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Fast Forward Nuremberg Trial Flea Market Trove Headed for Chabad Center
Documents from the Nuremberg Trials recently found in a flea market in Israel are to go on display at the Chabad Jewish Educational Center in Berlin. According to an announcement from the Berlin Chabad center, the documents will be on display to the public next week as part of events marking the Jan. 27 International…
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Fast Forward Filipina ‘X Factor’ Sensation Rosa Fostanes Can Only Work as Caregiver in Israel
(JTA) — Rose Fostanes, the Filipina caregiver who won Israel’s “X Factor,” better not give up her day job yet. That’s because her work visa only allows her to be a caretaker. If she makes money working in any other field, even on her own time, she could be in big trouble with Israeli authorities. Deportable…
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Fast Forward UN ‘Jewish Israel’ Show Scrapped After Arabs Complain
Complaints by Arab states led the United Nation’s cultural arm, UNESCO, to cancel the opening of an exhibition on the Jewish presence in the land of Israel. The exhibition, organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center along with the governments of Canada and Montenegro, was scheduled to open Jan. 20 at the Paris headquarters of the…
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Israel News Israel Under Fire Over ‘Restrictions’ on Palestinian Academics — But What Is Truth?
In May 2010, Noam Chomsky, the famed linguist and left-wing activist, showed up at Israel’s Allenby Bridge border crossing, seeking to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank from Jordan. For hours, Israeli border police questioned Chomsky, who was planning to lecture at Birzeit, a Palestinian university near Ramallah. Then they turned him away. Chomsky, a Jew…
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Opinion ADL’s One-State Double Standard
Chile’s El Palestino soccer club recently raised the ire of pro-Israel groups when it decided to redesign its team jerseys, replacing the numeral one with a one-state map of Palestine. Because they show the entire map of Israel as Palestine, these jerseys effectively erase Israel, making it seem like the state doesn’t exist. In a…
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Fast Forward Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Is One of Israel’s Strongest Backers — But Why?
(JTA) — It took seven years, but one of Israel’s staunchest allies among world leaders will be making his maiden voyage to the Jewish state on Sunday. In announcing the trip last month at a Jewish National Fund dinner, where he was being honored, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Israel “a light of freedom…
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The Schmooze Michael Oren Joins CNN
Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will be a contributor to CNN. “Michael will be joining CNN as a Middle East contributor,” a spokeswoman for Oren told JTA in a statement. Oren, a U.S.-born historian who served as ambassador from 2009 until September, now splits his time between Israel, where he…
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Israel News Israel Gets Poor Environmental Marks on Tu B’Shvat ‘Green Report Card’
(Haaretz) — Tu Bishvat, the so-called Jewish Arbor Day, what better time to examine the preservation of nature in Israel and compare it to the situation in other countries? To do this, we can turn to a new report issued by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, which will be presented in…
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