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Culture Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries
Sunday night, after Jews around the world mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem on Tisha B’av, CNN will premiere a series that — in so many words — traces 3,000 years’ worth of conflict to the laying of those structures’ cornerstones. Solomon’s Temple, author Susan Wise Bauer argues in “Jerusalem: City of Faith…
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News Take me out to the minyan: Inside Team Israel’s first pre-Olympic exhibition game
The most popular man in Brooklyn on Sunday night was Shlomo Lipman, a pitcher for Israel’s national baseball team, which had schlepped to Coney Island for the first of a series of nine exhibition games ahead of The Big Schlep to the Olympics in Tokyo in less than two weeks. Sure, Lipman’s team — made…
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Fast Forward EXCLUSIVE: Trump called Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden ‘an ultimate betrayal,’ new book claims
Former President Donald Trump resented that Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister he had forged a close relationship with, congratulated Joe Biden upon his electoral victory, according to a new book by journalist Michael Wolff. “It was startling to aides, however much they were anticipating an eruption, that Trump’s wrath fell on Bibi Netanyahu,”…
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News When the banks say ‘no,’ Israelis in need turn to a growing nonprofit option
In the weeks leading up to Purim 2020, Evyatar Cohen built up his inventory at the Kos Shel Bracha Wine Shop, his Jerusalem liquor store. Then COVID-19 hit. Many Israelis canceled Purim celebrations and by Passover, Israel was under a strict nationwide lock down. Although the wine shop was technically open under the Israeli government’s…
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Fast Forward EXCLUSIVE: Obama in letter to Rivlin: ‘I could always count on you as a source of advice and partnership’
Former President Barack Obama expressed his deep appreciation to outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin for his friendship and partnership in a farewell letter obtained by the Forward. Rivlin, 81, ended his seven-year term as president on Wednesday after more than three decades of public service. “Congratulations on a remarkable career and thanks for your friendship…
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News Eric Adams, backed by Orthodox leaders, takes NYC mayoral nomination
Eric Adams was declared the winner in the race for mayor of New York City on Tuesday after an initial count of in-person, early voting and absentee ballots. The Associated Press made the call after the New York City Board of Elections released the preliminary results of the June 22 Democratic primaries. Adams, the Brooklyn…
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Fast Forward Rep. Ilhan Omar refuses to apologize for comments on Israel, Hamas
Rep. Ilhan Omar declined to apologize on Tuesday for comments she made earlier this month listing the United States and Israel alongside Hamas and the Taliban as entities that needed to be held accountable for what she called “unthinkable atrocities.” Asked by Jake Tapper of CNN whether she regretted the comments, Omar said: “I don’t.”…
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Fast Forward A Knesset member tells American Jews not to get their hopes up on the Israel-Palestinian issue
Mossi Raz, a member of the Knesset representing the leftist Meretz Party, is frustrated as part of a new Israeli government that, in his view, won’t make progress in the coming years towards ending the occupation of the West Bank and solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “There is no agreement about the policy vis-à-vis the most…
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