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Fast Forward Arab Sues After Israeli Police Plant Gun While Filming Reality TV Show
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An eastern Jerusalem resident is suing the Israeli police for planting a gun in his home while filming an episode of a reality television show. “Jerusalem District,” which purports to show the police in real-life situations and is produced by Israel’s public broadcaster, followed a team of officers late last year as…
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Fast Forward Amid Party Tensions Over Israel, Top House Democrat Leads 41 Reps On Trip There
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Steny Hoyer, the Democratic House majority leader who is known for his close ties to the pro-Israel community, is leading a larger than usual tour of the country after a season of Israel tensions in the caucus. Hoyer’s office on Aug. 4 announced that he will take 41 Democratic members of the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Workers Arrested For Rape Of 7-Year-Old Jewish Girl From West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinian men were arrested on suspicion of raping a 7-year-old girl from a West Bank settlement. The men, who are residents of the Palestinian village of Qibya, work in the settlement where the girl lives, the Kan public broadcaster first reported Tuesday night. The arrests come more than a month after…
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Fast Forward Police Recommend Indicting Israeli Health Minister For Aiding Alleged Pedophile
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Police recommended indicting Israeli lawmaker Yaakov Litzman for bribery and aiding an alleged pedophile. Litzman, who heads the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and serves as deputy health minister, could be charged with fraud and breach of trust for helping alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer including preventing her…
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Opinion Letter | No, AOC’s Support For IfNotNow Isn’t ‘Fringe.’ Most American Jews Oppose The Occupation.
In a recent piece titled “Why Is AOC Tokenizing A Fringe Jewish Group?” Seffi Kogen, the Global Director of Young Leadership for the American Jewish Committee, argued that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez committed the “cardinal sin of progressivism” when she voiced support for IfNotNow, the anti-occupation group; the group is not “representative of American Jews,” wrote…
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Fast Forward Druze Diplomat Says He Was Mistreated At Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s ambassador to Panama, who is Druze, criticized security at Ben Gurion Airport, alleging that he and his family were delayed because they come from an Arab village in northern Israel. Reda Mansour described the incident that happened on Saturday in a Facebook post. He said the security officer at the entrance…
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The Schmooze Jennifer Lopez And Alex Rodriguez Are In Israel, Having The Time Of Their Lives
Roger Waters wants to stop you from performing in Israel. Lana Del Rey and Lorde cancelled their planned tour stops after hearing out BDS activists. On the other hand, after their Tel Aviv performance, Jon Bon Jovi told his Jewish bandmate David Bryan that his father would have been proud. And floating above it all…
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The Schmooze Bon Jovi Took Time In Israel To Meet With Superfan Battling Cancer
Real rockstars perform mitzvot. Two days before performing a mammoth show in Tel Aviv with his band this month, singer Jon Bon Jovi took the time to meet an Israeli woman going through breast cancer. Netta Sadan, a 30-something mother of three children living in the city of Rishon LeZion, reached out to Facebook in…
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