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Fast Forward Israel Can’t Protect All Jews, Diaspora Affairs Minister Admits
Amid rising fear in American Jewish communities due to the increased visibility of neo-Nazis and other anti-Semitic groups, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs minister admitted in an interview published Sunday that the Jewish state could only go so far to keep Jews safe. “We view ourselves as having a certain degree of responsibility for every Jew in…
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Fast Forward Trump, Netanyahu To Meet At United Nations Next Month
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet on September 17 in New Jersey, an Israeli newspaper is reporting. It will be the third face-to-face meeting between the leaders this year. The meeting will take place while Netanyahu is in New York for the opening of the 72nd…
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Israel News Israel Goes Cuckoo For Coco As Conan O’Brien Tours Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Conan O’Brien, in Israel for the first time to film a special episode of his TBS talk show, has quickly won local fans. Since arriving in the country Friday, O’Brien has been hanging out in Tel Aviv. Widely shared posts on Hebrew social media show him chumming it up with Israelis…
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Fast Forward 8-Year-Old Israeli Girl Finds ‘2,000-Year-Old Shekel Coin’
Update, 3:00 p.m.: It was later determined that the coin is actually a souvenir from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and is not 2,000 years old. (JTA) — An 8-year-old Israeli girl found a rare coin from the Second Temple period. The half-shekel coin dates from a time when it was used to pay a…
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Fast Forward 8-Year-Old Girl’s ‘Ancient’ Coin Is Actually Israel Museum Souvenir
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A coin that was believed to be a rare artifact from the Second Temple period found by an 8-year-old girl in a West Bank settlement is actually a souvenir from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Israeli and international media, including the Forward, reported on the find of a half-shekel coin by 8-year-old…
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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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