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Fast Forward Bennett heaps praise on AIPAC ahead of meeting with Biden
On his first trip to Washington as Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett met with leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a group that has been criticized in recent years for backing the Israeli government’s right-wing policies. The get-together raised some eyebrows. While it’s common for an Israeli leader to meet with pro-Israel and…
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News How Biden and Bennett will push the restart button on U.S.-Israel relations
Despite their deep differences on major diplomatic questions, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are hoping to set a new tone for U.S.-Israeli relations at the White House Thursday, their first meeting since each took office. They disagree on returning to the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and China, but…
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News The advice comedian Mel Brooks gave to his great nephew Todd Kaminsky, now running for Nassau County DA
Eight years ago, Todd Kaminsky went cross country seeking some advice from his great uncle, the comedian Mel Brooks. Then an assistant U.S. attorney in New York’s Eastern District, Kaminsky was considering running for elected office and wanted to know what Brooks, the younger brother of his grandfather Lenny Kaminsky, thought of the idea. Brooks,…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Democrat suggests the Black-Jewish alliance will save his party from the far-left
Ritchie Torres, a first-term Democratic congressman from New York, suggested on Tuesday that the Black-Jewish alliance could save his party from being overtaken by the far-left progressive movement in the 2022 midterm elections. Torres, who describes himself as the embodiment of a pro-Israel progressive, pointed to the recent election in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District where…
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News How will Biden’s Afghanistan retreat impact Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
President Joe Biden sought to assure the American people on Monday that he made the right decision to withdraw from war-torn Afghanistan after 20 years, despite the rapid Taliban takeover. But as the worrisome images of the way Americans were evacuated from Kabul circulated on social media, criticism of the administration’s approach and execution intensified….
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Culture The ‘Fauda’ follow-up is a messy mystery that will probably be a runaway hit
“Who would you, Lior Raz, like to have as your love interest in our new series?” Avi Issacharoff, the co-creator of “Hit & Run,” probably asked one day early on in the show’s development. Raz’s response, one imagines, was probably: “A member of the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv. And make her considerably younger….
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Opinion Watching Team Israel’s Olympic run — and loss — taught me about Jewish resilience
In 2017, I was a high school junior who usually struggled to wake up on time for school. And yet, at 5:30 am one morning in early March, I sat wide-eyed on my family room couch, watching a baseball game. It was the opening game of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, the foremost international baseball…
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News In close Ohio special election, Jewish vote could determine outcome
If you are Jewish and live in Cleveland’s Beachwood and University Heights neighborhoods, you have almost certainly been made aware that your vote could be the determining factor in a close and critical House primary on Tuesday. Jews in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District have been flooded with campaign mailers. They can’t look at their phones…
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