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Life Earning My Hebrew Accent
I spent the summer before college holed up in my room in front of my laptop watching strange cartoon letters take shape and trying to replicate them on my own. I was teaching myself Hebrew. I’d just been to Israel twice and had become deeply embarrassed that I could not understand a language that was…
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Fast Forward Talks on New Israel Draft Law Collapse
A meeting of a committee convened for the purpose of creating new IDF draft legislation, focusing on ultra-Orthodox recruits, broke down as an intense argument between Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon erupted on Wednesday. The two plan to submit the bill on Monday for a first reading in the plenum,…
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Fast Forward Ari Fleischer Accuses Obama of Bullying Israel
The former White House press secretary for the Bush administration has assailed President Obama for “pushing Israel around” and forcing the Jewish state to “make harmful, unwise concessions.” Addressing a group of dual Israeli-U.S. citizens Tuesday night at a get-out-the-vote event in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Ari Fleischer questioned Obama’s commitment to Israel….
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Slams Idea of Legalizing Occupation
Israeli President Shimon Peres called West Bank settlements a threat to Israel. The remarks, made Tuesday at the annual ceremony in memory of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, appeared to address a report released Sunday that said “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in the West Bank, and…
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Israel News Young Jews More Interested in Israel: Poll
Young Jews are now more attached to Israel than the previous generation, almost reaching the level of interest of their elders, a new poll reveals. While Jews 45 and older were rated as having a 40-44 level of attachment to Israel, those between 35 and 45 only scored a 24. Those under 35 got a…
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News Israelis Head to London With High Hopes
Israelis and their Summer Olympics athletes are eyeing the upcoming London Games with excitement and sadness. The athletes are hoping that for the sixth straight summer Games, at least one of them will come home with a medal. Yet they are well aware that the International Olympics Committee has again spurned the campaign to have…
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Fast Forward Israeli Sperm Declines in Quality: Report
The growing mass of research pointing at the decline in the quality of Israeli male semen is joined recently by a study conducted at the Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, which found a 15-year decline in the quality of semen donated by Israeli sperm donors. The study looked at several factors of 2,182 sperm samples gathered…
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Fast Forward Israeli Protest Demands Equal Service
Thousands of protesters marched in central Tel Aviv on Saturday to demand ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors share the burden of military and civilian service. Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz and his predecessor Tzipi Livni also attended the rally, as did “Yesh Atid” chairman Yair Lapid. According to Police estimates 20,000 persons arrived at the Museum Plaza….
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