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Fast Forward Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Leader, Suffers Minor Stroke
An Israeli rabbi who is the spiritual head of a powerful ultra-Orthodox political party was taken to hospital with a suspected minor stroke on Saturday, 10 days before a general election. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who has largely set the terms under which his Shas party has agreed to join a succession of governments, was taken…
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News Y.U. Launches Probe, Israel’s Elections
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward staff writer Paul Berger to discuss his ongoing investigation into allegations of sex abuse at Yeshiva University’s high school for boys in New York and the recent announcement that YU will launch its own internal investigation. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman discusses…
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Fast Forward Hamas: IDF Soldiers Kill Palestinian Along Gaza Border
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian and seriously wounded another in the northern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel on Friday, the Islamist group Hamas and hospital officials said. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire after dozens of Palestinians approached the border fence, an area Israel has long designated as off-limits to…
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Opinion Shimon Peres Talks with NYT About Iran and Bibi
“There are two things that cannot be made without closing your eyes — love and peace. If you try to make them with open eyes, you won’t get anywhere,” Shimon Peres tells Ronen Bergman in an illuminating interview in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. While the 89-year-old President of Israel tells the journalist he…
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Fast Forward Let the Games Begin
The antiquated election-campaign commercials, from which it’s impossible to escape, started airing this week. They ran the gamut from boring, to pretentious and stereotypical – to outright racist. The latter ad came from the new Shas, which Aryeh Deri promised would serve as a bridge between all parts of the nation under his leadership. The…
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Fast Forward Justin Bieber Sued for ‘Assaulting’ Israeli Bodyguard
The Israeli former bodyguard of teen idol Justin Bieber reportedly sued the pop star for assault. Moshe Benabou, who lives in the United States., is seeking unspecified damages for assault and battery and more than $420,000 in unpaid overtime, the news site TMZ reported. According to Benabou – who claims he worked for the singer…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Pitch Tents on Land Planned for Settlements
Palestinians from villages in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem pitched tents on Friday on land Israel has earmarked for a new urban settlement, looking to preserve the area for an independent Palestinian state. Scores of Palestinians erected about 20 large, steel-framed tents on a windswept hillside in an area known as E1, a geographically…
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Israel News Nebraska Jews Refute Hagel Anti-Semitism Charge
With Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense heading for tough confirmation hearings, the most explosive charge against the former Nebraska is that he displayed anti-Semitism in his relationship with Jews in his home state. Former deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams has sought to make Hagel’s supposed “problem with the Jews” a centerpiece of…
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