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Fast Forward U.N. Forum On Palestinians Is Anti-Israel, World Jewish Congress Protests
(JTA) — The World Jewish Congress protested a United Nations forum on the Palestinians, describing it as “anti-Israel.” “This week, a United Nations body will once again vilify the State of Israel,” the group said Thursday, the first day of a two-day forum at the U.N. headquarters in New York titled “Ending the Occupation.” The…
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Fast Forward Mossad Wants In On Newest Technology, Launches Fund For High-tech Startups
Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, is launching an investment fund to support high-tech startups and capitalize on emerging technology, Haaretz reported reported earlier this month. The fund, called Libertad, will invest in firms in exchange for the rights to use the products and technology it develops. The agency plans to start investing later this month,…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Leaders Warn Netanyahu Of ‘Crisis Of Faith’ On Western Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three AIPAC leaders reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we have lost the incentive to act for Israel” and of a “crisis of faith” among American Jews in the aftermath of the freezing of the Western Wall agreement. Outgoing president Lillian Pinkus, her successor, Mort Fridman, and managing director Richard Fishman…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Downplays Importance Of Israel’s Western Wall Flip-Flop
(JTA) — Jonathan Sacks, the previous chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, said the existence of an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall means liberal Jews were not defeated by the suspension of a plan to expand that area. Sacks, who is an Orthodox rabbi, discussed the controversy around the Western Wall at a meeting…
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Fast Forward Iran Uses Star Of David As Target For Missile Test
(JTA) — Iran used the Star of David as a target for a ballistic missile test, Israel told the United Nations. The Israeli diplomatic mission on Wednesday distributed to members of the U.N.Security Council satellite images of the site set up during a test carried out last year. “These images prove beyond any doubt that Iran…
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Fast Forward EXPLAINED: 5 Things About Israel’s Controversial Conversion Bill
(JTA) — Israeli politicians and Jewish leaders are fighting again over an age-old question: Who counts as a Jew? And who gets to decide? This week, Israel’s government inflamed simmering tensions over Jewish conversion when a Cabinet committee advanced a bill that would further empower the country’s haredi Orthodox Chief Rabbinate. The measure declares that…
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Culture In “Shooting Holy Land” Josef Koudelka And Gilad Baram Explore The Aesthetics Of The Israeli Wall
Before the late screening of “Shooting Holy Land” (initially released in 2015) at Anthology Film Archive in the East Village – added by popular demand after a sold out first showing – Gilad Baram, the Israeli director of the film, and septuagenarian Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka, the film’s subject, gave a brief introduction. Koudelka was spritely…
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Fast Forward Spanish Court Strikes Another City’s Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution
(JTA) — For the second time in less than a year, a high court in Spain scrapped the adoption of a boycott against Israel by a municipality. The Superior Tribunal of Justice of Madrid in its decision last week affirmed a lower court ruling in January against the resolution last year endorsing the boycott by…
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