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Fast Forward Jeb Bush’s Son Urges Support for Israel on Visit
— The son of ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush led a group of Texas businessmen on a three-day visit to Israel, then wrote that “America has no better ally and no truer friend in the world.” George P. Bush, the land commissioner in Texas, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his trip last week to discuss Texas-Israel…
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Fast Forward Contentious Hebron Jewish Settlement Gets First Green Light To Expand in Decade
The Israeli government has approved the planning of new housing for Jews in the predominantly Arab West Bank city of Hebron. COGAT, the Israel Defense Forces Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit, which coordinates civilian issues in the West Bank, confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that permission was granted for planning…
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Fast Forward Honduras Deal With Israel Seen Bolstering Fight Against Organized Crime
RIO DE JANEIRO — Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced he will send to Congress a signed agreement with Israel that will enhance his country’s armed forces in an unprecedented way in order to fight organized crime. “I am sending to Congress a very important agreement with the State of Israel, which is pivotal to…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back After Gaza Rocket Hits Sderot
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and tanks responded by shelling the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the army and police said. The rocket caused no injuries or damage in Sderot, where it landed in a residential area,…
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Opinion How Jewish Persecution Complex Warped Our Reaction to the Rio Olympics
The Israeli national team at the Rio Olympics made headlines twice for reasons related not to their athletic accomplishments, but rather to politics. The first incident occurred when the Lebanese team prevented the Israeli athletes from boarding the same bus as them for transportation to the opening ceremonies. The second occurred when Egypt’s Islam El…
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Opinion Believe It or Not, the Rio Olympics Were Great for the Jews
Over the past few decades, international organizations have done their utmost to exclude Israel from the family of nations. One such worldwide association, the Olympics, ostensibly dedicated to fair play, comradeship and the promotion of world peace, has an even longer anti-Semitic pedigree. Back in 1936, it awarded prime time exposure to the Nazi regime…
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The Schmooze Helping Natalie Portman Sound Like a Real Israeli for ‘Love and Darkness’
(JTA) — While making the film “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Natalie Portman had to put her palm in front of her mouth, repeat Hebrew words and feel how the air hit her skin. If Portman felt her breath, it meant she was saying the words in an Israeli accent — or something close…
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Fast Forward Is Dutch Aliyah Killing Its Jewish Institutions?
AMSTERDAM — The effects of the Holocaust in the Netherlands and Jewish emigration have made Dutch Jewry’s communal institutions unsustainable, a key figure of that community said. Michel Waterman, the director of the Crescas institute for Jewish culture, made the unusual statement during an interview published Tuesday in Het Parool daily ahead of his retirement…
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