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Fast Forward Top Polish Diplomat Vows To Remove ‘Polish Police’ Text From Yad Vashem
(JTA) — A top Polish diplomat vowed to “intervene” in having text removed from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel that speaks of “Polish police” under Nazi occupation. Jan Dziedziczak, the deputy director of the Polish Foreign Ministry, complained about the text in an interview on Thursday while on a visit in Israel, Radio…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbinate Refuses To Seat Orthodox Women For Jewish Law Exam
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of four Orthodox Jewish women has threatened to take the Chief Rabbinate to Israel’s highest court after their request to take an official rabbinate exam in family purity laws was rejected with no explanation. The exam was held Thursday; the women were not allowed to sit for it. A rabbinate…
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Fast Forward Do Palestinian Terrorists Get As Much Money As Netanyahu Claims?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Washington Post says it has debunked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the Palestinian Authority pays $350 million a year to Palestinian terrorists and their families. The amount could be up to two-thirds smaller, according to the Post in its Fact Checker feature. Netanyahu used the $350 million figure a…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Supreme Court Stops Government Plan To Deport African Refugees
JERUSALEM (JTA) –The Supreme Court of Israel has issued a temporary restraining order on a government plan to deport African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan to a third country in Africa. The court issued its decision on Thursday in response to a petition signed by 120 refugees and asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan….
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The Schmooze Milo Yiannopoulos Uses Western Wall As Prop For Anti-Immigration Stunt
Alt-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos staged a photo-shoot for social media this week in which he put a letter in a mock Western Wall, asking for “speedy deportations.” The 33 year-old who has said of sexual relationships between 13 year-olds and adults, “these things do happen, perfectly consensually,” wore a kippah emblazoned with the acronym “ICE,”…
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Fast Forward Record Number Of Americans Sympathize More With Israelis Than Palestinians
A record number of Americans sympathize more with Israelis than with Palestinians, a recent Gallup poll has found. Sixty-four percent of respondents said that they had more sympathy with Israelis, tying the previous highs recorded in 1991 and 2013 — though the American population has grown since that time. A survey last year found the…
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Fast Forward Roadside Bombs Targeting Israeli Soldiers Detonated On Gaza Border
JERUSALEM (JTA)) — Two roadside bombs were detonated on the northern Gaza border, which the Israeli military said were directed at a border patrol in the area. The Israel Defense Forces are also examining whether a shoulder-launched anti-tank missile, or RPG, was fired at the troops during the Thursday morning incident. No Israeli soldiers were…
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Opinion Palestinians May Finally Join Jerusalem Elections. The US and Israel Should Help Them
The key to unlocking the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process may be a healthy dose of democracy. To wit, something interesting is brewing in East Jerusalem. Palestinian Jerusalemites are neither Israeli citizens nor Palestinian Authority residents. They have remained separate — in many ways, by choice, since Israel captured East Jerusalem and unified the city in…
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