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Opinion I Was Forced To Lift My Skirt To Pray At The Kotel
It was Wednesday morning of finals week. The thought of waking up at 5:30 AM was not the most thrilling of thoughts; but, Rosh Chodesh aligns with the cycle of the moon, not with the cycle of my school year. I had committed to welcoming in Elul at the Kotel with my Hebrew Union College-Jewish…
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Fast Forward Israel Firm Starts Food Delivery To Iceland — Using Drones
(JTA) — An Israeli technology firm started in Iceland what it says is the world’s first commercial food delivery route based entirely on unmanned aerial vehicles. Flytrex, an Israel-based firm that was founded by Yariv Bash and Amit Regev, partnered in the Scandinavian country with the on-demand goods service AHA to provide the service in…
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Fast Forward Medical Marijuana Companies Use Israel As Testing Ground
Israel is becoming a center of American medical marijuana production and research, as U.S. companies move their grow houses and R&D operations to the Jewish State. It is much easier to conduct medical trials on drugs made from cannabis in Israel than it is in the U.S., where companies must spend several years getting approval…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Spurned Macaque Makes Friends With Chicken At Israeli Zoo
Niv, a four-year-old Indonesian black macaque, has made friends with a chicken that wandered into her cage at an Israeli zoo. The monkey has been caressing and holding the chicken for a week. “It seems that Niv, who is four years old and has reached the age of sexual maturity, has difficulty finding a partner,”…
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Fast Forward 120 People Named Herzl Pose For Photo In Israel
(JTA) — Ahead of the 120th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress that Theodor Herzl organized in Switzerland, 120 men and women named after him gathered in Herzliya to celebrate his legacy. On August 29, 1897 Herzl, a journalist who was born in what is today Hungary, convened in the city of Basel some 200…
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Opinion Netanyahu Is Abandoning American Jews — Because He Can
Several days after the First Zionist Congress concluded in 1897, Theodor Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, assessed its effect in his diary. “At Basel, I founded the Jewish State,” he wrote, referring to the Swiss site of the meeting. “If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps…
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Israel News ‘New Likudniks’ Want To Push Netanyahu’s Party To The Center—Will They Succeed?
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under investigation for corruption, has often claimed that his left-wing political enemies are out to get him. Now his supporters have alleged that leftists are even infiltrating his right-wing Likud party. Last week, David Bitan, the chairman of the governing coalition and an unswerving Netanyahu ally,…
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Fast Forward Singers Pull Out Of Berlin Music Festival Over Israeli Embassy Funding
(JTA) — Several artists pulled out of a popular Berlin music festival because the Israeli Embassy in Germany provided a financial contribution. The three-day Berlin Pop-Kultur festival, which runs through Friday, accepted 500 euros, or nearly $600, from the Israeli diplomatic mission. Israeli artists are among the 70 acts scheduled to perform at the festival….
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