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Fast Forward WATCH: Rockets Fired From Gaza Intercepted By Iron Dome
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel were intercepted over the southern town of Sderot by the Iron Dome anti-missile system. A third rocket fired Wednesday night landed in an empty field in the Eshkol region, also in southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said. There were no reports of…
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Opinion For Palestinians, Jerusalem Will Never Only Be The Capital Of Israel
Donald Trump’s announcement last week declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel left my father in tears. He was sitting hunched over his heavily used black laptop, scanning through the unedited sentences of his unpublished novel. My family was gathered around the only source of heat in the room, unaware of his daunting stream of thoughts,…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Largest Company Laying Off Half Its Israeli Workers
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will unveil a restructuring plan on Thursday that will include laying off more than half its Israeli workforce, the Calcalist financial news website said. Teva’s plan includes closing its research and development center in the coastal city of Netanya, selling its logistics center in Shoham and cutting…
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The Schmooze This All-Women Israeli Hip-Hop Group Dancing To Psalms Will Make Your Day
Israelis. Hip hop. Orthodox female singers. Psalms. Implied political implications. This music video, a new setting of Psalm 102:14 by Julliard-educated religious musician Franciska in collaboration with the Halelu hip-hop troupe, has it all. Come for the amazing thing one of the dancers does with her ponytail, stay for the spiritually catchy all-female psalm rendition,…
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Fast Forward Hamas Hanukkah Plot To Kidnap Israelis Thwarted
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security services thwarted a Hamas kidnapping plot set to take place during Hanukkah. A Hamas cell from a Palestinian village near Nablus in the West Bank planned to abduct an Israeli soldier or a settler from a bus stop near Nablus, the Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, said in a…
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Community Lay Off Linda Sarsour
On December 6th, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, where I work, honored Linda Sarsour with the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Award, alongside Rabbi Ellen Lippmann and the National Domestic Workers Alliance’s We Dream In Black. And we did so with unabashed pride. The honor JFREJ has bestowed is called the “Risk Taker”…
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Fast Forward Knesset Votes To Close Detention Facility For Illegal African Migrants
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Knesset voted to close the Holot detention facility, which houses illegal migrants mostly from Africa. The legislation, which passed 71-41 late Monday night, also allows the government to offer asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea a choice of being locked up in Saharonim prison or to agree to voluntarily be deported…
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Opinion Israel’s Persecution Of Breaking The Silence Exposes Deep Corruption
Over the past few weeks, a storm has raged through Israel. I am a member of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli soldiers who testify about what they did in the occupied territories. Our organization is once again under attack in an attempt to undermine our credibility through smearing our name and paving the…
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