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Fast Forward Iran Reportedly Fires Missiles At Israel, And Israel Strikes Back In Syria
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Iranian troops reportedly fired a barrage of 20 missiles at Israel, and Israel responded by bombing Iranian military targets in Syria. The missiles were launched from Syria early Thursday morning. None of them hit Israel. Israel’s missile defense system intercepted four of them, and the rest landed in Syrian territory, according…
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Theater Why We Need Hanoch Levin Now, And Maybe In Yiddish
Going to see an intense, absurdist Hebrew play performed in Yiddish for 20 people in Manhattan’s West Village may not be the most esoteric entertainment I’ve enjoyed in my decade at the Forward (though it surely comes close), but explaining its significance presents a challenge. And yet, just like Hanoch Levin’s “The Labor of Life”…
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Fast Forward Iranian Forces In Syria Fire 20 Rockets At Israel
This is a developing story. A barrage of 20 rockets was fired Wednesday night from Syria towards Israeli military outposts in the Golan Heights. No injuries were reported. Several rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. The Israeli army is attributing the attack to members of the Quds force of the Iranian…
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Community Who Knows What’s Best For Jerusalem?
For the centuries between the destruction of the Jewish Temple and the reclamation of the holy city, Jerusalem’s role to the Jewish nation was largely symbolic. One might imagine that Zionism, and the return of Jews to their ancestral land starting in the late 19th century, would have changed this. But the early Zionists were…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Netta Barzilai Advances To Eurovision 2018 Finals
JERUSALAM (JTA) — Netta Barzilai and her high-energy song “Toy” took Israel to the finals of the 2018 edition of the Eurovision song contest. Ten of the 19 performers advanced to the finals on Tuesday night. Another 10 performers will be chosen on Thursday. The Eurovision finals will be held in Lisbon on Saturday night….
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Fast Forward Israel Revokes Work Permit Of Local Director Of Human Rights Watch
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has revoked the work permit of the local director of Human Rights Watch, and ordered him to leave the country within two weeks. Omar Shakir, the Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, is being thrown out of the county for his alleged support of boycotts of Israel, according to Human…
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Fast Forward Airstrike On Iranian Weapons Depot In Damascus Blamed On Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 15 people were killed in an airstrike on an Iranian weapons depot in Damascus. Eight members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were reported to be among the dead in the late Tuesday night attack, according to reports citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, which has attributed the attacks…
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The Schmooze ‘Y’all Country Is Nuts’: This Rapper Has Good Reasons For Never Returning To Israel
Azealia Banks says she’s never coming back to Israel. She also might be one of the country’s great defenders. Banks courts controversy wherever she goes. The dynamo 26 year-old rapper has often received fair censure for her erratic behavior (go ahead and google her tiff with Sarah Palin) since she burst onto the scene six…
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