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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Joins Push To Free Jonathan Pollard
Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit wrote in an open letter that all Israelis should demand that the United States free jailed spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard. Israeli officials have said that the revelation over the weekend that the United States spied on at least two sitting Israeli prime ministers opens the door for Israel to demand…
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Fast Forward Kenyon and Indiana Quit Israel Boycott Group
Two more American institutions of higher learning officially withdrew their memberships from the American Studies Association after its membership voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. Kenyon College and Indiana University on Monday joined Brandeis University and Penn State Harrisburg in canceling their memberships in the association. Dozens of other universities also have…
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The Schmooze Ben and Jerry’s Excellent Holy Land Adventure
The Christmas-release underdog this year — in the ring with “American Hustle” and “Wolf of Wall Street” — is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” in which Ben Stiller plays a man with a vivid imagination who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. In an interview with Parade to promote the movie, Stiller dished about a…
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Food The First Israeli Whisky Distillery
Picture a bar in Tel Aviv, it’s early 2012 and a group of friends are joking about starting a whisky distillery – in Israel. It may sound funny, but this is no joke, and since those first meetings, I have been part of a team working tirelessly to make it a reality. Our efforts to…
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Fast Forward Gaza Sniper Kills Israel Border Worker
A Gaza sniper killed an Israeli civilian over the border on Tuesday, Israeli military and medical officials said, in a shooting that drew a threat of possible military action from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The man was the first Israeli killed on the Gaza frontier in more than a year. His death comes amid heightened…
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Fast Forward American Missions in Israel Limit Workers’ Travel After Terror Attacks
The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem have ordered their citizen employees to refrain from using sheruts, shared mini-bus taxis. The restriction announced on Tuesday is in addition to the longstanding prohibition on using public buses or waiting at bus terminals or bus stops in Israel. The prohibition on using sheruts…
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Opinion A Mideast Peace ‘Bridge’ Too Far?
A few weeks ago, President Barack Obama revealed that the current objective of American-led Israeli-Palestinian talks about a two-state solution is a “framework agreement.” This document, he explained, would not “address every single detail, but gets us to a point where everybody recognizes [that it is] better to move forward than [to] move backwards.” Secretary…
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Opinion Jonathan Pollard and the Spying-on-Israel Scandal
Israelis call for the release of Jonathan Pollard on March 19, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. “Hypocritical.” “Illegitimate.” “Unacceptable.” All these words and more are being used in Israeli political circles to describe Friday’s revelation that the NSA spied on former prime minister Ehud Olmert and former defense minister Ehud Barak in 2009. And how does…
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