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Fast Forward Bird Sent To Israel From Gaza Wearing A Harness Holding Flammable Material
JERUSALEM (JTA) — First kites and balloons, and now birds are being used to by Palestinians in Gaza to set fires in southern Israel. Israel Nature and Parks Authority personnel on Monday afternoon found a common kestrel, a member of the falcon family, hanging from a burned tree wearing a harness to which was attached…
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Fast Forward Waving White Flags, Syrian Crowd Turned Away By Israel
Dozens of Syrians approached the Israeli frontier on the Golan Heights on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary from a Russian-backed Syrian army offensive, before turning back after a warning from Israeli forces. Tens of thousands of Syrians have arrived near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the past…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman’s Husband To Perform in Tel Aviv — Will She Join Him?
Well well well well well well well. via GIPHY All things must eventually wash up on the shores of Zion, and Natalie Portman’s French ballerina trophy husband is certainly not an exception. Benjamin Millepied and the dance troupe he founded will travel to Israel this Fall to give three performances in the Tel Aviv neighborhood…
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Slideshows Slideshow: A Look Inside The Kakuma Refugee Camp
Getting to the Kakuma Refugee Camp isn’t easy. Once your visit is approved, you board a special UN commissioned flight from Nairobi to the hot and arid desert where the refugee camp is located. I was invited to Kakuma by IsraAID, an Israel-based humanitarian aid agency that responds to emergency crises and engages in international…
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Community A Look Inside The Kakuma Refugee Camp
Last month, I had the rare opportunity to document life inside Kakuma Refugee Camp, located in Northwestern Kenya. This United Nations Refugee Agency camp opened in 1992 to accommodate the 23,000 “Lost Boys of Sudan.” During that year, the Second Sudanese Civil War gripped the continent, causing mass displacement across the region. When Kakuma was…
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Opinion What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Really Thinks About Israel
On Friday night, PBS aired an interview with the upstart socialist candidate for New York’s 14th congressional district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The interview was half an hour long, and touched on many of the candidate’s policy issues like free college and free healthcare. But to Monday morning Twitter, it was Ocasio-Cortez’s comments on Israel that were…
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Opinion Have Your Say: Is It Ok To Walk Off Of A Birthright Trip?
Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline. In recent weeks, Birthright participants affiliated with both IfNotNow and Peace Now have staged walkouts from their trips, in protest of Birthright’s policy of…
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Community Birthright Has An Agenda — And That’s Perfectly Okay
This summer, for the first time, I staffed a Birthright trip — and it was incredible. Ten action-packed days without more than a minute to breathe. But it wasn’t the itinerary that made the trip so amazing; it was the people. My bus was filled with forty young professionals with very little prior knowledge of…
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