reminds me of a beautiful movie with Barbra Streisand…”, referring to Yentl, the fictional character of a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer who pretended to be a man so that she could study in a yeshiva.

Unlike Yentl, Camerini won’t have to cut her hair short or wear a yarmulke.

Silicon Wadi: Israel’s Arab Tech Boom

Paulus VI is the single, narrow artery that snakes through the old city of Nazareth, choked with a seemingly endless line of vehicles. On either side of the thoroughfare, there is dust and noise and vendors chatting at high decibel in Arabic in relentless heat. For the last two years, a sign above a modern sand-colored building spells out in English, “Microsoft.” The new R&D headquarters of the American giant is just one of the several tech-related initiatives to open in the city in recent years.

Known as Israel’s Arab capital, Nazareth is home to 75,000 residents, most of whom are Muslims. Two years into the implementation of the Israeli government’s $3.85 billion plan for the “social development of Israel’s Arab population,” Nazareth is now pushing to take its place alongside emerging competition from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan to become a hub of Middle Eastern tech entrepreneurship.