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Fast Forward Israel Nixes Subsidies to Anti-Vaxxer Parents
(JTA) — Each month, the Israeli government sends a check to every Israeli family with at least one child. The more children you have, the more money you get. Unless, that is, you don’t vaccinate your children. According to a clause in the coalition agreement signed last month by the ruling Likud party and the haredi…
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Fast Forward 5 Surprising Things Scott Walker Revealed About his Trip to Israel
Recently back from a trip to Israel, Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker took to to share some of his thoughts about the Holy Land. Here are the highlights: 1. Visiting Israel has helped him decided whether to run for president. Walker told the Israeli newspaper “Israel Hayom”(conveniently owned by Republican mega-donor Sheldon…
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Opinion What Israel’s Chief of Staff Is Worried About — No, It’s Not Iran
Two members of Congress from New York, a Democrat and a Republican, are calling on President Obama to provide Israel with massive, 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, capable of penetrating Iran’s fortified underground nuclear facilities. They also want to send B-52 long-range bombers that can carry the huge devices. “Providing Israel with a stronger capability to destroy…
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Culture Yiddish Sex Tips for Girls Find Home in Jerusalem Library
A few months ago, Dr. Yoel Finkelman was browsing through the catalog of the New York auction house Kestenbaum & Company; it’s a regular chore at the National Library’s collections department. He noticed an interesting item. Finkelman, the curator of the library’s Judaica collection, noticed a Yiddish pamphlet titled “Advice for Women and Young Women…
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Fast Forward Israel Thanks U.S. for Blocking Drive on Middle East Nuclear Arms Ban
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the United States for blocking an Egyptian-led drive on a possible Middle East nuclear weapons ban at a major United Nations conference, an Israeli official said on Saturday. It was a rare expression of diplomatic harmony with the United States from Netanyahu, whose relations with President Barack Obama have…
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Israel News Hiking the Path of Abraham Through Unseen Corners of West Bank
Bani Naim is a Palestinian village straight out of the Bible. Tradition has it that the beige hilltop hamlet is the site from which Abraham watched the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is also supposedly the resting place of Lot, Abraham’s nephew in the Book of Genesis. On my hiking trip to the village…
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Fast Forward BDS Feud Returns to Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop
Monthly general meetings at the Park Slope Food Coop are usually staid affairs. Roughly 200 of the 16,500 members typically attend to discuss routine matters and get credit for the shift everyone is required to work. But last month’s meeting was different. With a discussion on boycotting Israeli company SodaStream on the agenda, around 400…
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Fast Forward Switzerland Defends Funding for Breaking the Silence
Swiss government officials defended their decision to fund an exhibition by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that exposes alleged Israeli war crimes. Breaking the Silence is scheduled to put on the exhibition next month at Zurich’s Kulturhaus Helferei with funding from the Swiss federal government and the municipality, Swiss officials confirmed this week to…
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