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Opinion How Spain’s Sephardic Law Makes Israel Look Bad
A night-time scene in the historic district of Córdoba, Spain. / Josh Nathan-Kazis It’s only been a week since Spain’s cabinet approved a law offering citizenship to Sephardic Jews, but Israelis are already tripping over each other in their race to apply. Between 700 and 800 have sent email inquiries to Maya Weiss-Tamir, an Israeli…
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Fast Forward Is Rolling Stones ‘Boycott Israel’ Facebook Page a Hoax?
A Facebook page claiming victory in getting the Rolling Stones to boycott Israel is an apparent hoax. The “Rolling Stones: Boycott Israel” page, established Wednesday, on Thursday reported that the group had cancelled a planned June 10 concert. It cited “sources with the Rolling Stones,” but there has been no such announcement. The page also…
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Fast Forward Presbyterians Seek To Disavow Anti-Israel Report
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) reiterated its support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in response to controversy over the publication of a Presbyterian study guide that rejects Zionism. “Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) policy calls for a negotiated settlement between Israel and Palestine and the right for each to exist within secure and recognized borders,”…
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News France Crackdown on Boycott Israel Activists Sparks Backlash
(JTA) — When Farida Trichine and 11 of her friends burst into a French supermarket in 2009 and began applying stickers with anti-Israel slogans to vegetables imported from the Jewish state, she expected to be escorted from the store by police. What she didn’t expect was to be convicted of inciting racial hatred and slapped…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Slam Israel ‘Jail’ for African Immigrants
An array of U.S. Jewish groups urged Israel’s government to introduce refugee asylum reforms, saying that a major holding facility was indistinguishable from a jail. The letter sent Wednesday to the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that Israeli authorities have ordered asylum seekers to move to the Holot facility in Israel’s south. “While…
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Fast Forward African Immigrants Wait for Change in ‘Open’ Israeli Desert Prison
A compound of one-storey buildings deep in the southern Israeli desert is now home to some 400 African migrants who face the prospect of being held in custody indefinitely. The detainees in what the authorities call an “open” detention centre are allowed to leave for a few hours each day, but given its remote location…
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Fast Forward 152 Jewish Leaders Back John Kerry in Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
A letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed by 152 Jewish Americans, including top centrist leaders, praised the peace efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “As American advocates for a strong, Jewish and democratic Israel, we have been heartened by Secretary of State John Kerry’s extraordinary resolve to advance this process consistent…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Pushes ‘Just World’ in American Jewish Committee Meeting
Pope Francis called on Jews and Christians to work together to construct a “more just and fraternal world,” and said he looked forward to his upcoming visit to Israel. Francis made his remarks during an audience at the Vatican on Thursday with a 50-member delegation of American Jewish Committee leaders. He called his visit to…
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