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Fast Forward Top Court Tells Netanyahu To Reconsider Western Wall Prayer Deal
Israel’s Supreme Court sent a clear message to the government on Thursday that it wants it to reconsider its decision to suspend a plan to create a new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. “What happened here? What happened here?” Supreme Court President Miriam Naor asked the attorney representing the state at a hearing…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Join Al Sharpton’s Interfaith March Against Trump
Hundreds of Jews joined with the Rev. Al Sharpton Monday for an inter-religious march through Washington on Monday to protest against the Trump administration. “We wanted 1,000 rabbis, Sikhs, imams, Christian ministers of all denominations because we wanted to say this nation is in moral trouble,” Sharpton told demonstrators at the Thousand Ministers March for…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says Trump’s So-Called Mideast Peace ‘Plan’ Is A Big Fat Mess
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a delegation of Israeli left-wing lawmakers that the Trump administration is in “chaos” when it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict — and has no clear peace plan. Abbas noted that in meetings with envoys representing President Donald Trump in recent weeks, he heard that they support a two-state solution to…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Paper Rips ‘Feeble’ Netanyahu As Rift Widens
The front-page headline of Israel Hayom, the paper owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning over his handling of the Temple Mount crisis, dubbing the matter “Netanyahu’s demonstration of helplessness.” The subheading termed Israel’s response to events on the Temple Mount as “feeble and frightened.” Up until now,…
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Fast Forward Jerry Nadler Slams Israel’s Western Wall ‘Insult’
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who represents the most heavily Jewish district in the nation, has been bombarded by angry calls over the Israeli government’s decision not to create an egalitarian prayer space at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. “People are outraged,” Nadler said. “This is a direct declaration by the government of Israel that…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Insists Western Wall Prayer Plan Isn’t Dead
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the leaders of U.S. Jewish federations on Monday that any other premier would have given in to pressure from ultra-Orthodox political parties and completely canceled the plan for an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, two senior Israeli officials involved in the meeting told Haaretz. The meeting was called…
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Fast Forward Festival Scrubs ‘Israel’ From ‘Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ Lyrics
Music icon Tim Rice is embroiled in a dispute with a New Zealand arts festival over the removal of the word “Israel” from the lyrics to one of his “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” songs in an upcoming show. The conflict between the famed lyricist and organizers of the Artsplash festival in Wellington has…
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Fast Forward Israel Cracked ISIS Computers — But Trump Leaked It To Russians
The source of the classified intelligence that U.S. President Trump shared with Russian officials in May was information Israel obtained after hacking computers belonging to ISIS, the New York Times reported Monday. According to the Times, which cited a U.S. official, Israeli “cyberoperators” managed to penetrate an ISIS cell of bombmakers based in Syria a number of months…
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