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Israel News Is Israel Doing Enough To Care For The Mental Health Of ‘Lone Soldiers’?
JERUSALEM — The call to attend the funeral went out on social media. Alex Sasaki, a 27-year-old IDF combat soldier from Laguna Beach, California, was to buried in Jerusalem on March 28 after an apparent drug overdose. His unit was serving on the border with Gaza as tensions were ratcheting up between Israel and Hamas…
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Fast Forward Columbia Professor Says Israel Is Almost Identical To Islamic State
(JTA) — A Columbia University professor wrote on Facebook that the only difference between Israel and the Islamic State is that Zionist columnists defend the Jewish state’s “terrorist cause.” Hamid Dabashi, a professor in the university’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, wrote this last week, triggering an outcry by pro-Israel students….
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The Schmooze Vampire Weekend’s New Album References The Creation Of Israel
Imagine a rock album about falafel and delis, white supremacy and early modern Zionism. Whether you will it or not, it’s no dream. On their upcoming album, alt-rock group Vampire Weekend continues to quietly bring intensely Jewish themes into mainstream music. “Father of the Bride,” the band’s fourth album, to be released on May 3,…
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Fast Forward Brazil President Calls Nazis Leftists After Israeli Holocaust Museum Tour
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said “there is no doubt” that Nazism was a leftist movement, just after visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum. Bolsonaro’s remarks directly contradicted information on the museum’s website saying Germany’s Nazi movement rose out of right-wing radical groups responding to the rise of communism. In…
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Fast Forward Trump: Watch Your Back Bibi, I’m Coming For Your Job
President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States is doing just fine — so perhaps he could run for prime minister of Israel. At the National Republican Congressional Committee annual spring dinner, Trump spoke about supporting Israel’s security and recognizing the Golan Heights as part of the country. “To support Israel’s security, just last week…
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Opinion Why Netanyahu Is Going To Win. Again.
Why would any sane person vote for Benjamin Netanyahu? It’s a question one hears a lot, particularly from dovish American Jews. Bibi is corrupt, they say. He is racist. He’s been in power too long. He’s ruined relations with the U.S. and turned Israel into a partisan issue. He has transformed the wonderful old Israel…
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Fast Forward Israel Partially Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plan to partially decriminalize marijuana possession went into effect in Israel. Under the plan, which went into effect at midnight on Monday, use and possession of marijuana in small amounts in personal homes is not an offense. Possession in public of amounts for personal use will result in a fine of…
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Israel News Israeli Students Design The Tiniest Of Tiny Toys — For Kinder Eggs
Correction, April 5, 11:44 a.m.: [An earlier version of this story stated that Bezalel Academy of Art and Design was part of Hebrew University. In fact, it is a separate entity located on the Hebrew University campus.] In my family, there used to be an ongoing dispute between me and my kids about the Kinder…
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