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Fast Forward Golden State Warriors Star Draymond Green Plays Sniper On Israel Junket
(JTA) — Last week, NBA star Draymond Green visited Israel, where he met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin — and posed with a police rifle. “It’s not every day that I meet an all-star,” Rivlin joked at the time. He called watching Green play “a true pleasure” and hoped it was “only be the first…
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Fast Forward El Al Insists Ultra-Orthodox Men Delayed Flight By Just Minutes With Seat-Switching Drama
JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al said its flight on which haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats next to women was delayed only minutes by the required switches, not over an hour as was reported. A passenger on the June 21 flight said in a Facebook post recounting the incident that the flight…
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Opinion Criticizing Israel Is The Most Zionist Thing You Can Do
The 9th of Av, on which observant Jews commemorate the destruction of the Second Temple, has never been the most popular Zionist holiday. The ingathering of the exiles and the return of Jewish political sovereignty obviated, for many Zionists, any need to mourn the Temple. Some thought the day should be left to fall into…
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The Schmooze Joe Walsh: Baron Cohen Lured Me To An Interview With A Fake Pro-Israel Award
Former Illinois Congressman, current radio host, and relentless Tea Partier Joe Walsh posted his harrowing story of deception and false pretense on Twitter late Tuesday night. The victim: Walsh, the charming fellow behind controversies like calling Stevie Wonder “another ungrateful black multi-millionaire” for taking a knee during a national anthem. The nationally syndicated Walsh is…
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Community Israeli And Aboriginal Australian: An Odyssey Of Self-Discovery
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. Growing up in a Jewish household in suburban Sydney, Australia, Denise Langman always knew she was adopted. Her parents made no secret of the fact they first met her as a 10-month-old at the Scarba Welfare House for Children in Bondi, a Victorian…
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News Young Evangelicals Feel The Complexity Of Conflict After Traveling To Israel
One of Ryan Mills’ most powerful memories of his recent trip to Israel was the moment he gazed over a barrier wall at the Israel-Gaza border and saw what seemed like a Hamas lookout post. “It was kind of eerie,” Mills said about traveling so close to the heart of the long-simmering conflict less than…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem’s Top Historian Accepts Joint Israel-Poland Holocaust Declaration
(JTA) — Yad Vashem’s chief historian Dina Porat said Tuesday that “we can live with” much of the joint Holocaust declaration by Israel and Poland that has come in for criticism, including from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Porat in an interview with Israel’s Kan national broadcaster said the declaration should be changed but not canceled. The declaration made…
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Community To The Israeli Government, The Only Kosher Wedding Is An Orthodox One
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. Several years ago, when I was living in Tel Aviv, I attended the wedding of some Jewish friends. The bride and groom went out of their way to identify as secular Israelis rather than Jewish, and consistently struggled to understand my connection with…
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