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Israel News For Now, American Enclave Feels No Fear
As the girls made their way home from Beit Shemesh’s Orot Banot school late last month, they appeared relaxed and carefree. Among the students was the strikingly blonde second-grader Naama Margolese, heading confidently home accompanied by her friend. For Hadassa Margolese, who waited at home for her daughter to arrive while cuddling her youngest child,…
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Israel News Occupation Divides Israeli Protest Movement
One year after Israel’s social protest movement was born, activists are battling over its soul. Throughout June, protestors once again started to flow into the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday nights. They all claimed to be reviving the demonstrations held weekly last summer, when tent cities proliferated all over the country. But it quickly…
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Israel News Out of Blue, Midwest Vote Becomes Israel Scrap
There are few Jews living in Illinois’s 8th Congressional District. But Israel and the proposed two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians are front and center in the heated congressional race there. To the surprise of many, the race between incumbent Republican Joe Walsh and Democrat Tammy Duckworth has become a battleground for supporters…
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Opinion Report Seeks To Erase Occupation
Benjamin Netanyahu has a bad habit of pretending he’s Houdini — sticking his head in a noose, scaring everyone half to death, then wiggling free at the last minute. The difference is that Houdini’s viewers got to watch from their seats, while Netanyahu’s audience is stuck inside the noose with him. And the noose gets…
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News Heartland Western Wall, Face-Off Over Bucky Shvitz
Click to read the comic in full. In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by staff writer Paul Berger and artist-in-residence Eli Valley who face off over Eli’s most recent comic which takes on sex abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community. Then, Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff drops by to discuss why an anti-abortion group…
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Opinion Will Olmert Be Back?
Will he, or won’t he? Now that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been exonerated on the key corruption charges that forced him out of office four years ago, everyone is asking whether he’ll try to make a political comeback. After all, it has emerged since he left office that he was involved in…
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Fast Forward Shrinking Palestinian Land Depicted in N.Y. Ad
Anti-Israel billboards showing a series of four maps to bolster claims that Israel has systematically confiscated land from the Palestinians have appeared at some New York train stations. The ads that went on display this week at Metro North train stations in Westchester County show a succession of shrinking Palestinian territories in four maps and…
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Opinion Woody Allen Talks Israel, With … (Surprise!) Love
L.A. Jewish Journal publisher Rob Eshman’s campaign to raise funds for Woody Allen to film in Israel has touched off a mini-media flurry over Allen’s merits as an artist and a Jew. Rob notes that Allen “has done much to define the image of ‘Jew’ in our time,” but has never been to Israel “as…
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