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News ‘I am a Zionist’: 5 key moments in Joe Biden’s relationship with Israel
Since 1973, Biden has traveled to Israel 9 times and met with 10 Israeli prime ministers
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Opinion Biden’s last visit to Israel was spent doing damage control. Here’s what he needs to do now
The president's visit comes at a critical moment in U.S.-Israel relations.
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Fast Forward NY lawmaker withdraws endorsement from congressional candidate who announced support for BDS
‘I will not support a candidate that fails to recognize our democratic ally’s right to exist’
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Fast Forward Jewish liberal groups urge Biden to stop eviction of Palestinians from their homes in villages near Hebron
The letter echoes one sent to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken signed by 81 members of Congress in May
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News New poll: Israelis have confidence in Biden, but less than they had in Trump
The Pew survey, conducted ahead of Biden’s visit to Israel, also shows that Israelis are more likely to hold favorable view of the US than Americans hold of Israel
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News Trump’s Mideast peace envoy sees his fingerprints on Israel’s improved ties with Arab countries
Jason Greenblatt, a former longtime lawyer to Donald Trump, said he’s pleased to see Biden 'acting more cautiously' on the Palestinian issue and focusing on expanding the Abraham Accords
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Fast Forward Largest Presbyterian denomination labels Israel an apartheid state
Many Jewish groups had lobbied against the resolution
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Fast Forward Reform, Conservative leaders plead with Lapid to confront harassment of non-Orthodox Jews at Western Wall
‘We believe you have attained this position for just such a crisis,’ the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements write in a letter to the new Israeli prime minister
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Yiddish די ייִדישע גאַסנשילד פֿונעם פּאַריזער „פּלעצל“ איז צוגעגנבֿעט געוואָרןYiddish sign for the Pletzel, the Yiddish quarter of Paris, is stolen
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Fast Forward NYC voters say Mamdani best addressed the Israel-Palestinian conflict, poll shows
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Books Kafka and Chicago taught him to love literature, Rodney Dangerfield taught him how to live it
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News A new kaffiyeh policy is designed to help divided Jews pray together. Is this the Jewish future?
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