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News From IDF to the Catwalk
Walking into New York’s Lincoln Center, a venue at this year’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, is like entering an alternate universe. Muscled security guards watch over the doors, making sure only ticket-holders or grungy looking camera crews make it past their presence. Back stage, models, who all seem to look alike, disappear in and out of…
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Fast Forward Catholics Warn Israel on Anti-Christian Attacks
The “price tag” vandalism this week of the monastery at Latrun, in which the culprits sprayed the building’s facade with the words “Jesus is a monkey” and set the front door alight, prompted a fierce statement of condemnation signed by Catholic church leaders here. In a rare interview, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa cautioned Israelis over how…
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Israel News Taking Nomination, Obama Vows Support for Israel
President Barack Obama, who on Thursday officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for presidency, pledged in his speech to the Democratic convention to maintain his support for Israel and to counter Iran’s nuclear ambition. In a brief reference to Middle East issues in a speech which was otherwise focused on domestic affairs, Obama said that,…
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News Convention Update, Taste For Tongue, A Kinder Cut?
In this week’s podcast, host Naomi Zeveloff is joined by Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman who is currently in Charlotte, NC, reporting on the Democratic National Convention and the battle over relations with Israel. Then, Forward staff writer Paul Berger drops by to discuss how pain is managed in circumcisions. Finally, is cow tongue making…
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Life Arrested For Wearing A Tallit — Or Being A Woman?
Four women were taken into custody by the police on August 19 (Rosh Hodesh Elul) for wearing a tallit (ritual fringes) at the Western Wall, making Israel the only country in the world where wearing a tallit can be illegal, and the only country where there is a proposed law — submitted by ultra-Orthodox politicians…
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Fast Forward Left-to-Die Palestinian’s Family Settles for $250K
The State of Israel will compensate the family of a Palestinian who was left to die by Israeli police officers four years ago, in a compromise agreement obtained by Haaretz on Thursday. The state will give 875,000 shekels, or about $250,000. in damages In 2008, Omar Abu Jariban, who had illegally entered Israel from Gaza,…
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Fast Forward Troops Prevent NGO From Helping Trapped Africans
Israel Police barred on Thursday members of an Israeli physicians’ NGO from providing aid to African migrants who have been trapped between the fences on the Israeli-Egyptian border. For the past week, 21 Eritrean migrants, among them a 14-year-old boy, are trapped between the fences on the Israeli-Egyptian border and are guarded by IDF troops….
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Fast Forward Democrats Restore Plank on Jerusalem to Platform
Democrats restored language in the party platform recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Stung by attacks by Republicans and Jewish lawmakers, the party approved the change in a floor vote late Wednesday afternoon at their convention in Charlotte. It reinstated language from the 2008 platform. The change was first reported by NBC News. The…
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