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Community Palestinian School Demolitions Are Destroying Israel’s Future
My parents had always taught me that education was a Jewish value. As a child, their insistence worked a little too well — I could never sleep the night before the first day of school. My notebooks were already in my backpack, and I was so excited to learn. This summer, I met Palestinian mothers…
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Culture How A Tel Aviv Café Is Helping The Needy With Free Challah
A Tel Aviv coffee shop is offering free challahs for those who need them in a novel way — by leaving challahs on café tables for an hour each Friday afternoon. Coffee Station at 152 Ibn Gabirol Street, the street Israelis pronounce as Even Gvirol, will have challahs on tables from 3:30-4:30 p.m each Friday,…
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Fast Forward Messianic Jews Can’t Marry In Israel As Jews Because They Are Considered Christians
An Israeli couple calling themselves Messianic Jews was barred from marrying in a Jewish religious ceremony in Israel because they are considered Christians, a rabbinical court ruled. It was the first time an Israeli rabbinical court was forced to grapple with the issue of the status of Jews who believe in Jesus as the Messiah,…
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Yiddish World Why More Yiddish Radio Broadcasts Would Help Israel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The decision by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, as part of its transformation into a new agency—the Israel Broadcasting Corporation— to drastically reduce its daily Yiddish radio programming to a weekly half-hour broadcast greatly disappointed Yiddish listeners around the world. None of us, however, were surprised. The writing…
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Fast Forward Israeli Hospital Operates On Palestinian With Rare ‘Tree Man’ Disease
A Palestinian man with a rare disorder that led his hand to blow up and develop cysts making it resemble a tree has finally gotten the growths removed, thanks to an ambitious operation performed at Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. “This is a very rare case that has no documentation whatsoever in the medical…
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Fast Forward Israel Launches $20M Program To Teach Children Better English
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will spend nearly $20 million on a new program to improve the English skills of its schoolchildren. At a news conference Wednesday announcing the Give Me Five program, Education Minister Naftali Bennett said that not knowing how to speak English well is hurting Israelis in business and in life. The plan…
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Fast Forward Israel Backs Down On Revoking Al Jazeera Reporter’s Press Credentials — For Now
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Government Press Office said it will defer the revocation of the press card of a senior reporter for the Al Jazeera network based in Jerusalem. The move to revoke the press card of reporter Elias Karram, accused of aiding the Palestinian “resistance” to the State of Israel, was seen as the…
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Fast Forward Gorka Lashes Out At Liberal Jews As ‘Basically Anti-Israel’
Ousted White House adviser Sebastian Gorka lashed out at liberal American Jews, saying they “have basically become anti-Israel.” Gorka claimed he had come under attack because of his pro-Israel stance — not his long association with far right wing Hungarian group that was allied to the Nazis. “I’ve been a great friend of Israel and…
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