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Music Basketball World Unites in Cheering Ban of Donald Sterling
The basketball world was united in their support for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver following his decision to ban Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 million for racist comments. Past and present players and other team owners all voiced their approval after Silver effectively booted Sterling out of the game,…
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Opinion How Young Is Too Young for Shoah Education?
Getty Images Israel’s Education Ministry has left Israeli parents asking how young is too young when it comes to Holocaust education. Yesterday, on the Israeli Holocaust memorial day, Yom Hashoah, kindergartens began following a new government directive to teach the Holocaust. But is this really the right decision? First, it’s not just that every parent…
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Opinion Can ‘New Israel’ in Texas Solve Mideast Crisis?
Cowboy boots with Star of David / Congressional candidate Allan Levene (JTA) — With the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations floundering, it may, perhaps, be time to consider an entirely different kind of two-state solution. One that involves the State of Texas. Congressional candidate Allan Levene is proposing to cut the Gordian Knot of Middle East peace…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Banned From Basketball for Life Over Racist Rant
The National Basketball Association on Tuesday banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the game for life for racist comments that outraged players, fans and the U.S. President. Sterling, the longest-tenured owner of any of the 30 NBA teams, will not be allowed any role in the operations of his team or be able…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Israeli Lawmaker Slams Donald Sterling’s ‘Disgusting’ Racism
An Ethiopian-Israeli lawmaker called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this painful…
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Fast Forward Wounded Ukraine Jewish Mayor Stable in Israel After Assassination Try
The mayor of eastern Ukraine’s biggest city was in a stable condition on Tuesday in a hospital in Israel, where he was flown after being wounded in the highest-profile assassination attempt in the standoff between Kiev and Moscow. Gennady Kernes, one of Ukraine’s most prominent Jewish politicians, was shot in the back on Monday in…
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Fast Forward Israel Razes West Bank Mosque and Palestinian Homes as Peace Talks Expire
Israeli forces demolished several structures, including a mosque, in a Palestinian village on Tuesday, the day a deadline for a deal in now-frozen peace talks expired. A Reuters correspondent saw several hundred soldiers deployed in Khirbet al-Taweel, in the occupied West Bank, around daybreak. They guarded six bulldozers that reduced to rubble buildings that were…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Sorry for Israel ‘Apartheid’ Warning
John Kerry defended his Israel record, but also agreed that his use of the word “apartheid” to describe the dangers of a failed peace process was not appropriate in a U.S. context. “I have been around long enough to also know the power of words to create a misimpression, even when unintentional, and if I…
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