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Fast Forward 4 Killed By Israeli Troops As Fresh Gaza Protests Erupt
Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others on Friday with live fire or tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza border, medics said, while Israel said militants had attacked its forces with guns and grenades. Organizers linked the protests to annual “Jerusalem Day” events in Iran, which like Gaza’s dominant Hamas…
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Opinion Why Israelis Especially Shouldn’t Lie About Gaza
I spend a lot of time online. Probably too much. But, lately, I’ve seen something I haven’t seen before: Israel advocates, people I normally trust, tweeting things that are misrepresented or out of context. When I contacted them, some said, “Well, it’s close enough, and the anti-Israel discourse is so much worse.” I responded that…
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Fast Forward Anthony Bourdain, TV Foodie With Jewish Roots, Killed Self At 61
Anthony Bourdain, the host of CNN’s “Parts Unknown” whose mother was a secular Jew, killed himself at age 61 in a French hotel room Friday, authorities said. Bourdain had reportedly been in Strasbourg, France working on an upcoming episode of his food and travel show, which was in its 11th season. Although Bourdain’s mother was…
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Fast Forward Spain’s Third-Largest City Declares Itself ‘Free Of Israeli Apartheid’
(JTA) — Following a major Spanish city’s vote to boycott Israel, the leader of Spain’s third-largest party called the Jewish state a “criminal country” during an interview aired by public television broadcaster. Pablo Iglesias Turrión, leader of the Podemos far-left party, said this in an interview earlier this week on RTVE. “We need to act…
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Food When Anthony Bourdain Journeyed To Israel
Anthony Bourdain, whose mother was a secular Jew, died of an apparent suicide on June 8, 2018. Here’s how the Forward covered an episode of his food show in the Holy Land. I have a confession — a somewhat unacceptable one for a food editor — I do not enjoy food television. Thank you very…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Rudy Giuliani Gets Down In Israel
Rudy Giuliani is mixing business with pleasure on his tip to Israel. Guiliani, the former New York mayor and one of President Trump’s personal lawyers, was in Israel this week for a business conference, but on Wednesday, he found some time to let loose. At a restaurant in Mahane Yehuda, an open-air marketplace in the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Children’s TV Star Questioned In Connection To Cocaine Ring
Beloved Israeli children’s television star Yuval Shem Tov, also known as “Yuval Hamebulbal” (Yuval the Befuddled), confessed to purchasing cocaine from a drug ring, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Three people were arrested two weeks ago at an apartment in Tel Aviv as part of a police sting in connection to widespread distribution of…
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The Schmooze Sit Down, Shut Up, And Watch Rudy Giuliani Partying In Jerusalem
I don’t care if you think Rudy Giuliani is the last sane man in America or a baldheaded minion of Satan: there is something for everyone to enjoy in this clip of the former Mayor of New York City partying at a Jerusalem restaurant. In a clip posted to Twitter by Yael Friedson, a writer…
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