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Fast Forward Maariv Daily Newspaper Fails To Print Sunday Edition in Israel
The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv did not publish a Sunday edition. Workers were told by owner Shlomo Ben Tzvi not to come to work on Saturday night, the Times of Israel reported. The on-line edition was published on Maariv’s NRG website, however. It is not known if the newspaper will resume printing on Monday. The…
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Fast Forward National Jewish Groups Oppose Maryland Anti-Boycott Law
National Jewish organizations oppose a bill under consideration by Maryland legislators that would financially penalize any college involved in an academic boycott of another country. The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League in statements have said that while they clearly do not support the American Studies Association’s call for a boycott of Israel, which…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomats Strike, Take Emergency Calls Only
Israeli consular delegations told Jewish communities that consular services would be limited to emergencies because of a diplomats’ strike. “There will be no consular services until further notice except life-threatening situations and burials in Israel,” said one statement, distributed by the San Francisco consulate and attributed to the Foreign Service Workers’ Association. “Phone calls will…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans To Bare Iran ‘Arms Ship’
A ship seized by the Israeli navy on suspicion of smuggling arms from Iran to the Gaza Strip docked on Saturday in Israel, which planned to put the cargo on display in hope of denting Tehran’s rapprochement with the West. The Klos C was taken without resistance in the Red Sea on Wednesday. Israel said…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Concedes ‘Some Settlements’ Will Be Uprooted
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would give up “some settlements” in occupied Palestinian land to help secure a peace agreement but would limit as much as he could the number of enclaves removed. The settlements are a key issue in peace talks renewed under Washington’s tutelage in July after a three-year impasse. Little progress…
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Fast Forward Wounded Ukraine Protesters Airlifted to Israel
For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely wounded in clashes with Ukrainian forces on Feb. 18, Israeli medical care may be his only hope. After a pitched battle with Ukrainian police forces on Institutskaya Street in Kiev, Bedyuk suffered extensive liver damage — his brother, Aleksei, said Bolodimir’s liver “was torn practically in…
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News Ukrainian Jews Seek To Emigrate Amid Uncertainty
The Jewish Agency for Israel has seen a spike in Ukrainians looking to immigrate to Israel as turmoil roils their country. Marina Steiman, a Jewish Agency official in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, declined to give numbers, but she said the agency is receiving “more calls then usual.” Steinman, the agency’s director of community relations in…
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Fast Forward Pro-Boycott Israel Figures Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi Push Back
Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi are circulating a letter objecting to retaliation against those who support boycotts of Israel. Both Butler and Khalidi recently had events canceled at Jewish institutions after critics raised objections to their views on Israel. Butler, a literary theorist affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, pulled out of a talk…
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