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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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Fast Forward Kushner Tells Netanyahu Trump Is Committed To Peace, But Shares Few Details
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – President Trump remains committed and optimistic about achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, his son-in-law and senior adviser told the sides on Thursday during his first visit to the region since last month’s surge of violence. But there was little to suggest any breakthrough or significant progress toward ending a decades-old conflict is imminent as…
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Fast Forward Knesset Members Allowed To Visit Temple Mount Next Week
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Knesset members will be allowed to visit the Temple Mount one day next week following months of unrest at the holy site. The trial visit was coordinated between the Israel Police and the Prime Minister’s Office, The Times of Israel reported. The visit was announced Wednesday, hours after lawmakers Yehuda Glick of…
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Fast Forward Reform Leaders: Netanyahu Must Denounce Kotel Body Searches Of Female Rabbis
(JTA) — Leaders of the Reform movement in the United States called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “issue a swift and clear denunciation” of the demeaning body searches of four female rabbinic students at the Western Wall. The students from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, on Wednesday were asked to lift…
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Fast Forward Lebanese Beauty Queen Stripped Of Crown Over Israel Visit
Lebanese bomb-shell Amanda Hanna is losing her beauty queen title after authorities in the country discovered that she visited Israel using a foreign passport. “After communicating our decision with Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism, he decided that Hanna should be stripped of her title because her visit to Israel violates our country’s laws,” the group running…
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Opinion When It Comes To The Middle East, Liberals Need To Be Trump’s Biggest Cheerleaders
On Wednesday night, Jared Kushner, along with Jason Greenblatt and deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, arrived in Israel ostensibly seeking what President Trump has taken to calling “the ultimate deal” between Israel and Palestine. Liberals may be tempted to mock these efforts at best and to hope they will fail at worst. But these…
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Fast Forward Kushner Insists ‘Very Committed’ To Peace As Israel Talks Begin
President Trump remains “very committed” to achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of talks on Thursday. But there was little to suggest any breakthrough or significant progress towards ending a decades-old conflict is imminent as Kushner began a day of separate meetings…
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Opinion As a Religious Zionist, My First Encounter With A Palestinian Changed My Life
In a well-lit basement room in the East Jerusalem neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah, a group of kids and adults are standing in a circle tossing a ball. This group is made up of seventh graders — Muslim, Christian and Jewish — all residents of Jerusalem; their parents and counselors are also present. I am in the…
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