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Fast Forward Islamic State Says It Fired Rockets at Israel From Sinai Peninsula
JERUSALEM — The Islamic State claimed responsibility for firing two missiles from the Sinai Peninsula at an Israeli border crossing, and that the Israeli military retaliated with airstrikes. The long-range Grad rockets fired Monday were aimed at a crossing on the Israel-Egypt border, but landed in Egypt. The Islamic State has claimed in the past…
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Israel News In Tel Aviv, a Neighborhood Shaped Like a Menorah
Though the Hanukkah story culminates in Jerusalem with the rededication of the Jewish temple, it’s in hedonistic Tel Aviv where one can find the biggest homage to the winter holiday — in the form of an unusual street grid. The streets of the south Tel Aviv neighborhood Neve Sha’anan are laid out around a grid…
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Fast Forward Norway Town Will Boycott West Bank Settlement Products
– The city council of Tromso in Norway adopted a resolution calling on its residents to boycott products made in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The resolution was adopted Wednesday, according to the municipality’s website. Seventeen members voted against the resolution, which stated that “the municipal council encourages Tromso Municipality’s residents to boycott…
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Community What Moses And The First Menorah Can Teach Us About Fighting Terror
On the way home from the funeral, we discussed Amalek. It was Purim time, 1996. Israel was living through one of its worst spates of terrorism in years. Two students, Matt Eisenfeld and Sarah Duker, boarded a bus together and were killed, along with 24 other people. Matt was my friend. He and Sara were…
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Opinion Lessons from the Israeli Left: Civil Society Is No Substitute for Smart Electoral Politics
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, many Americans disappointed by the results of the election are looking to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as a panacea to combat hate and preserve the values they hold dear. The ADL has benefitted from a marked uptick in donations. Writing in Ha’aretz on “How to…
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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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