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Fast Forward Israeli woman granted religious divorce after 14 years of trying
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli rabbinical court granted a religious divorce to a woman who was prevented from marrying for 14 years after her husband moved abroad. Vicky Tzur was granted a Jewish writ of divorce, known as a get, in Netanya on Sunday. Tzur’s husband signed a divorce agreement last week after receiving special…
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Fast Forward After dramatic rise In COVID-19 infections, Israel halts reopening plans
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is hitting an “emergency brake” on its ongoing reopening of the economy due to a sharp rise in the rate of coronavirus infections in recent days. Some 800 new COVID-19 cases were identified in the past week, as opposed to a total of about 300 infections of the coronavirus confirmed in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Parliament Women’s Committee will be led by a man
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli feminist groups responded with outrage on Monday after it was announced that a male lawmaker had been chosen to lead a parliamentary panel tasked with advancing gender equality in the country. Oded Forer, a member of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, succeeded the outgoing chair, parliament member Aida Touma-Sliman, as head…
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News This ‘antifa’ group was also Zionist, pro-Palestinian and Yiddish-speaking — and it’s trending
Read this article in Yiddish “Antifa” is in the air. It’s on President Trump’s lips. It’s trending on Twitter, but it’s not a new thing. Indeed, it has a very Jewish history. It’s an ideology that was born in order to oppose Hitler. “Antifa” is short for “anti-fascist.” It’s so Jewish that one of the…
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Fast Forward Slow down annexation Kushner tells Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a conference call with Jared Kushner and other top White House officials to discuss slowing down West Bank annexation plans, an Israeli TV station reported. Channel 13 in its report Monday cited an unnamed senior Israeli source that the Trump administration wants to “downplay the enthusiasm”…
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Fast Forward Cannabis residue discovered on ancient Israelite altar
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The ancient Israelites burned cannabis on their altars during religious rituals, researchers have found. Israeli archaeologists found a mixture of cannabis and animal dung in the residue found on a 2,700-year-old altar discovered in a temple at Tel Arad in the Negev. It is the first evidence of the use of a…
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Fast Forward Israeli police shoot, kill autistic Palestinian man they thought had a gun
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Border Police shot and killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem that they believed to be armed but was not. One of the officers was placed under house arrest and the second was released from police custody and placed under restrictive conditions. Israel’s defense minister, Benny Gantz, has apologized for the…
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Fast Forward Commercial flights to Israel will not resume until at least mid-July
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Commercial flights will not resume to Israel until mid-July at the earliest, according to the head of Ben Gurion Airport. Shmuel Zakaim, the airport’s managing director, told the Israeli news website Ynet that even when the flights eventually restart, the number of departing planes will remain low for now. “Social distancing regulations at…
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