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Fast Forward It’s Krembo Time in Israel!
In Israel, temperatures are dropping and people are plugging in electric heaters to warm chilly apartments. In other words, its Krembo time. The Mallomar-like Krembo is a foil wrapped two-inch tower of vanilla or mocha marshmallow cream coated with chocolate atop a biscuit. It makes its first appearance after the High Holy Days and remains…
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Fast Forward For 4 Cousins, Love Survives the Holocaust After All
Fania Blakay and her brother Gennadi Band thought their Polish family perished in the Holocaust. So did Henia Moskowitz and Rywka Patchnik. Turns out all four Polish cousins were wrong — and they held a joyous reunion to prove it, JTA reported. “I am deeply moved and very happy,” Blakay said, according to a statement…
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Fast Forward IfNotNow Rallies Millenials by Confronting Donald Trump — and ‘Israel-at-Any-Cost’ Jews
“This Jew says no to white nationalism,” one sign read. “Silence is akin to consent,” another said, quoting the Talmud. A third displayed a lyric from a Yiddish song: “We will outlive them.” The signs, along with chants like “Donald Trump, it’s your fault; Stephen Bannon, oy gevalt!” were not only directed against Bannon, the…
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Opinion Don’t Just Move One U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem — Move Two of Them
The seat of the Israeli government — its legislature, executive offices and courts — is comfortably nestled along the stone-lined streets and hillsides of West Jerusalem, but for more than a decade, no foreign embassy has been based there. Ever since Costa Rica left in August 2006, followed quickly by El Salvador, the world has…
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Fast Forward What Will Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State Mean for Jewish Agenda?
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, an energy company large enough to have its own foreign policy. It is a policy, however, that doesn’t always align with the priorities of Jewish and pro-Israel groups. Oil companies have clashed in the past with the…
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News Aleppo’s Last Jewish Family Flees for Israel Amid Devastation
Jewish history in the Syrian city of Aleppo all but ended in October, when an Israeli businessman and moderate rebels helped smuggle out of the country the last Jewish family in town — but not everybody escaped. The Halabis had lived in Syria through more than four years of internecine civil war, shuttering themselves in…
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Fast Forward Right-Winger Naftali Bennett Gets Extra Security as Amona Outpost Evacuation Looms
JERUSALEM — Naftali Bennett, the head of Israel’s pro-settler Jewish Home party, is being provided extra security in the wake of threats as the evacuation of the Amona outpost nears. Threatening text messages republished by Hebrew-language Israeli news website Walla accuse Bennett of “betrayal” and “selling out the settlers” with the evacuation set to occur by…
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News BDS Backer Loses Bid to Lead Britain’s Jewish Students — Gets Just 12% of Vote
Eran Cohen, the supporter of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel who wanted to lead Britain’s Union of Jewish Students, was routed in his bid for the presidency of the body, coming in a distant third to two other candidates, according to results announced on Sunday that showed him garnering under 12% of votes. The…
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