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Fast Forward Palestinians Stick to Peace Talks Despite Complaints
Members of the Palestinian peace negotiating team did not resign over Israeli settlement construction announcements, Palestinian officials said despite reports to the contrary. A report late last week on the Palestinian Maan news website said that negotiating team head Saeb Erekat and team member Mohamed Shtayyeh had resigned after Israeli announcements of new construction in…
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Fast Forward U.S. Spied on Israel Even as They Shared Intelligence
Israel has been the target of spying by the United States’ National Security Agency, the New York Times reported, citing documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. According to the report published Saturday, the U.S. and Israel collaborate on intelligence gathering, with the Israel Signals Intelligence, or Sigint, National Unit, a high level intelligence…
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News My Barber, My Book — and The Temple Mount
Are there toilets on the Temple Mount? I needed to find out. You see, a main character in a novel I was writing, “In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist,” is a toilet cleaner on the Temple Mount. Naturally, I wanted to know what the bathroom area looked like. As much as possible, I wanted the…
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Fast Forward Abraham Foxman Confirms ‘Time Out’ on Iran Nuclear Push
ADL National Director Abe Foxman has confirmed that leaders of major Jewish organizations have agreed on a limited “time out” during which they will not push for stronger sanctions on Iran. “That means that we are not lobbying for additional sanctions and we are not lobbying for less sanctions,” Foxman told Haaretz as well as…
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Fast Forward Israelis Omri Casspi and Gal Mekel Face Off in Basketball First
Omri Casspi made national basketball history when he became the first Israeli to play in the NBA five years ago. On Friday night, two Israeli players faced off in the world’s best league for the first time. The Texas match-off, which pitted Casspi’s Houston Rockets against newcomer Gal Mekel’s Dallas Mavericks, displayed low-quality play throughout….
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Israel News Inspirational Israeli Soldier Aharon Karov Runs in New York City Marathon
On Jan 12, 2009, during the Israeli army’s operation in Gaza, an apparently mortally wounded paratrooper was helicoptered to a hospital in Israel. The left side of his face, including his nose, had been ripped away, and his body had been pierced by more than 500 shrapnel fragments. It seemed unlikely that 2nd Lieutenant Aharon…
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Fast Forward Montreal’s Le Mood Scraps Panel With Critics of Israel
A Montreal Jewish learning festival has canceled two sessions that would have been led by a pro-Palestinian activist who calls for Birthright Israel’s abolition. Le Mood, a Limmud conference to be held this Sunday and funded by the local Jewish federation, pulled the panel titled “Where are all the radical Jews?” and another on the…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Quartet’ of Leaders Gives Barack Obama 60 Days for Iran Nuclear Thaw
Leaders of four major Jewish organizations have indicated to the Obama Administration that they will have a 60-day moratorium during which they will refrain from conducting any public campaign urging Congress to strengthen U.S. sanctions against Iran. The understanding was reached during a sometimes tense meeting at the White House this week between a group…
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