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Food How to Taste 300 Kosher Wines in a Day
Time to pick a designated driver: More than 300 kosher wines and spirits will be on hand for sampling at this year’s Kosher Food & Wine Experience, the annual extravaganza hosted by distributor Royal Wine. Among wines making their debut at KWFE 2017, February 13 at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, are Terra di Seta Assai,…
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News Following France, Knesset Considers ‘Facebook Bill’ To Fight Incitement
Israel’s Knesset is getting closer to passing its “Facebook bill,” legislation that when implemented would allow the police to seek court orders for the removal of content that it deems amounting to incitement to violence. “[Facebook’s] policy of removing [content] is very, very, very strict and the bar is set very high,” a spokesman for…
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Fast Forward Wanted: A Few Good (Female) Spies for Israel
No one keeps secrets better than the Mossad, Israel’s famed secret service. But the spy agency is being very open about its hunt for a new crop of female agents. “Wanted: Women of strength,” the ads announce in bold font splashed across a woman’s half-obscured visage. “We don’t care what you’ve done, we care about…
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Fast Forward Israeli Officer Dies of Wounds Suffered in 2014 Gaza War
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Defense Forces officer who was critically wounded during the 2014 Gaza War died of his wounds. Maj. Hagai Ben-Ari of Moshav Nov, a village on the Golan Heights, died Tuesday, more than two years after what Israel dubbed Operation Protective Edge. Ben-Ari, 31, a captain in the Paratroopers Brigade, suffered…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Smashes Record With 18-Hour Flight From Israel
Aloha, Sheldon! Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson set a record for the longest flight to depart from Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport when he took his private jet on a nearly 18-hour jaunt to Hawaii, Haaretz reported. The Republican donor’s Airbus A340 went north and west from the Holy Land on Monday, crossing over Europe to…
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Fast Forward ‘Biblical’ Sheep Shipped To Holy Land — But Are They Really From Israel?
Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, a Canadian Jewish farming couple, had a different sort of aliyah in mind when they loaded more than 100 sheep on a cargo plane for Israel, animals they said hail from Biblical times. “You know that Israel is built on Jewish people returning. Now you have a case of an animal…
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Fast Forward Can Israel’s ‘Passenger Drone’ Get Off Ground?
After 15 years of development, an Israeli tech firm is optimistic it will finally get its passenger-carrying drone off the ground and into the market by 2020. The Cormorant, billed as a flying car, is capable of transporting 1,000 pounds of weight and traveling at 115 miles per hour. It completed its first automated solo…
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Fast Forward Israel Awaits Verdict in Soldier’s Shooting of Helpless Palestinian
Last March, Sergeant Elor Azaria, a 19-year-old Israeli army medic deployed to the occupied West Bank, shot and killed a Palestinian assailant as he lay wounded and motionless on the ground after attempting to stab an Israeli soldier. The shooting, and the tense moments leading up to it, were captured on video by a Palestinian…
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