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News Jonathan Pollard Release Proposal Angers U.S. Intelligence
A U.S. proposal to consider freeing a jailed Israeli spy caught many American intelligence officials off-guard and will face stiff opposition if the Obama administration decides to go ahead with it in a bid to salvage Middle East peace talks, officials said. Negotiations over the fate of Jonathan Pollard, a former naval intelligence analyst serving…
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Opinion Pollard Chatter Means Peace Talks Are Serious
Protestors call for Jonathan Pollard to be released from prison. / Getty Images Jonathan Pollard — the man who stole huge amounts of intelligence and gave it to Israel and has been sitting in an American prison for 30 years — has become a chip to be traded in order keep Israeli-Palestinian talks going. Pollard…
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Fast Forward White House Says No Decision Made To Release Jonathan Pollard
President Barack Obama has not made a decision to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. “Jonathan Pollard was convicted of espionage and he is serving his sentence,” Carney said. “I don’t have any other update to provide you on Mr. Pollard’s status. There are obviously a lot…
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Life Shameful in Beit Shemesh
(Haaretz) — It was as frightening as any terrorist attack, recounted the young woman assaulted in broad daylight at a bus stop in Beit Shemesh last week. But in fact, it was probably worse. After all, one might presume that if an Israeli Jewish woman had been attacked by a Palestinian in the middle of…
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The Schmooze Muppets and Bar Refaeli Too Racy for Israeli TV
(JTA) — A risqué ad featuring Bar Refaeli in bed with a purple, mustachioed Muppet has been banned from running before 10 p.m. in the holy land, Walla!, Israel news website reports. Per a governmental council called The Second Authority for Television and Radio, the ad for local fashion brand Hoodies has “too many sexual insinuations”…
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The Schmooze The JDate Haggadah
Do you want your Seder to be “the talk of the town through the end of 5774?” Of course you do. And JDate has your back (though you may have to cling to the thought that “all publicity is good publicity”). For the second year in a row, the online answer to all Jewish mothers’…
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Fast Forward Does Jonathan Pollard Object to Freedom Swap With Jailed Palestinians?
Secretary of State John Kerry met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time in less than 12 hours on Tuesday in an effort salvage stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. Kerry broke into his travel schedule on Monday for a flying visit to Jerusalem and headed straight back to Europe after his early…
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Culture David Grossman Creates Yet Another Wrenching Masterpiece
For readers left feeling bereft after David Grossman’s portrayal of the relation between the life of a family and the tragic corrosiveness of Israeli militarism in “To the End of the Land,” here is an audaciously unorthodox work that may serve as an emotional sequel of sorts. If we assumed that Grossman could hardly delve…
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