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Fast Forward Israel Doctors Blast Blood-Sucking Circumcision Rite
The Israel Pediatric Association has declared war on metzitza b’peh, a portion of the ritual that doctors deem medically harmful but ultra-Orthodox rabbis deem obligatory. Metzitza, the final stage of the circumcision, involves extracting blood from the incision. Today, it is usually done with a sterile tube. But some Haredi (ultra-Orthodox ) communities still use…
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Fast Forward New Internet Virus Targets Middle East
The Kaspersky internet security firm announced on Thursday that it has detected of a new kind of computer virus that has been targeting computers in Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. According to the firm, the new virus, called Gauss, was designed as a spy tool, and that it was programmed using the platform of…
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Fast Forward Ehud Olmert Rejected Arab League Invitation
During his term as prime minister, Ehud Olmert rejected an invitation by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and other Arab leaders to address an Arab League convention and set in motion a regional process based on the Saudi peace initiative. Haaretz has learned that the initiative first took place in a conference hosted by the…
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Fast Forward Reviving Israel’s Left Will Take Decade
In a gloomy building behind a gray iron fence on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim street, a group of intellectuals are holding court. They are dealing with the lost goblin of Israeli politics: the left. The somewhat pretentious goal of the group is to revive the Israeli left, which collapsed 12 years ago following the failure of…
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Fast Forward 1,300-Year-Old Olive Press Unearthed
A dig conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Hod Hasharon has uncovered a rare olive press from the Byzantine period, some 1,300 years ago. The excavation was being done ahead of the building of a new road in the area, near Kfar Malal. The dig revealed a surface for pressing the olives and a…
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Fast Forward Genes Tie N. Africans and European Jews: Study
A new study of genetic affinity among Jewish communities has uncovered evidence of genetic roots among Jews from North Africa that stretch back 2,000 years. Some findings are surprising: It turns out that Syrian Jews have more genetic commonality with Ashkenazi (European) Jews than with other oriental Jews (Jews from Asian and African lands). Also,…
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Fast Forward Munich Widows Blast Olympic Chief at Memorial
The International Olympic Commmittee (IOC) and its president Jacques Rogge were severely criticized last night at an event commemorating the Munich Eleven. Rogge sat through the event as he was attacked. The London memorial event for the fortieth anniversary of the murder of eleven Israeli sportsmen at the 1972 Olympics in Munich was unprecedented in…
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Fast Forward Sheldon to Mitt: Call for Pollard’s Release
Sheldon Adelson, the American Jewish billionaire and close friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has asked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to publicly demand the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, according to The Daily Beast. Romney refused the request, saying he “could not consider the Pollard situation because he doesn’t have access to the…
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