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Fast Forward Orthodox Cancer Teen Pleads in Video for Death With Dignity
A Haredi Orthodox teenager has released a video calling on the Israeli public to demonstrate in front of a Haifa hospital to demand that it discontinue his chemotherapy treatment. The unnamed Israeli teen, 16, from Tiberias, says in the video released on Sunday that he is receiving the treatment against his will. “Dear people of…
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Opinion How Israel’s Wars Hurt Diaspora Jews
The Israeli cabinet held a special session June 28, dedicated to one of its least-known and potentially most fraught rituals: the annual briefing on the current state of Jewish life worldwide. It’s presented each spring by a semi-official Jerusalem think tank that monitors Israel-Diaspora relations, the Jewish People Policy Institute. Some of what they talked…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Babies Born in Israel to Identical Twin Parents
The Breslov Hasidic community in Israel is calling the birth of two baby girls 20 minutes apart a miracle. The girls born last week in Netanya are the daughters of two couples – identical twin brothers born 20 minutes apart and married to identical twin sisters born 20 minutes apart. The births at the Laniado…
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News Is Love Winning in the Israel-Iran Social Media Wars?
While Israelis from left to right lamented the Iran nuclear deal signed in mid-July, Ronny Edry, a 44-year-old graphic designer in Tel Aviv, took the opportunity to speak directly to Iranians. “We’re coming for Shabbat!!” he wrote on his Facebook page, Israel-Loves-Iran. Three years ago, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened a military strike…
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Fast Forward U.S. Denies Report Jonathan Pollard May Be Freed Soon
U.S. officials on Friday denied a Wall Street Journal report that the Obama administration was considering early release for Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel. The Justice Department said Pollard must serve his full 30-year sentence. It stressed that he has long been eligible for consideration for parole…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Group Booted From British Union Festival
Organizers of a trade union festival in Britain asked pro-Israel activists to leave and pack up their stand following harassment by supporters of the Palestinian cause. Members of the Bournemouth Action for Israel (BAFI) grassroots group claimed that their kiosk was defaced and they were verbally abused by Palestine Solidarity Campaign supporters at the Tolpuddle…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Says Israel Strike on Iran Would Be ‘Huge Mistake’
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it would be a huge mistake if Israel decided to take unilateral military action against Iran over its nuclear program in the future. Kerry was asked in an NBC “Today” show interview if the nuclear deal reached last week between would make it more likely that Israel…
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Fast Forward Reuven Rivlin Hosts Unity Event With Reform and Conservative Rabbis
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted leaders from the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and secular movements at his residence for an event demonstrating Jewish unity. It was a significant move for Rivlin, who has drawn criticism in the past for denigrating non-Orthodox Jews. Earlier in his career, he had declined to say whether as president he would…
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