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Opinion Zionist Students Don’t Need Safe Spaces
At the end of , I asked “what is next?” Within hours, Yaman Salahi, a lawyer at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, responded with a detailed account of the various ways in which right-wing groups have used legal mechanisms and debates over funding to limit the Israel/Palestine debate on campus. Though many of these efforts are…
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The Schmooze Is Porn Queen Jenna Jameson Joining the Tribe?
Jenna Jameson may soon go from ‘The Queen of Porn’ to the queen of Shabbat. The twice-divorced entrepreneur and (mostly retired) adult film star has been cooking up a kosher storm on social media. Could she be joining the Tribe? When a Twitter follower asked her when she started cooking Kosher, she wrote: I started…
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Fast Forward Did Israel Launch Cyberattack on Iran Nuclear Talks Hotels
Three European hotels that hosted the Iran nuclear talks reportedly were targeted by a computer virus widely believed to be used as spyware by Israel. Each of the unnamed hotels was targeted by a version of the Duqu virus about two weeks before hosting the negotiations between Iran and world powers, The Wall Street Journal…
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Fast Forward Deep Splits Bared in Israeli Coalition on Peace With Palestinians
(JTA) — When Israel’s coalition government formed last month, its constituent parties all but ruled out establishing a Palestinian state in the near future. But that doesn’t mean they can agree on what to do instead. Speaking at the Herzliya Conference this week, Israel’s premier diplomatic and security policy gathering, senior Israeli government officials struck…
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Fast Forward Israel Backers Avoid Sweeping Defeat in Jerusalem Passport Case
(JTA) — Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court decision that will keep “Israel” off the passports of Jerusalem-born Americans, begins by calling Jerusalem a “delicate subject.” Competing claims to the Holy City were not the only timeworn and sensitive issue the justices contended with in their 6-3 decision on Monday,…
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Fast Forward Will Ahava Bow to BDS and Quit West Bank?
The Ahava Dead Sea minerals cosmetics company, under pressure for operating in the West Bank, is considering opening a manufacturing plant inside Israel’s sovereign borders. The company, owned by Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem, located about one mile from the Dead Sea in the eastern West Bank, is considering opening a new production plant in the Tamar…
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Fast Forward Israel Voices Concern Over Gulf Arms Race
Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon voiced concern on Tuesday that Washington’s supply of advanced arms to Gulf Arab states to deter Iran could eventually challenge Israel’s U.S.-backed regional military supremacy. “Even if there are not now any hostile designs (among them) against us, as we know in the Middle East intentions are liable to change….
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Fast Forward Orthodox vs. Orthodox as Right Wing Israeli Parties Feud
(JTA) — When haredi Orthodox political parties Shas and United Torah Judaism entered Israel’s governing coalition, they vowed to roll back a raft of recent religious reforms. In turn, the secularist Yesh Atid party raised its voice in protest. But now, the haredi parties have a more surprising opponent: Jewish Home, a fellow religious party…
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