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Opinion Is Jewish Home Overplaying Hand?
In Israel over the last few months, the religious-Zionist right wing has been buoyant. Its political party, Jewish Home, reached an all time low in the 2009 general election, winning just 3 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, but then in this year’s election won a remarkable 12 seats. It had finally managed to galvanize the…
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Fast Forward Shocking Animal Abuse at Israeli Kosher Slaughterhouse
A severe pattern of animal abuse at the Soglowek Foods chicken slaughtering plant has been exposed in an Israeli TV report. The Channel 10 expose contained disturbing footage showing workers poking iron rods through cages packed with fowl to release doors that frequently get jammed, and how the chickens are knocked around and pile into…
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Fast Forward 1,700-Year-Old Curse Discovered at Jerusalem’s City of David
A 1,700-year-old curse was discovered recently in the ruins of a luxurious Roman villa in Jerusalem’s City of David. A few months ago, excavators led by Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets of the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a rolled-up lead tablet in the villa and sent it to the authority’s laboratories to be opened. When…
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Opinion Max Blumenthal’s ‘Goliath’ Is Anti-Israel Book That Makes Even Anti-Zionists Blush
There’s an unpleasant little debate sloshing around the Web lately that tells you all you need to know — and perhaps more than you want to hear — about the current state of relations between Israel and the left. The debate revolves around an unpleasant book published October 1 by Nation Books, titled “Goliath: Life…
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Israel News Israel Jewish Marriage Law Relaxes Orthodox Grip a Bit
In a landmark vote, the Knesset has allowed Israeli Jewish couples to do what their American counterparts have long done: Shop for a rabbi. The Knesset vote marked the first tangible gain for secular Israel since the country’s ultra-Orthodox parties were frozen out of the government after the last election. But the new law still…
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Fast Forward Israel Green Lights 3,500 New Homes for Jewish Settlers on West Bank
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered officials on Wednesday to press ahead with plans to build 3,500 more homes for Jewish settlers, hours after Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of U.S.-brokered peace efforts. Netanyahu’s step was seen as a way to placate hardliners who criticized him as the inmates, convicted of killing Israelis,…
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Fast Forward Israel Offers $5K to African Immigrants To Voluntarily Leave Country
The Israeli government plans to offer $5,000 to any African migrant who agrees to leave the country voluntarily and promises not to return. This is more than triple the $1,500 it has offered departing migrants until now. Over the past few months, hundreds of migrants, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, have accepted the previous offer,…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Celebrity Art Dealer Reburied in Israel — 143 Years After Death
A Jewish celebrity art dealer who died in 1870 in France was reburied in Israel after his body was exhumed from his Paris grave due to property laws. The funeral for Jacob Giacomo Tedesco on Sunday in Beit Shemesh marked the end of a seven-year legal fight led by his relatives to receive his remains…
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