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Food Hummus Wars
My first date with my husband was at Hummus Place, a small Israeli owned restaurant in New York City’s Greenwich Village. At that point, I thought I knew what hummus was: a healthy chickpea spread we’d buy in college to dip baby carrots in or spread on bread for sandwiches. What else was there to…
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Israel News Border Towns Could Be Iran Safe Havens
During outbreaks of violence in recent years, residents of Israel’s far north and far south fled to the center of the country, seeking refuge in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other areas thought to be safe. Now, if Iran should attack Israel, many wonder if the flow could go in the opposite direction. The concern is…
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News Boro Park Purim, AIPAC Fallout, Ali Abunimah
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff about her profile of Ali Abunimah, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist who advocates for the boycott of Israel. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman calls in to discuss the fallout from last week’s AIPAC conference and Netanyahu’s victory in changing the dialogue from…
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Israel News Lightning Rod of the Boycott Israel Movement
Ali Abunimah was limping as he left Olin Sang Auditorium at Brandeis University in late February. The keynote speaker at the first Israeli Apartheid Week at the Jewish-sponsored school had a torn meniscus, and his doctor had ordered him to lay off the pain pills in advance of his upcoming surgery. “It is hard to…
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Opinion On Iran, a Win-Win
The conventional wisdom is that the latest meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if more cordial and productive than their eight prior exchanges, highlighted the stark differences between the two leaders as their nations face the threat of a nuclear Iran. And this gulf, so some urge us to believe,…
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Opinion Can You Still Say Panetta is Undermining Israel?
In addition to Mitt Romney’s remarks at AIPAC yesterday, arguing that his approach to Iran would be a radical break from Obama’s (though nothing he said indicated how it would be different), one of his high-profile foreign policy advisers, Dan Senor, also had a well-placed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal making similar points but…
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Life Slutwalks: Coming to Israel
Crossposted from Haaretz Canadian women did it, American women did it and even Singaporean women did it. Soon Israeli women will do it, too: This month will see Slutwalks (Mitzad Sharmutot in Hebrew ) in Tel Aviv (on March 16) and in Haifa a week later. A third Israeli Slutwalk will take place in Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward No Decision Yet on Attacking Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear to President Barak Obama during their meeting at the White House on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran to stop its nuclear program. Sources who were briefed on the meeting afterward said Obama and Netanyahu agreed to increase their coordination on Iran….
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