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Opinion Excommunicating Pro-BDS Jews Is a Huge Strategic Mistake
This month, we at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Connecticut did something that most synagogues and Jewish organizations have refused to do: We held a forum about the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel (BDS) with participants from pro-BDS Jewish Voice for Peace and from anti-BDS J Street. Lightning didn’t strike, and…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Meets With PM of Italy, a ‘Natural Bridge for Europe’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, in Florence, and thanked him for his recent “historic” speech in Israel’s Knesset. The meeting Saturday night took place in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s City Hall, and focused on international concerns including Islamic terrorism and the Iran nuclear deal, and on bilateral agreements between Israel…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Injured in West Bank Drive-by Shooting
An Israeli citizen was injured in a shooting attack in the northern West Bank. The man, a resident of an Israeli settlement, was injured after his car was fired upon on Sunday. The drive-by shooting occurred near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim. The driver received emergency treatment there for an injury to his hand…
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Israel News Tel Aviv Train Is Coming Despite Fears of Rats and ‘Carmaggedon’
In 1936, Israeli poet Nathan Alterman was already bemoaning Tel Aviv’s lack of a subway. The “underground dream” of the new city, he wrote in Haaretz, had “evaporated.” Lamenting the transportation system in Israel’s metropolis has practically become a national pastime, as government inaction has delayed such a project for decades. But now, 79 years…
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Culture Breaking the Silence About Jewish Suicide
A few weeks ago a professional window cleaner came to work at my house in central Jerusalem. The window guy was an affable, middle-aged, native English speaker. After a brief episode of Jewish geography, he began cleaning on the top floor, working his way down to the main floor, where I was writing on my…
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Fast Forward Nepal Bans Surrogate Births — Worry for Gay Israelis
Nepal’s Supreme Court has issued an injunction to stop women from carrying surrogate pregnancies, depriving Israel same-sex couples of the option to begin the pregnancies there. The injunction, issued this week, came as the court will rule on a petition to ban the process outright in Nepal. The petition argues that surrogacy exploits poor women’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Arms Fuel South Sudan Civil War
The South Sudanese army is using Israeli weapons to fight its civil war, according to a United Nations report. A U.N. Security Council report about the conflict said that photographs showed South Sudanese officers and soldiers using the Ace, an advanced version of the Galil assault rifle, Haaretz reported Wednesday. The rifle is produced by…
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Fast Forward American Airlines Blames $20M Loss for Scrapping Philadelphia Israel Flight
American Airlines is canceling its lone route to Israel solely because it was losing money on it, the airline told JTA. “Over the last year, the route lost more than $20 million,” Casey Norton, the airline’s director of corporate communications, told JTA in an email of the Philadelphia-Tel Aviv flight. “In fact, the route has…
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