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News Israeli Lesbians Become Face of Struggle for Gay Immigrants
A same-sex Israeli couple struggling against U.S. immigration laws are set to become the faces of the fight to extend one of the foundations of immigration policy to gays and lesbians. Adi Lavy and Tzila Levy have been caught in the bureaucratic red tape of the American immigration system since Lavy, who suffers from a…
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Fast Forward Hungary Hosts Jewish Congress Amid Anti-Semitic Flurry
Amid what the World Jewish Congress called an “alarming rise of neo-Nazi political parties and anti-Semitic incidents” in Hungary, participants have gathered in Budapest for the group’s plenary assembly. Highlighting these concerns, several hundred far-right demonstrators staged an “anti-Zionist” and anti-communist protest in downtown Budapest Saturday, despite the Hungarian government’s attempt to ban the rally….
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Fast Forward Reform Leader Rick Jacobs Backs Compromise Prayer Plan for Western Wall
The head of the Reform movement endorsed a plan for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. “At this moment I believe our path forward and our path is to support the bold, audacious proposals by Natan Sharansky,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said Friday at Connections 2013, the 36th International…
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Fast Forward Pamela Geller’s Talk at Toronto Shul Scrapped in ‘Hate Speech’ Flap
A speaking engagement by American anti-Islamic firebrand Pamela Geller was moved following police intervention. Geller, a vocal critic of radical Islam, was due to speak May 13 at a Chabad synagogue in Thornhill, north of Toronto, but the synagogue’s rabbi, Mendel Kaplan, backed out after a visit by the hate crimes unit of local police….
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Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Rejects 1967 Borders as Pre-Condition to Peace Negotiations
Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, has reportedly refused to accept the 1967 border as the basis for a final Israeli-Palestinian border prior to negotiations. Livni told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday that Israel would not agree to the 1967 borders as a precondition of peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Maariv reported. Rather, she…
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Fast Forward Upgraded Bunker Buster Could Destroy Iran Nuke
U.S. officials told Israel that the United States has new weapons capable of destroying Iran’s underground nuclear site in Fordow, an American daily reported. The Wall Street Journal on Thursday quoted diplomats as saying that U.S. officials had shown video footage to their Israeli counterparts of an earlier version of a bunker buster bomb in…
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Fast Forward China Offers To Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
China offered to broker a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be in Beijing next week on separate visits, each at the invitation of the government. “If the leaders of Palestine and Israel have the will to meet in China, China is…
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Food Portland’s Unofficial Jewish ‘Mother-in-Chef’
It’s brunch time at Mother’s Bistro & Bar and owner-chef Lisa Schroeder has a small crisis on her hands involving the accidental defenestration of a busboy. Moments earlier, a server had tripped and gone flying through one of the restaurant’s large picture windows. Shattered glass covered the pavement outside, where the hapless staffer was being…
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