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Fast Forward Call waiting: Likud official tweets Netanyahu’s phone number to Biden
Three weeks into the Biden administration, the lack of a phone call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is gaining attention. Secretary of State Tony Blinken played down the notion that Biden — who has already spoken to 10 heads of state — is snubbing the Israeli premier. In an interview…
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News Netanyahu’s rivals to meet top Jewish leaders in private Zooms
The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations is planning to host Zoom calls in the coming weeks where the leading candidates for prime minister in Israel’s March 23 elections will speak directly to the top leaders of the group’s 53 member organizations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to accept the invitation, a…
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News Bernie Sanders vs. Queens Jewish community: A race to watch in the City Council’s special election
Voters in the New York City’s 24th Council District are heading to the polls on Tuesday to elect their representative for the remainder of the term of former Councilman Rory Lancman, who took a job in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration. With eight candidates running, the race is a test of the city’s new rank-choice election…
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Israel News Why Netanyahu was not on Biden’s first round of calls as president
It took Netanyahu only a couple of hours to tweet his congratulation to President Joe Biden after he declared victory against President Donald Trump on Nov. 7. It took another 10 days for Netanyahu to arrange a phone call with Biden. As of Monday, 13 days after Biden entered the Oval Office, a call between…
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News In Israel, some Netanyahu detractors are refusing vaccinations
TEL AVIV — Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination program has become the envy of the world, reaching a third of the population in just over a month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already trying to leverage that narrative in his campaign ahead of the March 23 election, Israel’s fourth in two years. But behind that curtain of…
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News Sheldon Adelson leaves behind a Jewish philanthropic empire. What’s next?
Love him or hate him, Sheldon Adelson’s impact on the Jewish nonprofit world cannot be overstated. Adelson, the casino magnate who died Tuesday at 87 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is best known as the top political contributor in the country, donating more than $218 million to Republican campaigns in the 2020 election cycle alone. But he…
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Fast Forward Queens deputy borough president steps down after tweets about Israel, Ilhan Omar
A top Queens official named to his post withdrew Monday after tweets surfaced in which he criticized Israeli policies and lobbying. Michael Hurwitz, who is Jewish, was tapped as a deputy borough president for Donovan Richards, but Richards’ office tweeted that “for professional and personal reasons,” he would not take his position. For professional and…
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Israel News Growing numbers of Yom Kippur War veterans are seeking PTSD treatment
The Israeli television series “Valley of Tears,” now available on HBO, tells the story of the Yom Kippur War from the perspective of Israelis who fought it, and it’s prompting a national conversation about one of the most devastating chapters in the country’s history – both among those too young to remember it and the…
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