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News West Bank Wineries to Europe: ‘Label This!’
Sitting in the warehouse of his winery in the Israeli- occupied West Bank, Amichai Lourie picked up a bottle of 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon and pointed to a label where the name of his settlement, “Shiloh,” was scrawled in white ink. The European Union has said that it will label goods from exclusively Jewish West Bank…
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Fast Forward Top Court To Decide on Cremation of Transgender Activist
The Supreme Court of Israel will hear the appeal brought by the haredi Orthodox family of a transgender activist over the activist’s cremation. The hearing in the case of May Peleg, 31, is scheduled for Tuesday, according to the Campaign for May Peleg’s Memory. On Sunday, Peleg’s haredi Orthodox mother asked the Supreme Court to…
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Opinion Why No Facebook Filter in Solidarity With Israeli Victims?
(JTA) – “Show your support for the people of Paris by temporarily updating your profile picture with this new template we created,” read the Facebook-sponsored text promoted not 24 hours after the terror attacks in Paris. The social media giant invited users to overlay their profile picture with the blue, white and red colors of…
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Fast Forward 20-Year-Old Israeli Woman Stabbed to Death as Violence Spirals
An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinian attackers were killed in a series of incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, police said, as an eight-week-old wave of bloodshed showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed its…
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Fast Forward German Supermarket Pulls Golan Heights Wines in Labeling Fight
Germany’s famous KaDeWe department store in Berlin has taken wines made in the Golan Heights off its shelves to comply with a European Union labeling regulation A spokesperson for KaDeWe, Petra Fladenhofer, told German media on Friday that the store was removing eight wines from stock, due to the recent decision by the European Union…
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Fast Forward Ezra Schwartz Mourned With Israeli Flag and New England Patriots Jersey
(JTA) — His best friend remembered him starting up a children’s game on their senior school trip. His teacher retold the time he made Hebrew jokes on a whiteboard during class. His rabbi recalled him committing to study the entire Bible this year. His parents wrote of him reciting whole paragraphs of “Harry Potter” by…
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Fast Forward Teenage Palestinian Girl Run Down After Trying To Stab Settlers
Three Palestinians carrying out knife attacks on Israelis were killed in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police and the military said, as an eight-week-old wave of violence showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed the United States, whose Secretary…
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Fast Forward Israeli Killed in Mali Hotel Bloodbath
An Israeli was reportedly among the 19 people killed when Islamic terrorists stormed a luxury hotel in the West African nation of Mali. The Israeli victim, who worked as an advisor to the government of Mali and was a regular visitor to the country, was staying at the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital of…
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