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Opinion Is Israel Preparing To Cede Temple Mount?
Israel is working on a secret plan to cede the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, a lawmaker from the ruling Likud party has claimed. “The issue here is that the prime minister wants to be rid of the Temple Mount,” Moshe Feiglin, a powerful figure on the right flank of the ruling Likud party, wrote…
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Fast Forward Abbas Invites Pope To Visit ‘Holy Land’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday invited Pope Francis to visit the Holy Land, matching a standing invitation from Israel. The pontiff, who has made many appeals for peace in the Middle East since his election in March, has already accepted an invitation from Israeli president Shimon Peres, and is widely expected to make the…
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Fast Forward Two Thirds of Israelis Believe Municipality Is Corrupt
The Holyland indictments, which taint Jerusalem’s former municipal elite with massive corruption, along with the past year’s arrests of mayors on suspicion of the same sorts of crimes, albeit on a much lesser scale, have apparently left their mark on public opinion. About two thirds – 63% – of Israelis think their municipality is infected…
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Fast Forward Turkey Deliberately Revealed Israeli Spy Ring in Iran
JERUSALEM, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Turkey deliberately blew the cover of an Israeli spy ring working inside Iran in early 2012 and dealt a significant blow to Israeli intelligence gathering, according to a report in the Washington Post on Thursday. Officials in Ankara, speaking on condition they not be named, described the article as part…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Is Back!
After two years off-screen, the tribe’s pride and joy (a Harvard graduate!) is back in the limelight. Natalie Portman shines on the November cover of Marie-Claire, and dishes about her love for Los Angeles, her upcoming move to Paris and how, really, she’s just like you and me. She even has bad habits! “I bite…
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Opinion No Censorship at Theater J
A small yet vocal group seems to be holding the artistic and ethical sensibilities of the Jewish community of Washington, D.C. hostage, leading Theatre J to scale back its planned production of ‘The Admission’ by Motti Lerner. Theatre, like all arts, is meant to create dialogue as well as delight, foster intellectual discourse for new…
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Food A Jewish Chef in Fiji
There are few Jews living in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, aside from a small Jewish community in the capital city of Suva who are mostly descendants of Australian merchants who arrived in the 1880s. One of them is Ofir Yudilevich, executive chef at the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa on the…
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Food Fiji-Style Fish Ceviche: Recipe
Fiji-Style Kokoda Pickled Fish Serves 4 The most famous Fijian dish is called Kokoda (pronounced ko-kon-da), which has at its core a ceviche or pickled fish. In Israel and in many Jewish homes around the world, pickled herring is on every grandmother’s table. Fiji takes this basic dish and put a twist on it like…
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