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Fast Forward Record Number Of Jews Visit Temple Mount On Tisha B’Av, Worshippers Arrested
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A record 1,440 Jews visited the Temple Mount on Sunday to commemorate the Fast of Tisha B’Av. The total was provided by the Yeraeh organization, which facilitates Jewish visits to the Temple Mount. Last year nearly 1,300 visited the site. Some 400 visited in 2016 and 300 in 2015, the Jerusalem Post…
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Fast Forward Israeli ‘LGBT Strike’ Begins As Protesters Block Highway To Blast Surrogacy Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Protesters marched through Tel Aviv and blocked the main Ayalon highway as day-long demonstrations kicked off across the country to protest a new surrogacy law that does not include gay couples. Thousands of marchers waving rainbow flags blocked the Ayalon in central Tel Aviv. At the same time, hundreds of protesters in…
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Fast Forward Workers Across Israel Given Day Off To Protest New Anti-LGBT Surrogacy Law
There will be strikes across Israel on Sunday to protest a new law that excludes LGBT couples from state-supported surrogate pregnancies, Quartz reported. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu swooped in with a last-minute vote Wednesday, rejecting an amendment to an existing law that allowed only heterosexual married couples to qualify for government-funded surrogacy under Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Israeli Police Question Conservative Rabbi For Performing Marriage
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Conservative rabbi in Israel was awakened by police early Thursday morning and taken in for questioning over performing an illegal marriage ceremony. Rabbi Dov Dubi Haiyun, who lives in Haifa, was taken to a local police station by two officers at 5:30 a.m. for questioning after the Haifa Rabbinical Court filed…
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Fast Forward After Netanyahu Flip-Flop, Israel Continues Ban On Gay Surrogacy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset passed a surrogacy law that expands those eligible to include single women, but excludes single men and gay couples. The legislation passed Wednesday night by a vote of 59 to 52. Following the vote, hundreds of demonstrators blocked streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. LGBTQ groups called for a nationwide…
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The Schmooze Israeli Cannabis-Based Skincare Products are Here
What if we told you there was a skincare line containing cannabis? What if it couldn’t actually get you high but can still aid in certain skin diseases? Now that I have your attention — In the Holy Land of Israel there are pharmacists truly doing God’s work. The Israeli-European skincare company MGC Pharmaceuticals has…
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The Schmooze Netflix Just Ordered Even More Israeli Television from ‘Fauda’ Makers
Get your affairs in order and charge up your laptop: Netflix has ordered a series from the creators of the hit Israeli television thriller “Fauda.” This time, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff have teamed up to co-author and co-produce the show “Hit and Run” with American Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin of “Melrose Place” and…
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Opinion Why Do People Care More About Adelson’s Money Than The Lives Of Palestinians?
Over the past three weeks, 13 Birthright participants decided to walk off their Birthright trips, causing quite a stir. The walk-offs happened on three different trips, but all for the same reason. After repeatedly asking questions about the material they were being presented and then receiving whitewashed answers about Israel’s military rule over Palestinians, or…
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