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Culture He May Be Our Greatest Jewish Thinker — But What Does He Think About Jewish Thought?
Editor’s note: George Steiner is generally regarded as one of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. He has taught at Oxford University, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, among others, and his books include the classic of criticism, “Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky,” “The Death Of Tragedy” and “In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards The Redefinition…
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Fast Forward House Dems Urge Trump To Preserve ‘Two States’
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The overwhelming majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump to reaffirm the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as U.S. policy. With 187 of 193 voting Democrats signing, the letter to Trump released Friday is a pointed reminder of how divided the parties remain on how…
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Fast Forward Israeli News Publisher Caught Promising Bibi Better Coverage
Arnon Mozes, publisher of the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, was taped promising to bash Benjamin Netanuyahu’s political rivals in the paper in exchange for a business advantage, in the latest twist of a police anti-corruption probe into the Israeli prime minister. According to Haaretz, Mozes pledged to attack Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and his Jewish…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Youth Suspected Of Hurling Firebombs
(JTA) – Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian youth they said was hurling firebombs at Israelis and injured three alleged accomplices. The incident occurred Thursday night in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Ma’an. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that “three suspects exited a vehicle adjacent to the community of…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘Concerns’ About Settlements Remain As U.S.-Israel Talks Continue
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After a lengthy session of U.S.-Israel talks, Israeli negotiators said they would take into account Trump administration “concerns” about settlement building, a sign that the issue continues to dog relations between the countries. The joint statement released Thursday night after four days of talks between top officials said the issues are “exceptionally…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Said To Reject U.S. Proposal On West Bank Settlements
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly blew off a demand by President Donald Trump to freeze settlement building in isolated areas of the West Bank as a condition for continuing construction in larger blocs and east Jerusalem. “The talks have not been completed, but there is progress and we will hear about it when we…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Rasmea Odeh Loses U.S. Citizenship Over Terror Conviction
(JTA) — A Palestinian woman who had not told U.S. immigration authorities that she had been imprisoned in Israel for two terror attacks accepted a plea bargain that forces her to leave the country. Rasmea Odeh, 69, would not spend time in U.S. prison or detention but would lose her U.S. citizenship, according to a Thursday statement by the Rasmea Defense…
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Fast Forward Senate Confirms David Friedman As Envoy To Israel In Mostly Party-Line Vote
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate confirmed David Friedman, a confidante of President Donald Trump who outraged some Jewish groups with his broadsides against liberal Jews, as ambassador to Israel. The 52-46 vote on Thursday afternoon hewed mostly to party lines. Only two Democrats — Sens. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Joe Manchin of…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Nets draft Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf players back-to-back, forming first NBA’s first Jewish tandem in decades
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Yiddish דאָס אײַנפּאַקן אַ טאָרבע פֿאַרן לויפֿן אין שוצקעלער האָט עפּעס דערוועקט אין מירPacking a bag before running to the shelter hit a nerve in me
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Opinion Pro-Palestinian protesters are suddenly supporting Iran. They might want to talk to some Palestinians
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Culture How Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani target Jewish voters
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