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Fast Forward Israel Expects Turkey Reconciliation Despite Coup Attempt
Israel reacted tersely to a thwarted coup in Turkey, saying it expected a new reconciliation deal between the two regional powers following a six-year rift to be implemented as planned. Violence erupted in Turkey late on Friday after the start of the Jewish Sabbath, when most government business officially takes a break. This allowed Prime…
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Community ZOA President: We Are Not Conservative, But We Are Usually Right
Daniella Greenbaum (“Why the AIPAC Haters Have it Wrong,” 07/12/16) makes several unsubstantiated, inaccurate allegations about ZOA. ZOA is a 120-year old rational-centrist pro-Israel group. Being the only major group to have accurately predicted that the Oslo Accords and the Gaza withdrawal — and that dealing with Arafat and Abbas would never lead to peace,…
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News ‘Always Smiling’ and Dedicated to Israel, Soldier From New Jersey Killed in Grenade Blast
Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen from New Jersey killed in a grenade explosion in the Golan Heights on Sunday, was a “wonderful, funny, sweet kid who was always smiling,” according to a family friend. David Curwin, who lives in Efrat, said that Rindenow “was very proud that he came back here to serve in…
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Fast Forward Lone Soldier From New Jersey Killed in Israel Grenade Blast
JERUSALEM — An American from New Jersey serving in the Israeli military was killed along with another IDF soldier when a grenade one of the soldiers was carrying exploded. The American-born lone soldier killed in the Sunday morning accident has been namedby the IDF as Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow, 20, a lone soldier from New Jersey who…
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News Turkish Prime Minister Says Attempted Coup Underway, Calls for Calm
A group within Turkey’s military has attempted to overthrow the government and security forces have been called in to “do what is necessary,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday. “Some people illegally undertook an illegal action outside of the chain of command,” Yildirim said in comments broadcast by private channel NTV. “The government elected…
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Opinion Can You Spew Sexism and Homophobia and Still Be Rabbi for ‘Most Moral Army in the World’?
Another sexism scandal involving a male authority figure erupted in Israel on Monday, when it emerged that the army’s choice of new spiritual leader had previously implied that it was permissible for IDF soldiers to rape non-Jewish women during wartime. Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim is on his second round of scrutiny for this suggestion, which…
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Opinion How Donald Trump’s Republican Party Veered to Right of Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel
Several weeks ago, the Republican Jewish Coalition unleashed an online advertising campaign with three dramatic, 30-second ads asserting that radical, anti-Israel extremists had taken over the Democratic Party. One ad focused on Cornel West, the firebrand who called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal, another on the Arab-American activist James Zogby, and the…
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The Schmooze Scott Disick Visits Israel, Finds ‘Hashem is Everywhere’
A year ago, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West were the talk of Israel when they baptized their daughter, North, in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Today, Scott Disick, Kourtney Kardashian’s Jewish ex-boyfriend, was the one looking for a religious experience in the city. The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star…
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