Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Mass protest in Jerusalem as Knesset advances judicial reforms over widespread objections
But following an address on Sunday by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, begging for negotiations over the reforms, the coalition said it would delay a milestone vote that would have advanced the legislation further.
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Fast Forward Israeli rescue team evacuated from Turkey on Miriam Adelson’s plane amid ‘concrete and immediate threat’
United Hatzalah said it had rescued 15 people from the rubble. The death toll in the Turkey and Syria quakes has crossed 33,000
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Fast Forward Fearing ‘constitutional and social collapse,’ Israel’s president begs for compromise on judicial reform
Isaac Herzog, whose role is ceremonial, said he would make himself available “at all hours of the day” for negotiations
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Fast Forward Biden weighs in on Israel’s proposed judiciary changes: ‘Genius’ of democracy includes ‘independent judiciary’
Biden’s comments come as the Knesset is prepared to consider the proposals for the first time — and as Israelis prepare to protest in Jerusalem
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Fast Forward Man arrested in shooting at San Francisco Jewish center, charged with drawing imitation firearm
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News In a shift, Hebrew College will now admit and ordain rabbinical students whose partners are not Jewish
“We should be training rabbis for the Jewish community that exists,” one rabbinical student wrote in arguing for the policy change
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Fast Forward Rabbi of firebombed N.J. synagogue: ‘We’ve unfortunately been preparing for this’
Temple Ner Tamid’s shatterproof doors withstood the Molotov cocktail thrown at it early Sunday morning
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Fast Forward Weapons have been heading from Israel to Ukraine — out of an American stockpile
Israel has declined to send weapons of its own, out of concerns about inflaming tensions with Russia
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