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Fast Forward Rabbis Hope To Ban Christmas Trees From Jerusalem Hotels
Two of Jerusalem’s chief rabbis have urged hotel owners in the holy city not to put up Christmas trees in their lobbies or to host New Year’s celebrations. “As the secular year ends we want to remind you that erecting a Christmas tree in a hotel contravenes Halacha [Jewish law] and that therefore it is…
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Community Sorry, Pundits: Non-Orthodox American Jews Are Here to Stay.
Recently I was waiting to chow down on some beef stew at a Jerusalem restaurant in the city’s iconic Mahane Yehuda market, often called “the shuk.” That’s when I saw them. Hordes of Americans in the their early 20s. The best new winter jackets. Young, robust, happy. They were chatting about how “cool” Jerusalem was….
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Fast Forward Receding Sea of Galilee May Need Real Miracle To Survive
On the shimmering Sea of Galilee, where the Christian gospels say Jesus walked on water, 150 Nigerian pilgrim sing and dance to an African beat. Reverend Samuel Tunde Ogunmodede, said he and his congregation had come to see what they had, until now, only read about in the scriptures. “We came here to seek the…
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Fast Forward ‘Blind Drunk’ Israeli Intruder Caught Holding Child Inside Arizona Home
— An Israeli man has been arrested in Arizona after he broke into a stranger’s apartment and was found holding the family’s 2-year-old child. The suspect, Oren Aharon Cohen, claimed he did not harm the toddler, whom he had drunkenly thought was “a midget.” An unnamed man in Tempe, Arizona, woke up to a find…
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Israel News Amona Settlers Who Flouted Law Get $35M Windfall From Israel
The Israeli government will spend more than $35 million to resettle and compensate residents of Amona, the West Bank outpost slated for demolition this week, as part of a deal to peacefully relocate to other parts of the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports. In order to finance the deal, the government has…
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Israel News In Israel, ‘Tis the Season for Jesus in Art
The museum considered a cornerstone of modern Israeli identity has decked the walls with Jesus-inspired works by Jewish and Israeli artists this holiday season. “Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art” (a misnomer since there are several works by non-Israeli Jews) is on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem through April. Jesus’ place in…
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Israel News JNF Fundraises on Outdated Pledge to ‘Replant’ After Fires
After fires burned more than 32,000 acres of Israeli forest and open land in late November, the Jewish National Fund promised to “Rebuild. Replant. Restore.” in a fundraising pitch to disapora Jews which raised $6 million. But according to the Times of Israel, JNF won’t be planting many trees in the forest recovery. Ecologists agree…
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Fast Forward Mossad Chief Briefs Trump Staff in Secret Meeting
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of Israel’s Mossad national intelligence agency made a secret visit to the United States to meet with members of President-elect Donald Trump staff and give a security briefing. Mossad Director Yossi Cohen briefed the Trump staff members on the Iranian nuclear deal, the Syrian civil war, terror threats and the…
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