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Fast Forward Settler Rabbi Blames Israel ‘Establishment’ for Clashes With Soldiers
The “establishment,” or the army and the government of Israel, are responsible for the current clashes between soldiers and settlers, the head of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar said in a statement. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh released the statement on Friday, addressing the takeover of the yeshiva earlier this month by the Israel Defense…
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Fast Forward ‘Price Tag’ Extremists Deface Palestinian Hero’s Tomb
The tomb of a Palestinian national hero was vandalized in a suspected “price tag” attack near Haifa. The vandalism against the grave of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Muslim preacher who provided inspiration for Hamas’ military wing, was discovered Friday morning in the city of Nesher, Army Radio reported. The perpetrators spray-painted the words “price tag…
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Fast Forward Winnepeg College Chief Shunned by Shul for Allowing Israel Apartheid Week
Winnipeg’s leading synagogue withdrew an invitation for the University of Manitoba’s president to address its Yom Hashoah interfaith service following anti-Israel events on the university campus, the National Post reported. David Barnard, the university president, allowed Israel Apartheid Week to take place over the objections of the U of M student government who feared the…
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Music Roger Waters Urges Rolling Stones To Boycott Israel
Two founding members of the Pink Floyd rock band called on their colleagues from The Rolling Stones to cancel a concert in Israel. Roger Waters and Nick Mason made the call in an op-ed that was published Thursday on Salon.com. “Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Battles Prostate Cancer
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, newly banned from basketball over racist comments attributed to him, has been battling prostate cancer, sports network ESPN and other media reported on Thursday. The reports come after the National Basketball Association launched a bid on Thursday to oust the 80-year-old as owner of the franchise, as urged by…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Battles Prostate Cancer: Report
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, newly banned from basketball over racist comments attributed to him, has been battling prostate cancer, sports network ESPN and other media reported on Thursday. The reports come after the National Basketball Association launched a bid on Thursday to oust the 80-year-old as owner of the franchise, as urged by…
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Opinion The Danger of Denial for Israel
We are not, of course, John Kerry. We have not, in the past nine months, met 34 times with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and reportedly twice that many times with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, staking so much personal energy to achieve the two-state solution that these men say they want but are unwilling to…
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Fast Forward U.S., Israel Reach Tax Information-Sharing Agreement to Combat Tax Dodging
Israel has become the latest country to reach a tax information-sharing agreement with the United States under a new law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesperson said on Thursday. Set to take effect on July 1, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010 (FATCA) will require foreign…
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Fast Forward 31st anniversary of AMIA bombing marked by ceremonies in Argentina, Israel and, for the first time, Congress
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee to Israel: End hostile treatment of Christian allies
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Fast Forward Connie Francis, 20th-century star turned TikTok sensation, recorded an album of Jewish songs in 1960
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