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Israel News Pope Francis Makes Lasting Impression at Israeli Wall in West Bank
(JTA) — Perhaps the most lasting image from Pope Francis’ trip to Israel and the West Bank will be the pontiff praying, eyes closed, with his head against a wall. It wasn’t the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site and a necessary stop for visiting dignitaries. It was Israel’s security fence in the West…
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Fast Forward Israel-Bound Jewish Families Rescued From Strife-Torn Donetsk Airport
Israel’s Jewish Agency came to the rescue of two Jewish Ukranian families after rebels seized control of Donetsk airport as they were waiting to emigrate to Israel, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday. The two families, numbering six people, were stranded at the airport when it was shut down on Monday. The agency then launched…
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The Schmooze Rolling Stones ‘Excited’ To Play Israel
Listen up, Israel: The Rolling Stones are excited to see you. A video released by the band, on Tuesday shows guitarist Ronnie Wood saying: “We are so excited to be playing Tel Aviv on June the 4th. We can’t wait to be there, and we can’t wait to see you all in the park.” Squeal!…
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Opinion Reuven Rivlin Called Reform Judaism ‘Idol Worship’
(JTA) — If Likud Knesset member Reuven Rivlin gets elected next month to succeed President Shimon Peres as Israel’s next president, don’t blame Reform Jewry for withholding its applause. While Rivlin is thought of as an elder statesman and voice of reason within the Likud party, he hasn’t had the kindest words for America’s largest…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves Ahead With ‘No Occupation’ Report’s Suggestions on West Bank
Israel is adopting certain recommendations of a report that claims Israel is not occupying the West Bank. The government-commissioned Report on the Legal Status of Building in Judea and Samaria, authored by former Israeli Supreme Court Judge Edmond Levy in July 2012 and often referred to as the Levy Report, says that Israel is not…
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Fast Forward 2,000 Gather To Mourn Brussels Museum Victims
A crowd of approximately 2,000 gathered for a silent vigil in front of the Jewish museum in Brussels where an unidentified shooter killed four people. The gathering on Sunday came 24 hours after the shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in the center of the country’s capital. Prime Minister Elio di Rupo was among…
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Opinion March of the Living Exploits — Like 9/11 Museum
March of the Living participants visit Auschwitz in 2009 / Yossi Selliger This year, I made the difficult decision not to join my high school classmates on March of the Living, an organized trip that takes students to Poland’s death camps and then on to Israel. But it wasn’t until I read Meg Bloom Glasser’s…
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Fast Forward Was Brussels Jewish Museum Attack a Hate Crime — or Professional Assassination?
(Reuters) — The shooting of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum was probably a “terrorist attack”, Belgian officials said on Monday, though some security experts suggested it may have been the work of a hitman rather than an anti-Semitic ‘lone wolf’. An Israeli couple and a French woman were killed in the shooting on Saturday….
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