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Opinion POLL: How Would You Spend Jewish Billions?
How should Jewish donor dollars get spent? Today, the largest share of Jewish donor dollars goes to Israel-related charities, as the Forward reported last week in the first part of our series on Jewish charity finances. (Part two of the series, published today, is here.) Are we spending too much on Israel? Or maybe too…
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Fast Forward Thieves Busted for Stealing 2,000-Year-Old Coffins
Israeli police arrested four men for stealing and attempting to sell ancient burial boxes. The men were caught Friday night with 11 2,000-year-old decorated stone ossuaries, ancient coffins used to bury the dead in the Second Temple period. Some of the recovered ossuaries contained skeletal remains and shards of pottery. Some also were engraved with…
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Israel News Jewish Republicans Focus on Israel at ‘Sheldon Adelson Primary’ in Las Vegas
The GOP Jewish faithful descended in force on Sin City, turning out in record numbers and striking a feisty, combative tone at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference. According to organizers, some 400 people attended the gathering, where they were feted with poker and golf tournaments, and wooed by presidential hopefuls. “In Jewish crowds, I’m…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Pollard Could Be Freed To Salvage Mideast Peace Talks
An Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage Middle East peace talks, sources close to the negotiations said on Monday. The sources, who spoke as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders,…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Seeks To Keep Peace Talks Alive
Secretary of State John Kerry broke from his travel schedule for the second time in a week to rush back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The U.S.-brokered negotiations faced a crisis at the weekend when Israel, saying it was seeking a Palestinian commitment to continue negotiations beyond…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Gets OK To Expand Right Wing Israel Media Empire
A Jerusalem court approved the sale of the right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon and the NRG news website to Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom company. Adelson bid nearly $5 million for the purchase of both properties, which also includes the recently defunct daily Maariv newspaper. Israel Hayom also will employ 95 percent of Makor Rishon and NRG…
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Fast Forward Ehud Olmert Convicted in 6-Figure ‘Holyland’ Bribery Case
An Israeli court convicted former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Monday of accepting a six-figure sum in bribes linked to a real-estate deal, probably ending any prospects of a political comeback. Olmert, a centrist credited internationally with working towards a peace settlement with the Palestinians, had denied wrongdoing in the Holyland apartment complex deal, which…
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Opinion Hillel Balances Donors and Students on Campus
Jay Michaelson’s recent column in these pages, “Only One Way to Change Hillel: Leave,” reveals a number of damaging yet popular misconceptions about the Hillel world and the role of donors in dictating the content of our programming. Jay, since you referred to my own recent essay here, “The Hillel Kids are All Right,” I’m…
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