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Fast Forward Kathie Lee Gifford Wrote A Book About Israel With A Messianic Rabbi
(JTA) — What does Kathie Lee Gifford do when she isn’t on air next to Hoda Kotb? Apparently, she visits Israel quite often. In fact, the “Today” co-host is publishing a book co-written with a messianic Jewish rabbi on her visits to the Holy Land. Gifford, who has said that she’d like to become a…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders: U.S. ‘Complicit’ In Israeli Occupation
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders said the United States is “complicit” in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. “But that is not to say … that Israel is the only party at fault,” Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Friday evening. Sanders…
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Fast Forward The Secret Israeli Preschool In Suburban D.C.
(JTA) – It’s the most picturesque of American scenes: a single-family home on a cul de sac in a suburb of the nation’s capital, a small American flag stuck in a wooden gate that leads to a backyard with a deck. An orange SUV is parked in the driveway. But walk through the door and…
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The Schmooze Conan O’Brien Says ‘Israelis Are The Best Looking People’
The last thing Israel needs is another over-confident white man who burns easily bopping about, trying to fix things. We don’t even know what to do with the Jared Kushner we have. Nevertheless, Conan O’Brien, entertainment’s most irrationally successful ginger, took it upon himself to visit Israel earlier this summer. The episode drops tonight during…
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Fast Forward Apparently, Benjamin Netanyahu Has A Thing For Masks
Benjamin Netanyahu has attended two showings this week of a theater performance that requires audience members to wear creepy masks, Page Six reported. The Israeli prime minister, in town for the UN General Assembly, seems to have a predilection for immersive theater productions put on by the McKittrick Hotel, which include the show “Sleep No…
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Community This Year, We Must Address The Moral Crisis Of Our Jewish Generation
In early September as the new school year began for thousands of Jewish high school students, IfNotNow, a movement focused on ending the American Jewish community’s support for the occupation and a movement that I help lead, launched the #YouNeverToldMe campaign. As a generation, we were betrayed by the institutional Jewish world which told us…
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Fast Forward Bibi Slams Iran Deal At UN: ‘Fix It Or Nix It’
The Iran nuclear deal should be changed to eliminate provisions removing restrictions on Tehran’s atomic program over time or it should be canceled, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. “Change it, or cancel it. Fix it, or nix it,” Netanyahu said in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly annual gathering of world…
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Fast Forward 7 Jewish Senators Push Netanyahu To Act On Western Wall Prayer
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders is among seven Jewish-American senators who sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to implement an agreement to expand an egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall. Netanyahu’s Cabinet put a hold in June on the deal passed in 2016, drawing the ire of American Jewish leaders. In the…
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