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Fast Forward Amusement Park Apartheid Furor Grows in Israel
A furore over perceived racism in Israel broke out on Thursday after it emerged that a popular amusement park had a policy of hosting segregated outings for Jewish and Arab schools. The practice came to attention after an Arab secondary school teacher, in an interview with Israeli Army Radio, said the Superland park near Tel…
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Fast Forward Israel Faces Risks in Striking Advanced New Syria Missile System
Israel could overcome advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles if they were deployed in Syria but any strikes on the system would be difficult and risk alienating its supplier, Russia. Israel has pledged to take preventive action, seeing a future Syrian S-300 as a “game-changing” threat to its own air space as well as to the relative…
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Fast Forward Michele Bachmann Jabs at White House Israel Policy in Resignation Video
In a video announcing her plans to leave Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann cited her criticisms of the Obama administration’s Israel policies as among her accomplishments. “I pointed out this administration’s despicable treatment toward our great friend and ally Israel, and at the same time giving little more than lip service to the ever increasing and…
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Fast Forward Israel Amusement Park Backtracks on ‘Apartheid’
Israel’s Superland amusement park said Thursday it would reexamine its policy of renting out the park on separate days to Jewish and Arab schools, following the storm that ensued when it reportedly refused to accommodate an Arab teacher who wanted to bring his class there on a school trip. “In June, many different schools want…
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Opinion 10-Hour Detention Teaches Lesson About Israel
Last weekend, I was detained for 10 hours and then deported back to the U.S. after flying to Panama for a weeklong vacation. I’m starting to get over the sheer frustration about the experience, which was caused by a Panamanian rule that visitors must have at least three months on their passports to gain entry…
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Fast Forward Radical ‘Price Tag’ Settlers Damage 14 Palestinian Cars
Fourteen Palestinian vehicles were vandalised on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem in what appeared to be attacks by militant Israeli settlers following the killing of one of their own last month. No arrests were immediately made in the so-called “Price Tag” incidents. The term is used by militant settlers who…
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Fast Forward Israel Reaches Deal to End Ultra-Orthodox Draft Exemption
Israel clinched a deal on Wednesday to abolish wholesale exemptions from military service for Jewish seminary students, ended a brief crisis that divided the ruling coalition parties. The issue of “sharing the national burden” is at the heart of heated debate over privileges the ultra-Orthodox minority has enjoyed for decades, and a government-appointed committee had…
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Opinion The ‘Unaffiliated’ Danger Within
Is the “unchecked growth of Jewish fundamentalism” the greatest existential threat to the fabric of American Jewish life? Our columnist Jay Michaelson seems to think so. In a passionate (some might say incendiary) column on these pages last week, Michaelson called on mainstream Jewish organizations to distance themselves from the ultra-Orthodox fundamentalist leaders who he…
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