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Fast Forward Israeli Lawmaker Marries Abroad In Protest Of Rabbinate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli lawmaker was married in the Seychelles in order to avoid having to involve Israel’s Chief Rabbinate in the ceremony. Ksenia Svetlova of the left-of-center Zionist Union party, who has been vocal in her support of civil marriage in Israel, and her fiancé were married on the Indian Ocean island in…
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Fast Forward Only Three Gay Israeli Couples Have Been Able To Adopt
Just three gay Israeli couples out of some 550 who asked have been able to adopt children since Israeli policy changed to allow for such adoptions in 2008, according to a Haaretz investigation . That’s compared to 1,700 heterosexual couples who adopted children in the same period. For decades, same sex Israeli couples were barred…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes Freight Rail Link To Jordan — And Beyond
Israel’s transport minister proposed on Wednesday linking its freight railway network with Jordan and Saudi Arabia and said he presented the idea to President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy last month. Under the proposal, goods could travel by rail from Israel’s Mediterranean port of Haifa through Jordan to Saudi Arabia’s Gulf port of Dammam via…
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Fast Forward Britney Spears Concert Leads Israeli Labor Party To Delay Leadership Vote
Israel’s Labor Party is not that innocent – it’s delayed its leadership election because of a Britney Spears concert slated to take place on the same day as voting. Party sources told Ha’aretz the postponement was more due to logistical concerns than to deference for the American pop star, who will take the stage at…
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Fast Forward 10 Indian ‘Lost Tribe’ Couples Remarry In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ten Indian-Jewish couples from the Bnei Menashe “lost tribe” were married in a Jewish ceremony at an absorption center in northern Israel. The group wedding remarriage ceremony on Sunday in the Kfar Hasidim community was part of the couples’ formal conversion to Judaism. The couples, who immigrated from India, ranged in age…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Reuven Rivlin Invokes Holocaust In Plea For Syrian Gas Attack Victims
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin invoked the Holocaust in a call for action to aid Syrians civilians gassed in chemical attacks. “We, as a people who survived the greatest of atrocities and rose from the ashes to be a strong and secure nation, we will do all we can to continue to aid the survivors of…
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News Jewish Voice For Peace Draws Largest Crowd Yet — Boasts Of Attacks By Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace, the controversial American Jewish group devoted to fighting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its siege of Gaza, drew some 1,000 people to its biannual meeting in Chicago last weekend—the largest crowd since the group’s founding 20 years ago. But there was something else JVP’s meeting attracted for the first…
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Fast Forward Israel Charges Eritrean Mother With Child Abuse For DIY Circumcision
An Eritrean woman is facing child abuse charges in Israel, after she performed a circumcision on her toddler son in her home in Eilat, failing to use the instruments employed by a Jewish ritual circumciser. She’s defending her actions as in keeping with her culture. “This is my son, my baby,” she testified in Israeli…
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