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Culture War on Yiddish in Israel
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 New Jersey’s Jews are furious after discovering that a number…
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Fast Forward Hagel To Meet Israeli Defense Minister Barak at Pentagon
New U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, whom Republican critics have sought to portray as anti-Israel, will meet Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Pentagon on Tuesday for his first face-to-face visit with a foreign counterpart. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the talks between the U.S. and Israeli defense chiefs would…
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Fast Forward Three Gazans Wounded by Israeli Gunfire
Israeli soldiers shot and wounded three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday as a number of violent incidents erupted along the border with Israel, Palestinian medics and an Israeli military source said. The new bout of violence came three days after Palestinian militants launched a rocket from Gaza into southern Israel for the first…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Road Cuts Village, Drives Arab Discontent
The mechanical diggers start work soon after dawn, cutting through a leafy village on the outskirts of Jerusalem to build a six-lane highway that has become the latest focal point of Arab-Israeli discontent. The road leads directly to Jewish settlements, built on occupied land around the foothills of Bethlehem. When finished, it will allow the…
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News Abuse Allegations at YU Didn’t End Abuse; Israel Lobby As Pop Culture
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor Jane Eisner to discuss why it’s the Forward is reporting on abuse allegations at Yeshiva University, even though the reported abuse occurred decades ago. Then, Forward reporter Paul Berger reports that one of the alleged Y.U. abusers continued to act inappropriately,…
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Israel News Tensions Threaten To Complicate Obama’s Middle East Listening Tour
A presidential trip designed as little more than a polite visit aimed at strengthening relations — while avoiding thorny issues — could be forced to face unexpectedly tough and substantive questions as conditions on the ground in Israel and the West Bank change rapidly. Palestinian unrest in the occupied West Bank and an unresolved post-election…
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Fast Forward Israel To Probe Birth Control for Ethiopian Immigrants
Israel’s Health Ministry has ordered an investigation into whether government employees or health workers prescribed a birth control drug to Ethiopian immigrant women as a way to control the population. Newspaper Haaretz reported on Thursday that a senior official had decided to name a team to look into charges that Ethiopian women were given Depo-Provera…
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Culture Netanyahu Sets Meeting With Peres To Request Extension in Forming Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Shimon Peres to request an extension in forming a government. Their meeting was scheduled for Saturday night at the end of Shabbat, which is the deadline for forming a government. Under law, Netanyahu can request an up to two-week extension, which Peres already has said he…
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