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Fast Forward Miss Israel And Miss Iraq Pose Together On Instagram
(JTA) — Israel and Iraq may not have any formal diplomatic relations, but that didn’t stop two of their beauty queens from cozying up at this year’s Miss International Beauty Pageant. During the competition in Tokyo on Tuesday, Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, and Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, posed for photos on their respective Instagram accounts….
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Fast Forward New Bill Would Prevent U.S. Funding For Israel’s Detention Of Palestinian Kids
(JTA) — A Minnesota congresswoman has introduced a bill that seeks to prevent the United States from funding Israel’s military detention of Palestinian children. The legislation introduced Tuesday by Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democrat, has at least nine co-sponsors. It would require the secretary of state to certify annually that U.S. assistance to Israel has…
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Community World Jewry Must Rise Above Its Own Inhibitions About ‘Interfering’ With Israeli Politics
I get the same sense of insolence from Israeli officials when the effects of the cancellation of the Kotel Agreement on World Jewry are discussed. “What will they do to us?” I was forced to spend 24 hours with a 5-year-old who isn’t family. I explained the rules of the house several times during his…
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Fast Forward WATCH: How Jailed Palestinians Smuggled Sperm To Their Wives
A new Al Jazeera documentary details how Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails smuggled semen to their wives in the Gaza Strip in order to have children. Over 32 babies were born to wives of imprisoned men through in-vitro fertilization between 2012 and 2015, Al Jazeera reported. Palestinians imprisoned for security violations are not allowed conjugal…
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Fast Forward Federations Demands Israel Reverse ‘Divisive’ Moves On Western Wall And Conversion
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Jewish Federations of North America called on Israel to reverse its “divisive and damaging” steps to freeze an agreement on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and its support of a bill that would grant a monopoly to Orthodox authorities in Israel over conversions to Judaism. The JFNA’s board of…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Is Drafting An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Trump and his advisers have started drafting an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, officials told The New York Times. In the article published Saturday, officials said they expect to address issues that have long frustrated negotiators, such as the status of Jerusalem and West Bank settlements. The framework could “take until early next…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles Blamed ‘Foreign Jews’ For Mideast Conflict In 1986 Letter
A newly unearthed letter revealed that Prince Charles of the United Kingdom once blamed the Middle East’s problems on the “influx of foreign Jews” to Israel during the 20th century. The letter, written to a South African friend in 1986 and unearthed from a public archive by the Mail on Sunday newspaper, also urged the…
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Fast Forward Aliyah From U.S., France Down Sharply Despite Anti-Semitism Fears
(JTA) — Bucking a slump in Western immigration to Israel under its law of return for Jews, movement from Russia has increased in 2017 and more than doubled from Turkey. In total, the 23,415 immigrants who have come to Israel from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 constituted a 2 percent increase over the corresponding period…
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