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Fast Forward Israeli Admits Killing His American-Israeli Children
An Israeli man has admitted to killing his two American-Israeli children to take revenge on his wife for divorcing him. The man contacted police late Wednesday night to tell them what he had done. The children, aged 14 and 10, were stabbed to death in their father’s home in the Yashresh moshav in central Israel,…
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The Schmooze All Aboard the Anat Hoffman Wedding ‘Love Boat’
Are you Jewish, Israeli and worried you won’t be able to marry under the auspices of the Chief Rabbinate? Anat Hoffman has a solution for you. The Women of the Wall leader has put out a call for a cruise ship that would allow Israelis to have extraterritorial weddings. “I am seeking a large used…
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Opinion Bowe Bergdahl Is All of Us
‘Was He Worth It?” blared the cover of Time magazine, as if that should be the question Americans ask in light of the release of Bowe Bergdahl after five years of brutal captivity by the Taliban. No, the question we should be asking is a version of the one Pope Francis made famous in a…
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Film & TV WATCH: Project X, Or Eternal Sunshine of the Palestinian Mind
Samer Bisharat, star of Oscar-nominated “Omar,” in Project X / YouTube If you’ve ever seen the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” you’ll immediately be reminded of it after watching the newly released short film “Project X.” The basic plot is the same. Except instead of Jim Carrey trying to erase Kate Winslet from…
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Fast Forward Soccer Boss Sepp Blatter Asks Israel To Ease Ban on Palestinian Players
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and delegates at the FIFA Congress called on the Israeli government on Wednesday to fully commit to FIFA’s plans to ease restrictions on movement for Palestinian footballers. “I call on the Israeli government to facilitate this movement and I go so far as to say its co-operation is crucial,” Blatter told…
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Fast Forward Israeli Sports Minister Defends Ban on Palestinian Soccer Players
Israel, looking to avoid censure at the FIFA Congress in Brazil on Wednesday, has defended its arrest of a Palestine national team player, telling the world soccer body he was a courier for Islamist militants. Sameh Fares Mohammad had intended to “harm the state of Israel and its citizens”, Israeli Sports Minister Limor Livnat wrote…
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Israel News Bowe Bergdahl Deal Mirrors Gilad Shalit — But America and Israel React Differently
The news of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s release caught Noam Shalit, father of Israel’s most famous prisoner of war, while he was visiting America. Listening to the media reports about the prisoner swap that freed Bergdahl from years of captivity by Afghanistan’s Taliban, Shalit was struck by the similarities between the case of the soldier from…
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Opinion Awkwardness Is Reuven Rivlin’s Gift to the Left
Newly elected Israeli President Reuven Rivlin with Benjamin Netanyahu / Getty Images Is Reuven Rivlin’s ascendancy to the post of president good news for left-wing Israelis? Yes, but not for the reasons most left-wing commentators are suggesting. Progressives should cheer Rivlin’s election not because he supports equal rights for Israeli Arabs or because he wants…
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