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Opinion About That Neo-Nazi Profile: Here’s What The NYT Should Have Done
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Richard Fausset’s weekend story in The New York Times about a neo-Nazi’s “normal” life in the Ohio heartland drew a barrage of complaints for soft-pedaling his odious beliefs. The Forward writes about neo-Nazis,…
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Fast Forward Uber Service In Israel Stopped By Court Injunction
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Uber has been ordered by a Tel Aviv judge to stop running its car-sharing service in Israel. The service must be halted by Wednesday morning according to the Monday morning ruling. The judge said in his injunction that the UberDay and UberNight ride-sharing service could not continue because the drivers, who are…
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Fast Forward Israeli Leader Apologizes For Saying U.S. Jews Don’t Fight For Their Country
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely publicly apologized if statements she made about American Jewry, including that they “never send their children to fight for their country” and that “most of them are having quite convenient lives,” offended Jews in the U.S. In an interview with the Hadashot news agency, she reiterated a…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence To Address Knesset During Upcoming Israel Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will address the Knesset when he visits Israel next month. Senior officials in Jerusalem told Israel’s Channel 10 news that Pence had suggested speaking to the Knesset, and that his offer was accepted. Pence will be the first senior US official to address the Knesset since President…
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Fast Forward Turkish Jewish Leader Denies Snubbing Gay Israeli Envoy
(JTA) — Leaders of the Jewish community of Turkey denied complaints by a gay Israeli diplomat serving in Istanbul, who said they ignore him because of his sexual orientation. Ishak Ibrahim Zadeh, the president of the Jewish Community of Turkey, responded in a statement Thursday to the complaints leveled at him by Yossi Levi Sfari,…
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Fast Forward Why Is Sheldon Adelson’s Jewish Fraternity AEPI Expanding To Israel?
AEPi, known as the “Jewish” fraternity,” is expanding to Israel, and it’s not an obvious move. The group which recently chartered its third full fledged branch in Israel, is trying to establish a role for fraternities in a country where Greek Life is not part of the Israeli students’ experience and where fraternities and sororities…
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Letters Actually, The Intifadas Were Nonviolent Uprisings, Too
Dear Editor, In your interesting article on P is for Palestine, you described the First and Second Intifadas as violent uprisings. They were also nonviolent. Indeed, Palestinians have long engaged in the nonviolent protest of Zionism, from petitioning the King Crane Commission to engaging in BDS. In the First Intifada, experts in nonviolent, non-cooperation such…
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Community Burning Poultry Poop Will Not Solve Climate Change
On November 20, JTA published a piece highlighting an Israeli research group’s findings that burning the excrement produced by turkey and other poultry could be a “greener” alternative to coal power. But burning poultry excrement to combat climate change is a load of chicken poop. To fight climate change and protect our environment, we have…
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