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Fast Forward 6 Things To Watch For At AIPAC
(JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference is coming up, running Sunday through Tuesday. AIPAC’s byword is bipartisanship and, as we reported this week, that’s a hard sell in the increasingly polarized Trump era. Still, AIPAC remains the preeminent pro-Israel lobby and its conferences have been a reliable weathervane of where…
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Community Should Israeli Politicians Be Meeting With The European Far Right?
The Israeli government and the Knesset are formulating approaches to address the rise of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party and the new Polish law regarding the Holocaust. In this effort, there is a need to address the growing gap between official Israeli policy and the actions of Israeli right-wing politicians. A recent Mitvim Institute study,…
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Film & TV ‘7 Days In Entebbe’ Is About How Leftists Should Butt Out Of The Jews’ Business
They started to make movies about the 1976 Israeli special forces raid on Uganda’s Entebbe airport even before the bodies were cold. One movie aired before the end of that year. Two more came in 1977. Chuck Norris’s gloss on the story came in 1986, complete with a motorcycle-borne rocket launcher. The battle at Entebbe,…
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Fast Forward Trump Peace Plan Could Recognize Palestinian State
The Trump administration’s proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal could include recognizing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday. The report, citing “knowledgeable Arab diplomatic sources,” claimed that the United States was also proposing that the Old City of Jerusalem would be placed under “international protection.”…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Delays Demolition Of West Bank Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court delayed by three months the scheduled demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost built completely or in part on Palestinian-owned land. The court on Wednesday agreed to a government request to postpone the demolition in the Netiv Haavot outpost while it prepares temporary housing for the 15 families…
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Fast Forward Polish Delegation Comes To Israel To Discuss Controversial Holocaust Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Polish delegation arrived in Israel to come to an understanding between the two countries on the controversial Holocaust law. The delegation will meet on Thursday with a team headed by the Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Yuval Rotem. Both delegations are made up of historians, journalists, lawyers and diplomats, the…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Ultra-Orthodox Elementary School Accused Of Physical, Sexual Abuse
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A lawsuit filed against a venerated haredi Orthodox elementary school in Jerusalem alleges physical and sexual abuse within the institution. The lawsuit was filed last week in Jerusalem Magistrates Court against Talmud Torah Kaminetz by a former student who is now an adult. He was assisted in preparing and filing the lawsuit…
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Community My Synagogue Turned Against Me For Supporting J Street
We have read and seen much recently about the way our society has been divided into warring tribes unwilling to hear each other. This was brought home to me recently and very painfully by an incident within my own tribe — indeed within my own intimate spiritual community. When my wife Shulamit and I arrived…
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