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Fast Forward Rick Jacobs And Reform Rabbis Beaten For Praying At Western Wall
A violent confrontation broke out at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Thursday, when a delegation of Reform movement leaders tried to hold a Torah-reading service at the site. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, was roughed up by security guards employed at the Western Wall, one of whom threatened to spray him…
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Fast Forward Iran, Iraq Reject Israel’s Offer Of Aid For Earthquake Victims
(JTA) JERUSALEM (www.jta.org) — Israel offered humanitarian assistance to the victims of the earthquake that killed hundreds of people in Iran and Iraq, but was turned down. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told American Jewish leaders gathered in Los Angeles Tuesday that was motivated to direct the aid by photographs of the devastation caused by…
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Israel News No Visa Waiver For Israel—Until It Treats U.S. Muslims Equally
Israel’s longtime dream of its citizens visiting America without visas seemed near fruition Monday, after an announcement from Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s Minister of Justice. But U.S. and Israeli officials on Tuesday bluntly poured cold water on Shaked’s suggestion that success was close—and part of the reason is U.S. objections to Israel’s unequal treatment of Muslim…
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Fast Forward Robert Mugabe’s Made-in-Israel ‘Landslide’ In Zimbabwe
Military leaders in Zimbabwe have proclaimed that they are in control of the the southern African nation and that longtime strongman Robert G. Mugabe is safe and under their protection, a euphemism for house arrest. Here is our report on an Israeli company credited with helping him rig the most recent election there. You could…
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Opinion Why 250 Retired Mossad And Shin Bet Agents Support A Settlement Freeze
A few years ago The Gatekeepers — a film about six former heads of Israel’s secret security service — was an international hit as it revealed the deep divide between many in the Israeli security community and the policies of the Netanyahu government on key foreign policy issues. What was only recently a film is…
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Community Northern Ireland Is A Perfect Model For Improving Jewish-Arab Relations In Israel
The field of creating a shared society in Israel, of equalizing and encouraging Jewish-Arab citizen relations, is much in debt to models and concepts developed in Northern Ireland. For the last 20 years, following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland has been a testing ground for projects of reconciliation and models of…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Elderly Israeli Aid Worker Attacked By Lion While On Safari
The chairman of an Israeli aid group was attacked by a lion while on safari in Africa, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the head of ZAKA, who was in South Africa to train search and rescue volunteers, was pounced on by a lioness as he walked next to her. “It was absolutely terrifying, for…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Bar Mitzvahs 70 Years Later — At Western Wall
More than 40 Holocaust survivors who were never able to celebrate their bar or bat mitzvahs finally did so last week — at the Western Wall. The event, coordinated by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Israel’s Office for Social Equality, was welcomed by participants who never got…
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