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Culture You Really Need To Read This Terrific Interview With George Steiner
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 Israel Plans Global Push To Track Jewish Marriage — And Divorce
An Israeli government ministry plans to keep track of Jews who marry around the world with an international database of Jewish marriage and divorce, the Jerusalem Post reported. The database is meant to stop Jews from marrying another partner if they are already married, but religious freedom advocates warn that such a list could be…
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Fast Forward West Bank Attack On Israeli Soldier Is Foiled
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An attack against an Israeli soldier near a West Bank checkpoint was prevented. The alleged assailant was wielding a screwdriver as he approached a soldier at the Shomron Regional Brigade junction, also known as the Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus in the northern West Bank. Other solders subdued the alleged assailant and detained…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Promises To ‘Consider’ Embassy Move To Jerusalem At AIPAC
Promising President Trump’s full support for Israel but offering few specifics, Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday the new administration is “giving serious consideration” to moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Pence, speaking to nearly 20,000 members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference for the lobby’s annual policy conference, sought to assure the…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Tells AIPAC Trump Is Defender Of Israel And The Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Vice President Mike Pence delivered a fierce defense to AIPAC of President Donald Trump as a defender of Israel and the Jewish people. “He’s a man of action,” Pence said of Trump, closing out the first day Sunday of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. “For the first time…
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Fast Forward WATCH: IfNotNow Protesters At AIPAC Conference
Activists from the IfNotNow group entered a conference held by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday, demanding that American Jews stop supporting what they say are Israeli abuses toward the Palestinians. Security at the AIPAC conference, the largest pro-Israel conference of the year, was extremely strict and according to IfNotNow members, the four activists…
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Fast Forward Iran Imposes Sanctions On 15 US Companies Over Support For Israel
(JTA) — Iran has imposed sanctions on 15 American companies over their alleged support for Israel. The announcement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry accuses the United States of “propping up the Zionist regime, terrorists and suppressing civilians in the region,” the state agency IRNA reported. The announcement comes two days after the United States issued…
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Fast Forward Israelis Cheer On Single Mom Lawmaker Raising Child With Gay Co-Parent
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israelis welcomed Knesset lawmaker Merav Ben Ari’s announcement that she gave birth to a baby girl, whom she has said she will raise with the baby’s gay father. Ben-Ari made the happy announcement on Facebook Sunday, the first day of the Knesset’s spring break. Alongside a photo of her holding Ariel, her first…
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