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Fast Forward Russia Claims Israel Misled It Over Downing Of Plane Over Syria
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Air Force provided Russia with misleading information on the location of its airstrikes on targets in Syria, preventing a Russian surveillance plane in the area from moving to a safe zone, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced. The findings of the Russian Defense Ministry about the accidental downing last week of a Russian…
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Fast Forward Petition Demands Punishment For Prof Who Wouldn’t Write Recommendation For Israel Gig
(JTA) — Fifty-eight organizations called on the University of Michigan to sanction professors who implement academic boycotts of Israel. The letter, sent Friday to university president Mark Schlissel, was signed by Jewish, Israel advocacy and political organizations and organized by the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit seeking to combat campus anti-Semitism. It referred to an incident…
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Opinion How Trump Turned American Jews — And Their Money — Away From Israel
A rabbi at a typical Conservative synagogue in a typical American suburb in the New York area recently told me an enlightening story. He got the job about a year ago, coming to the U.S. from Israel, and in his first Shabbat sermon, he waxed poetic about the importance of Israel to the American Jewish…
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Fast Forward Israeli City’s Chief Rabbi: Caterers Aren’t Kosher If Ethiopians Make The Food
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Moshe Havlin, the chief rabbi of the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, reportedly said he would withdraw kosher certification from a local catering company if Ethiopian women continued to prepare the food there, unless they could prove their Jewishness. Under Orthodox Jewish law, certain foods which were completely cooked by…
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Community Trump’s Aid Cuts Could End Lifesaving Medical Care For Palestinian Children
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian Jewish publication. While receiving her dialysis treatment at East Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria hospital last week, nine-year-old Amani Hababa broke into laughter. Two rednosed therapeutic clowns were singling her out for special attention, babbling nonsense verses, playing guitar and singing “Amani is the sweetest.” Six…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Ethiopian Jews Will Be Brought To Israel, Leaving 7,000 Still There
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has decided to bring some 1,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura who have children living in Israel to the country. There are some 8,000 Falash Mura in Ethiopia awaiting permission to immigrate to Israel, most of whom have some family members in Israel. The Falash Mura claim…
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Israel News David Keyes Was A ‘Disgrace’ To Women For Years. Who Let Him Get Away With It?
Everybody in the pro-Israel world, it seems, knew David Keyes. They knew him as an advocate for human rights around the world, as an articulate defender of the state of Israel, as a provocateur skilled at coming up with viral stunts guaranteed to get media attention. But many in that world, it appears, knew of…
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Community Ari Fuld Was Not A ‘Settler’ — He Was An Innocent Victim Of Terror
On Sunday September 16, 2018, Ari Fuld was murdered in a shopping mall. Fuld, a 45-year-old loving husband, father of four, writer, teacher and former paratrooper, was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old terrorist. Fuld was an incredible man with a generous heart, as many have attested since his tragic murder. Ari Fuld was also…
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