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Opinion The Exodus at the 92 Street Y
Well, I certainly never had that happen before. In years of moderating sometimes heated public conversations, never has a panelist just walked off the stage. But that’s what Commentary editor John Podhoretz did Monday night. And I’m still trying to figure out why. Of course, I expected a feisty evening when the venerable 92nd Street…
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Fast Forward Bedouin in Israel Calling for Recognition, Rather than Relocation
(JTA) — In this unofficial Bedouin town of 14,000 not far from Beersheva in the Negev Desert, families live in clusters of shanties with intermittent electricity provided by generators or solar panels. A communal structure has soft plastic walls and dirt floors, with a small pit at one end for an open fire that provides the…
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Fast Forward Canadian Protestant Leaders Speak Out Against Church Boycott
Leaders of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination are speaking out against their church’s boycott of products made in Israeli settlements. “We believe that this decision [to boycott] has damaged relationships that are vital to growing a just peace,” according to the website of United Against Boycott, which represents 47 leaders of the United Church of Canada….
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Fast Forward European Union Offers ‘Unprecedented’ Aid to Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
The European Union promised Israel and the Palestinians better access to European markets and “unprecedented” political and economic aid as an incentive to push them into resolving their decades-old conflict. Shrugging off gloomy predictions of failure, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said last week the Israelis and the Palestinians remained committed to peace talks…
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Fast Forward Attempted Coup in South Sudan Threatens Israeli Aid Group Operations
Intense fighting amid a coup attempt in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, has forced an Israeli aid group in the country to suspend its operations and go on lockdown. The heavy gunfire in Juba began late Sunday night; members of the Israeli group, IsraAid, reported artillery and automatic weapons fire in their vicinity. Salva…
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Fast Forward African Migrants Abandon Israeli Detention Center in Protest of New Law
More than 100 African migrants have abandoned an “open” Israeli detention centre to try to march on Jerusalem in protest at a law allowing authorities to keep them in custody indefinitely, activists said on Monday. Israel views most of the more than 50,000 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants who have crossed its border on foot from…
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Fast Forward Israeli, Lebanese, U.N. Officials To Meet Over Killing of Border Guard
Israeli, Lebanese and U.N. military officers will meet on Monday to defuse tension after a “rogue” Lebanese soldier shot dead an Israeli soldier the day before, Israel’s defence minister said. The Lebanese soldier went missing after the cross-border shooting, but has now been found, a Lebanese security source said. Sunday’s incident jarred the relatively stable…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz To Retire From Harvard Law School
Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s most prominent lawyers and a passionate, sometimes controversial, advocate for Israel, is retiring from Harvard Law School. The 75-year-old lawyer, who is known for taking on high profile and often unpopular causes and clients, has taught at Harvard Law for half a century. His retirement is official at the…
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