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Fast Forward Diaspora Rabbis Urge Jerusalem Mayor To Withdraw Support From Anti-Arab Cleric
More than 1,000 Diaspora rabbis called on Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to withdraw his support for Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, known for his anti-Arab stances, as chief rabbi of the city. The rabbis, including the leaders of the major non-Orthodox Jewish movements and the head of the New Israel Fund, sent the letter to Barkat on…
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Fast Forward Israeli College Launches Chinese Media Center — First in Middle East
A college in Israel launched a Chinese media center — the first of its kind in the Middle East. The Chinese Media Center at the College of Management-Academic Studies in Rishon Lezion is part of the School of Media Studies. According to the college, the center will maintain a “proactive dialogue” with the Chinese media…
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Opinion Israel’s Missed Energy Opportunity
The Tamar drilling natural gas production platform near Israel / Getty Images It’s now a week since the scheduled start of one of the most important energy deals in Israeli history. But the signing was called off, hasn’t been rescheduled since, and now, uncertainty hangs over the future of the deal. Australia-based Woodside Petroleum was…
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Fast Forward Israel Scraps Prisoner Release — Talks in Danger
Israel has called off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners meant to advance peacemaking and called for the U.S.-sponsored negotiations to be reviewed, an official briefed on the talks said on Thursday. The official, who declined to be identified, said Israeli negotiators had informed their Palestinian counterparts of the decision in an overnight meeting held…
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Fast Forward Palestinian U.N. Move Carefully Tailored to Avoid Retaliation by Congress
When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed onto 15 international conventions on Tuesday, he shocked the U.S. sponsors of troubled Middle East peace talks. But the move was carefully limited to avoid American retaliation. Abbas’s action may have been designed more as a symbolic act of defiance to shore up his tenuous standing among Palestinians frustrated…
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Fast Forward Jewish Extremist Vandals Attack Christian Village
The tires of 40 cars and trucks were slashed and a hateful message was sprayed on a wall in a Christian village near Safed. The vandalism was discovered Thursday morning. It is the second attack apparently aimed at Christians in one week. The message sprayed on a wall of the Jish village read “Only goyim…
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The Schmooze The Israeli Barack Obama
(JTA) — Israel is getting crowded with big-name residents. In February a Jordanian named Yitzhak Rabin enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces. Now, an African American convert to Judaism in Jerusalem has officially changed his name to Barack Obama, the Times of Israel reports. A special committee at the Interior Ministry approved Mark Hardie’s request…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Admits Peace Talks in ‘Critical’ Condition
Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are at a critical moment although progress was made in overnight discussions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. “The dialogue remains open. There was progress made in narrowing some of questions that have arisen as a result of the last few days but there is still…
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