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Fast Forward Fossil Found In Israel Suggests Human Left Africa Earlier Than We Thought
(JTA) — A fossil found in Israel indicates modern humans may have left Africa as much as 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. Scientists say that an ancient upper jawbone and associated stone tools could also mean that Homo sapiens, modern humans, arose in Africa far earlier than fossils now show, according to a study…
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Opinion Liberal Jews: Lay Off Mike Pence
This past week, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence made a historic visit to Israel. Unsurprisingly, it was largely pilloried by liberal Jews. What was the Vice President’s offense? Being a pro-Israel evangelical Christian, a perspective some Jews find suspicious. In these pages, Jane Eisner has warned of the dangers of evangelical…
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Opinion No, Israel Is Not Sliding Into Fascism
There’s a new meme afoot warning of an existential crisis threatening Israel. According to a growing number of home-bred critics, Israel is no longer a democracy. Nor, according to these people, is Israel in the category of other oppressive regimes, like Saudi Arabia or Iran. Israel has even surpassed merely racist regimes like Apartheid South…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence’s Faith Drives His Support For Israel. Does It Drive Mideast Policy?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Mike Pence moved to Washington earlier this year, he and his wife took with them a framed phrase they had for years hung over their fireplace in their Indiana home, and then over the fireplace in the governor’s mansion in that state. Now it hangs over the mantle at the vice…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Culture Minister Hails Her Country’s Oscar Failure
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s culture minister breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday that her country’s contender had failed to land an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film – despite not having watched the movie. “Foxtrot” tells the fictional story of an army checkpoint where bored Israeli troops shoot Arab passers-by after mistaking a…
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Opinion Democrats Are Turning From Israel – Because It’s Tainted By Trump
The latest Pew Research Center survey examining the partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes for unsurprising but discomfiting reading. The decades-old truism about Israel being a bipartisan issue is on life support, with a 52% gap between Republicans and Democrats on sympathy for Israel over the Palestinians. It’s the biggest…
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Fast Forward Israel Accuses U.N. Human Rights Council Of Bias Toward Palestinians
GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel accused the United Nations on Tuesday of continuous discrimination against it over its treatment of Palestinians, and called for reforms of the U.N. human rights body. The Human Rights Council’s regular examination of Israel’s record, the first since 2013, comes after President Trump recognized Jerusalem last month as the capital of…
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Opinion Mike Pence’s Love Of Israel Is Dangerous For Jews
Vice President Mike Pence may have just become the first Christian visitor to Israel not to set foot inside a church. Palestinian Christians boycotted his visit this week, still furious over the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, so Pence never saw Bethlehem, or Nazareth, or the Holy Sepulchre. Instead, like a…
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