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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

The origins of today's conflict between American Jews over Israel

Even before it existed, Israel was on American minds. Colonial preachers called their new land Canaan; Herman Melville saw Americans as the peculiar, chosen people, the Israel of our time. In the Second Great Awakening of the late 18th and early 19th century, American Protestants became obsessed with the Holy Land, and it was perhaps in response that one Jewish preacher had called in as early as 1818 for Jews to establish themselves in Ottoman Syria.
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fromtime.com
4 months ago

What We Know So Far About the Anti-Israel Shooting in Washington

Two Israeli embassy employees were killed in a shooting outside a Jewish event in Washington, D.C.
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