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The Schmooze Did Instagram Block The Israeli Flag Emoji?
Want to show your Israeli pride when commenting on your bestie’s Instagram photos of their birthright trip? Well, now you can’t. According to the , Instagram has blocked the Israeli flag emoji. Users who try to comment with it receive an error message that says, “Comment Blocked,” and underneath, “Sorry, these types of comments aren’t…
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Fast Forward Jordan Farmar Returning to Maccabi Tel Aviv
Jordan Farmar, a Jewish NBA player who won two league championships as a member of his hometown Los Angeles Lakers, is heading back to Israel to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Farmar, who is Jewish, played 16 games for Maccabi Tel Aviv during the NBA lockout of 2011. The 6-2 guard, a standout at UCLA,…
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Fast Forward Waze To Launch Carpool Program in Israel
The popular Israeli navigation app Waze is launching a pilot carpooling program in Israel. Waze, which Google purchased for $1 billion in 2013, is testing the new application, RideWith, in the greater Tel Aviv area, Reuters reported. RideWith will use the Waze navigation system to learn the routes drivers take to work and pair them…
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Fast Forward Rivlin Calls for Trust Between Arabs and Jews at Iftar Meal
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin called for building trust between the Arab and Jewish communities in Israel, during an Iftar meal with Arab leaders at his Jerusalem residence. “The citizenship of the Arab residents of the State of Israel is not a goodwill gesture,” Rivlin said in a meeting with Arabic media Sunday night before the…
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Fast Forward Israel Coordinates Transfer of Lion Cubs from Gaza
Israel coordinated the transfer of a pair of lion cubs from Gaza to a wildlife sanctuary in Jordan. The cubs, Max and Mona, were transferred to Israel from Gaza on Sunday through the Erez crossing and then taken to a sanctuary near Amman, where they arrived on Sunday evening. They first arrived at Erez on…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Says Iran Will Be ‘Existential Threat’ to Israel, Deal or No
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that even if a deal is reached with Iran over its nuclear program, Tehran’s “aggressiveness will not end” and it will remain a principal state sponsor of terrorism. “They will continue to destabilize governments in the region and beyond. They will continue to use their proxies…
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Opinion Stop Demonizing Michael Oren
(JTA) — Michael Oren is my friend. During his nearly five years as Israel’s ambassador to the United States, we’d speak on an almost daily basis. Often those phone calls would come at 3 or 4 a.m., Washington time, and Michael, enduring another sleepless night, would share his fears about how the Obama administration was…
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Fast Forward Palestinians March on Anniversary of Abu Khdeir Lynching
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Palestinians marched in eastern Jerusalem to mark one year since the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian kidnapped and burned alive by Jews in the wake of the kidnapping and murder last June of three Israeli teens. The march took place Thursday afternoon in the Shuafat neighborhood of eastern…
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