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Fast Forward Prince William Plans To Bring ‘Lasting Peace’ To Middle East
(JTA) — Britain’s Prince William plans to make bringing a “just and lasting peace” to the Middle East his “lifelong project,” a British tabloid reported, citing Palace source. “The visit had a profound effect on the Duke,” The Mirror reported, quoting what it called a “highly-placed Palace source.” Prince William also holds the title Duke of…
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The Schmooze Real Housewife Siggy Flicker: ‘I Will Bring Peace To The Middle East!’
Siggy Flicker, the Israeli-born matchmaker and entrepreneur, has long been our favorite Real Housewife due to her pathological inability to stop bringing up the Holocaust. We’re serious — Flicker, daughter of Holocaust survivor and renowned scholar Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, likes to make damn sure that “never forget” means never, even when she’s on Bravo, and…
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Fast Forward Key Israeli Government Minister Drops Support For Egalitarian Prayer At Kotel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government minister whose approval is needed to advance the plan for the Western Wall’s egalitarian section has dropped her support for the proposal. Miri Regev, the culture and sport minister, announced in a Facebook post late Wednesday that she would not approve the plan in her position as chairwoman of the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Military Graduates First Female Tank Commanders
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli army has its first female tank commanders. Four women completed the tank commanders course on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces announced. “We can say after a year and four months that an armored combat team can carry out operational duties in the Border Defense Array under the command of a female…
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Israel News They Walked Out On Birthright To See Palestinians — And Created Their Own Conflict
Katie Fenster says that she wasn’t planning on walking out on her Birthright Israel tour when she arrived. But during the free 10-day trip, she grew increasingly frustrated that the answers to her questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “all came from one perspective” and did not include Palestinian views. “We felt like we weren’t being…
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The Schmooze Here Are All of The Famous Places Prince William Visited in Israel
The Holy Land gained one more iota of holiness this past week. In case you missed it, (because, perhaps, you were still catching up on Meghan Markle’s wedding photos), The Duke of Cambridge Prince William visited Israel this week in what became the British Royal Family’s first official stay. Much to our dismay, the regal…
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Fast Forward Birthright Participants Publicly Walk Off Trip To Visit West Bank
Five participants on a Birthright Israel program left early Thursday in public protest of its education curriculum, which they say didn’t touch on the occupation of the West Bank. Danielle Raskin, one the participants who protested the trip, created a Twitter account to document her experience, which she had been skeptical about upon arriving, according…
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Opinion New Jewish Agency Chief Learns Quickly About Intermarriage. It’s Sensitive.
On Sunday, Isaac Herzog — outgoing leader of Israel’s opposition party, son of the sixth president of Israel, grandson of a chief rabbi — was unanimously elected chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish nonprofit in the world. It took only a few days for him to run into the buzz saw…
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