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Fast Forward Report: Sheldon Adelson to buy US ambassador’s residence in Israel
(JTA) — Going, going, gone: The sale of the official residence of the U.S. ambassador to Israel has been finalized. Neither the buyer’s name nor the amount paid for the Herzliya property, about 8 miles from Tel Aviv in central Israel, were made public in the U.S. Embassy’s statement announcing the sale. “The buyer was…
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Food Israel’s M&H whiskey hits the US market showing ‘the beginnings of mastery’
Something’s brewing in south Tel Aviv. After years of maturation, Israel’s first whiskey distillery is making its US commercial debut. Despite the economic crunch brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, M&H Distillery started selling its freshman year whiskey in the United States in August as part of a push to distribute its liquors to a…
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Life Shabbat-observant youth soccer club forms in honor of Miami teen’s death
Sholem Benchimol was a talented soccer player with aspirations of one day becoming a professional. But although he trained diligently with a soccer club after school, when game day arrived he usually couldn’t play — because most youth soccer games take place on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. Sholem, born into an Orthodox Jewish…
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News Jewish caucus inserts anti-bias ‘guardrails’ into California ethnic studies law
On Monday, California took a major step toward becoming the first state in the country to mandate completion of an ethnic studies course as a requirement for high school graduation. Assembly Bill 331, which will require all public high schools (including charter schools) to offer the course by 2025 and will make ethnic studies a…
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Fast Forward BBC Journalist Sets Up Twitter account saying Israel is ‘racist,’ ‘white supremacist’
(JTA) — The BBC is investigating one of its journalists for an anonymous Twitter account on which he reportedly wrote anti-Israel posts. The Jewish Chronicle outed Nimesh Thaker, a longtime BBC World News journalist, as the man behind the now-private Not that bothered Twitter account. Thaker’s account tweeted that Israel is “racist” and a “white…
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Fast Forward Pompeo cancels plan to film Trump ad in Israel
(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled plans to film a campaign ad in Israel to encourage Americans living there to vote for President Donald Trump. The decision not to participate in the campaign by Republicans Overseas Israel followed the uproar over Pompeo’s prerecorded message from Jerusalem to last week’s Republican National Convention, and…
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News In Los Angeles, Israelis rally for Trump
Hundreds of Israelis and Israeli-Americans paraded by car, waving flags and honking horns, to show their support for President Donald Trump. Close to 2,000 people participated in the pro-Trump rally on Aug. 30 in Los Angeles. The rally, which started at Taft High School in Woodland Hills and ended at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Studio…
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News Emiratis say their deal with Israel will be good for Palestinians, too — eventually
There are still plenty of critics of the historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but the one place you won’t find many of them is in the UAE. People here have by and large embraced the bilateral “Abraham Accord,” which was signed Aug. 13 and consummated, symbolically at least, on Aug. 31,…
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