Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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The Schmooze ‘Wonder Woman’ Actress Gal Gadot Announces She’s Pregnant
— Israeli actress Gal Gadot announced in a tweet that she and her husband are expecting their second child. Gadot, who will be playing Wonder Woman in DC Comics movies, posted a photo Sunday evening of herself and husband Yaron Varsano, an Israeli real estate developer, taking a selfie of the couple making a heart shape…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans To Boycott French Mideast Peace Conference
JERUSALEM — Israel will not participate in an international conference aimed at setting its conflict with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top advisers told the French government’s special envoy to the Middle East peace process. French envoy Pierre Vimont is in the region to discuss the plan for a conference, to be held in…
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Fast Forward Arizona Teen Gets 8 Years for JCC Terror Plot
— An Arizona teenager was sentenced to eight years in prison for plotting an attack on government buildings and the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Mahin Khan, 18, was sentenced on Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court a month after he pleaded guilty to charges of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to commit misconduct…
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Fast Forward Jewish Activist Wounded by Police Rubber Bullet at Dakota Pipeline Protest
— Erin Schrode, a self described citizen activist and journalist, appeared to be shot by a rubber bullet while conducting an interview with a Native American man on the sideline of the protests at Standing Rock. The Native American-led protest is over an oil pipeline that would run near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on…
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Fast Forward Jewish Tweens To Receive Free Books From PJ Library
— The PJ Library has expanded its program of gifting books with Jewish themes to young Jewish children to include tweens. PJ Our Way, sponsored by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, will send free Jewish children’s books in English to children ages 9-11. Program participants can select one of four books every month, giving them some choice…
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Fast Forward Anti-BDS Stance Now Law in Pennsylvania
— Pennsylvania’s democratic governor signed into law a bill that requires companies doing business with the state to certify that they do not boycott or discriminate against any sovereign state, including Israel. Gov. Tom Wolf signed the legislation on Friday. This bipartisan bill passed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by a vote of 181-9….
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Fast Forward Bibi Confident U.S. Elections Will Not Harm Relations With Israel
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reassured his Cabinet that relations between the Unites States and Israel will remain strong “whoever is elected” president in U.S. elections this week. “Whoever is elected the new president, I am convinced that US-Israel relations, which are solid and strong, will not only remain as such, but will…
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Fast Forward On Back of Vodka Money, LA Gala Raises $14 million for Israel’s Red Cross Affiliate
— A record of nearly $14 million was raised by the American Friends of Magen David Adom at a Los Angeles gala. Some $5 million of the total raised Tuesday at the Red Star Ball to support the services of Magen David Adom in Israel, an official Red Cross affiliate, came from a single donor,…
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