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Fast Forward Barbra Streisand Lashes Out at Orthodox Over Treatment of Women in Israel
Iconic Jewish entertainer Barbra Streisand on Monday took a swipe at Orthodox Jews in Israel who compel women to sit in the back of buses and assault them for following religious rituals traditionally reserved for men. “It’s distressing to read about women in Israel being forced to sit in the back of a bus or……
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Opinion Syria Refugee Crisis Demands Action From Jewish World
June 20 is World Refugee Day. Let’s use the opportunity of this annual commemoration by the United Nations to put the “refugee crises” facing the U.S. and Israel in perspective with the true crisis exploding in Syria. The United States and Israel are countries built by refugees. A refugee is someone who flees persecution in…
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Fast Forward Ben Gurion Students Build Formula Race Car To Compete Internationally
Last week, Rani Dekel was doing doing donuts on the streets of Jerusalem in a blue and orange Formula race car with hundreds of thousands cheering him on. On Sunday, the car’s skeleton sat in a bare laboratory at Ben-Gurion University in the southern city of Beersheva, its colorful siding stacked on a shelf in…
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Fast Forward Naftali Bennett Says Two-State Solution Is Dead
The idea of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel has reached a “dead end,” Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday, as the double-talk from the government regarding the conflict with the Palestinians continued. “The attempt to establish a Palestinian state in our land has ended.” Bennett, a member of the government’s security cabinet, said…
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Fast Forward Could Israel Paté Ban Boost Kosher Enemies?
A senior rabbi from Paris has warned Israel’s agriculture minister that legislation in Israel to ban the import of goose liver could jeopardize kosher slaughter in Europe. “Imagine how it will look if Israel itself is the first to ban the import of goose liver, which was an issue raised by these animal welfare groups…
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Fast Forward More Than 130 Israeli Companies Make Global Tax-Haven List
Over 130 companies have an Israeli connection in the global list of more than 100,000 offshore companies that are used as tax shelters around the world. The list, published Friday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, includes names of shareholders, managers and directors. The companies with an Israeli connection have either Israeli board members,…
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Fast Forward Israel Toughens Laws Against Anti-Palestinian Vandals
Israel approved new measures on Sunday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property in a drive to mire security forces in sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank. Saying they sought to avenge attacks on Jewish settlers, the vandals have torched and spray-painted Palestinian mosques and cars and chopped olive trees in so-called “Price Tag”…
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Fast Forward Barbra Streisand Visits Western Wall After Landing in Israel With Puppy
Jewish-American singer Barbra Streisand landed in Israel ahead of her debut Israeli performances at the Bloomfield Stadium on June 20 and 22 in Jaffa as part of the Israeli Presidential Conference. Stepping off the airplane in the early evening, Streisand wore a white jacket, pants and hat, and cradled her pet coton de Tulear dog…
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