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Fast Forward NYC Mayor Eric Adams is heading to Israel next week
Adams calls New York City the ‘Tel Aviv of America’
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail system is finally opening. But not on Shabbat.
Officials had said until recently that the trains would run on Shabbat in Israel’s secular center
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News Israel’s protest movement has birthed a cottage industry
Vendors populate Tel Aviv's protests, hawking cold water and noisemakers
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Fast Forward Israeli public health experts: Judicial overhaul will negatively impact Israelis’ health
Among other things, the experts worry about the court's ability to protect health services
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Culture Beloved and loathed, decisive or stubborn, icon or enemy of feminism — does Golda Meir deserve any of her reputations?
Deborah Lipstadt’s new biography aims for a fuller portrait of the prime minister
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Fast Forward In rare move, security forces demolish illegal Israeli buildings in West Bank outpost
The evacuation of the illegal West Bank outposts was approved by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
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News Meet Jack Lew, Biden’s front-runner to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel
If nominated, Jack Lew, the 67-year-old Orthodox Jewish New Yorker who served as treasury secretary under Obama, will likely face fierce questioning in the Senate confirmation hearing about his role in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
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News Here are the front-runners to be the new U.S. ambassador to Israel
Tom Nides’ replacement is sure to face a bruising confirmation hearing in the Senate, or a 'sh*tshow,' as one Biden official described it
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Khalil pushes back on claims of antisemitism at Columbia in Ezra Klein interview
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro calls Netanyahu’s denial of starvation ‘abhorrent’, urges Trump to ‘flood the zone’ With Gaza aid
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Opinion A US official just made history in the West Bank — did he imperil prospects for peace?
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Opinion Nazi Grok is a problem. So are the far-right Jews using AI to spread hate
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