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Life Keeping Calm and Carrying On in Efrat
The first place it shows is the skin. I mean, you can pretend you’re not stressed, be totally convinced you’re not stressed, but your skin is always going to give you away. “Traitor,” I say to the mirror, applying ointment to the bright red spot on the tip of my nose. “Wuss,” I say to…
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Fast Forward South African Ruling Party Discourages Travel to Israel
South Africa’s ruling party urged the country’s citizens not to visit Israel unless they are in solidarity with the “Palestinian struggle.” While similar calls have been made by African National Congress party ministers in the past, there was reportedly a “strong consensus” on the matter at the party’s mid-term conference held in Johannesburg over the…
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Opinion 4 Things the Jewish Community Needs To Be Called Out On
Last June, a group of Israeli journalists from left to right, from Haaretz to Israel Hayom, asked me, the president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs: “How long can you hold off BDS?” I told them that only Israel could hold off BDS. We would do what we could here in America, but unless…
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Fast Forward Is Russia’s Middle East Intervention a Hidden Boon for Israel?
(JTA) — As a defiant Russia again flexes military muscles in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Cold War analogies are, perhaps, unavoidable. The deployment last month of Russian warplanes in Syria laid bare Moscow’s readiness to use force to punish leaders who would challenge its authority — as in Ukraine, from which it annexed…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva Students Weren’t Targets of New York Firebomb Attack
A firebomb believed to have been thrown at two Israeli yeshiva students in New York City was actually aimed at a Muslim food truck vendor, police said. The students, both 19, were walking in Midtown Manhattan on Friday when a still-unidentified assailant threw a bottle filled with combustible liquid that landed in front of them….
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Opinion How a Vote for Republicans Harms Israel — and Not How You Might Think
Today you’re invited to join me in a thought experiment. Assume for a moment that you’re the sort of American voter who puts Israel’s safety and welfare first when deciding how to vote. Let’s go further and assume that you don’t believe the American government should be dictating Israel’s policies, but should project American power…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Kill Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City
Israeli paramilitary police shot dead a Palestinian at an entrance to Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Monday, saying he had tried to stab an officer on patrol during the worst spell of street violence for several years. A Palestinian passerby disputed the police account, saying he had seen police shout at the man, then shoot…
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Fast Forward 5 More Palestinians Killed as Violence Rages — 12-Year-Old Boy Among Dead
Israeli security forces on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza’s border fence, Palestinian medics said, and Israeli police said they killed three Palestinian assailants in separate violence in Jerusalem. Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West…
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