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Fast Forward Belgium Snubs Israeli Teens Whose Parents Were Killed in Jewish Museum Rampage
— Belgium has turned down a request for financial assistance from the daughters of an Israeli couple killed in an attack a year ago on the Jewish Museum in Brussels. Shira and Ayelet Riva were 15 and 17 at the time of the attack in May 2015. Mira and Emmanuel Riva were on vacation and…
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Fast Forward Israeli Muslims More Devout Than Jews — but Less Than Others in Middle East
Israeli Muslims are more devout than the country’s Jews, Christians and Druze, but less so than other Muslims in the region, according to Pew research released Wednesday. About 68% of Muslims living in the Jewish state say religion is “very important” in their lives, a figure that is lower than in all countries in the…
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News ‘Lost Tribe King’ from Togo Embraced by Orthodox Rabbis in Israel
A Togolese man, calling himself a king and descendant of an ancient Lost Tribe, has gained prominent Orthodox allies in Israel and even held a meeting with the Minister of Religious Affairs to request his people be recognized as a Lost Tribe of Israel. Francois A. Ayi, who describes himself as belonging to “one of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Launches Talks With Avigdor Liberman — Raises Pressure on Center Left
Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman in an effort to recruit him into Israel’s government, and political sources said the prime minister agreed to his demand to be appointed defense minister. Netanyahu, who won a fourth term last year, governs by a majority of one in the 120-member Knesset, making his…
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Fast Forward 1,500 Jordanians Get Jobs in Israel Hotels — African Immigrants Face Ax
(JTA) — In a first for Jordan-Israel relations, a small group of Jordanian citizens recently gained employment in Israel’s hospitality sector as part of a pilot project negotiated by the two countries. The Washington Post Monday that the program, which “very quietly” launched six months ago, currently permits 700 Jordanians to cross the border to work in…
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Fast Forward Nasty Dispute Over Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Roils Bucolic British College Town of Oxford
For a city that has made headlines recently for its anti-Semitism problem, Oxford has a pretty laid back Jewish scene. On a recent Friday night, dozens of recognizably Jewish families and students wearing kippahs were enjoying the afternoon sun as they strolled to one of Oxford’s two synagogues. They converged at a modern building that…
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News Will Jewish Billionaires Heed Sheldon Adelson’s Call To Put Money Behind Donald Trump?
Quickly assuming the mantle of Donald Trump’s chief Jewish advocate, Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson has reached out to Republican Jewish leaders asking them to follow his lead and contribute to Trump’s presidential campaign. “Like many of you, I do not agree with him on every issue,” Adelson wrote board members of the Republican Jewish…
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Opinion Why We Flouted Hillel Rules To Hold Nakba Event at Brown University
On May 11, more than 70 students crowded into the Hillel meeting room at Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design for a screening of three short films produced by the Israeli NGO Zochrot, and for a discussion about the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion), the politicization of memory, and the…
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