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Fast Forward GOD-TV, an evangelical Christian channel, loses right to broadcast in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — GOD-TV, an evangelical Christian cable television channel, has lost its license to air in Israel, two months after launching to a chorus of concern about its mission. Israel’s Council for Cable and Satellite Broadcasting announced Sunday that the channel would be taken off the air because it did not disclose when applying…
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Fast Forward Cyberattack disrupts Israel Philharmonic Orchestra virtual concert
A free virtual concert featuring the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) was disrupted on Sunday by a suspected cyber attack, preventing tens of thousands of viewers worldwide from watching and participating in the event. Hosted by actress Helen Mirren and featuring some of Israel’s world-renowned soloists — including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman and Yefim Bronfman —…
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Fast Forward Prank tricks thousands into thinking ‘Back to the Future’ actors are Israeli couple from 1950s
(JTA) — Last week, thousands of Jews in Israel and beyond responded to a plea for help in identifying a couple pictured in a yellowing photograph from 1955. “Everyone, I need help. I found this picture on a Tel Aviv street,” Ariel Plavnik, a 43-year-old tourism salesperson from Kfar Saba, Israel, wrote in Hebrew and…
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Fast Forward House Democrats overwhelmingly sign letter warning about annexation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Most House Democrats have made it clear: Israel should desist from annexing parts of the West Bank. As of Thursday, a letter to Israeli leaders warning of annexation’s perils had garnered 191 of the 233 members of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Among Jewish Democrats, 23 of 25…
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Fast Forward Senior UK lawmaker praises article tying George Floyd killing to Israel
(JTA) — A prominent British lawmaker for the Labour Party praised and retweeted an article that claimed falsely that Israeli secret services trained U.S. police in knee chokes. Rebecca Long-Bailey, who ran for the party’s leadership in April and now is its point person for education issues, wrote Thursday on Twitter, “Maxine Peake is an…
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Fast Forward As his feud with Trump erupts, John Bolton goes from pro-Israel hero to ‘John who?’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In 2015, the Zionist Organization of America gave John Bolton a standing ovation when he said he wanted to be U.S. president. In 2018, the ZOA gave him its Defender of Israel Award. This week, Bolton is about as far away from the presidency as he’s been in his life, and the…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem removes pride banner from US embassy citing signage bylaws
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem municipality removed an LGBT Pride banner hanging outside of the U.S. Embassy’s Palestinian Affairs Unit located in the center of the city. The municipality said the banner, which was removed Tuesday, violated municipal signage bylaws and required city approval, according to reports. It was rehung that evening following talks between…
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Food In isolation, I made ‘terroir breads’ from the land
The Forward welcomes Erez Komarovsky as its newest contributing writer. Read more about Erez here. For the past two-and-a-half months, we have been quarantined in my hillside home in Mattat, in the north of Israel, just a few kilometers from the Lebanon border. We are isolated from the world, like everyone else– no cooking workshops…
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