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Life Remembering My Father, Elie Wiesel, On The Eve of Rosh Hashanah
This time of year was a difficult time for my father. Did each September — or more precisely, each month of Elul in the Hebrew calendar – did each one get progressively more difficult for him as he got older? Or did I just get more attuned to his feelings as I got older? Perhaps…
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Opinion A Major Jewish Philanthropist Just Published A Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians
A far-right faction within Israel’s Likud-led governing coalition has endorsed a plan for Israel to annex the entire West Bank and encourage the Palestinian residents to immigrate to neighboring Arab countries. The plan would allow Palestinians who voluntarily gave up all “national aspirations” to remain, granting them limited municipal self-government, but without Israeli citizenship or…
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Fast Forward U.S. Opens First Military Base In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United States opened its first official military base on Israeli soil. The base started operating Monday following a ceremony at the end of last week to inaugurate the facility that included Israeli and American military personnel. It will operate independently from within an Israeli military base in southern Israel that houses an…
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Fast Forward The Most Popular Baby Name In Israel Is Muhammad
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the third straight Jewish year, the most popular baby names in Israel were Tamar and Muhammad. The Population and Immigration Authority of Israel’s Interior Ministry released the figures ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Joining Muhammad among the top 10 names for boys were Joseph, David, Daniel, Uri, Omer, Eitan,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: McMaster ‘Not Hostile’ To Israel
The campaign to paint National Security Advisor Gen. H. R. McMaster as being anti-Israel suffered a blow Monday after the American general got a seal of approval from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “There were no signs of hostility,” Netanyahu when asked by an Israeli reporter whether he sensed McMaster was hostile. “He was attentive.”…
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Fast Forward Trump Insists Giving ‘Absolute Go’ To Mideast Peace
President Trump said on Monday he believed “we really have a chance” to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump has faced deep skepticism at home and abroad over the chances for him to achieve any quick breakthrough, not least because his administration has yet to articulate a strategy for restarting a moribund peace…
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Fast Forward IDF Announces New Operation: A War On Smoking
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has opened a new war – against smoking. The military announced Sunday that on November 1 that it will stop selling cigarettes on 65 bases across the country and that it will prohibit smoking in public areas of the bases and will provide limited smoking areas. The IDF’s…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash With Police In Protest Against IDF Conscription
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Haredi Orthodox protesters demonstrated in Jerusalem against conscription in the Israel Defense Forces. The protesters clashed with police on Sunday during the demonstrations in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim, leading to the arrest of at least 8 protesters. At least two teenage protesters were injured in the melee, Ynet…
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