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Israel News Sue Bird First Israeli To Win Gold
So far, no Israeli athlete has captured a medal, although one Israeli citizen is likely to change that before the end of the Games. The only thing is, she’ll do it in an American uniform. As the United States continues to cruise toward a gold medal in women’s basketball, Sue Bird is coming closer to…
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Opinion Grace Meng Plays the Israel Card
Grace Meng has discovered her inner Israel hawk. Meng is the New York City Councilwoman who won a Democratic congressional primary in Gary Ackerman’s district in Queens this summer. In an op-ed in the Jewish Week yesterday, Meng suggested that President Obama “could have been — and still can be — a greater friend to…
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Fast Forward Israel Doctors Blast Blood-Sucking Circumcision Rite
The Israel Pediatric Association has declared war on metzitza b’peh, a portion of the ritual that doctors deem medically harmful but ultra-Orthodox rabbis deem obligatory. Metzitza, the final stage of the circumcision, involves extracting blood from the incision. Today, it is usually done with a sterile tube. But some Haredi (ultra-Orthodox ) communities still use…
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Will Speak at Democratic Convention
Former President Jimmy Carter, who has garnered much criticism in recent years for his harsh words about Israel, will address the Democratic National Convention during prime time. The Democratic National Convention Committee and Obama for America announced that Carter will speak Sept. 4 in prime time via video, as he will not attend the convention…
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Fast Forward Bulgaria Blast Probe Eyes Calls From Lebanon
Israel has evidence of many telephone calls between Lebanon and Burgas in the two months before the bombing that killed six people, the New York Times reported. The volume of calls intensified in the three days before the attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists, the newspaper reported Thursday, citing an unnamed senior government official,…
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Opinion Occupation, Not ‘Culture,’ Holds Back Palestinians
As a Jew of Iraqi descent living in Israel, I was taught to take prideful note of the role that my ethnic group played in building the country. ”You see that bridge?” my uncle would ask me as we watched footage of a Tel Aviv sports event. “An Iraqi Jew built it.” And when the…
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Fast Forward Guardian Retracts Tel Aviv Capital Claim
The Guardian newspaper retracted its claim that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel after a watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Britain’s Press Complaints Commission. In May, The Guardian posted a photo with a caption that referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The caption was later corrected, saying that it “wrongly referred to the…
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Opinion Free Speech Movement Hits Back
A group of California free speech advocates is urging University of California President Mark Yudof to reject a proposal to ban hate speech at UC campuses, saying that it runs counter to the spirit of the free speech movement, which started at Berkeley in the 1960s. “We hereby remind the university of its stand affirming…
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