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Opinion What Hillary Clinton Needs To Tell the Jews
Getty Images Now that Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid is official, American voters will want to get a whole lot clearer on her policies. For the Jewish community, some of the major questions will revolve, inevitably, around Israel and Iran. And we shouldn’t be surprised if, on these topics, we hear her sounding a more hawkish…
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The Schmooze Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Baptize North in Jerusalem
Getty Images In a quick visit to Jerusalem, reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West had their toddler daughter, North West, baptized on Monday at a 12th century Armenian church in the old walled city. Dozens of fans mobbed an SUV that took the couple, their 22-month-old child and Kardashian’s sister Khloe to…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Plans To Plead With Congress To Give Iran Nuclear Diplomacy a Chance
Secretary of State John Kerry will make the case this week to skeptical Republicans and Democrats that the U.S. Congress should give him another two and a half months to secure a final nuclear deal with Iran. In closed briefings with the full House of Representatives scheduled for 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Monday and…
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Fast Forward Gunter Grass, Controversial German Nobel Laureate, Dies at 87
German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum,” an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer’s duty was to…
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Fast Forward Will Iran Deal Spur Push for Israel Unity Government?
(Reuters) — Concerns over Iran’s nuclear negotiations and the need to repair relations with the White House may push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek to form a national unity government with his center-left rivals. Political analysts pointed on Monday to a new position paper from the main challenger that Netanyahu beat in last…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Launches Bid for White House — Has Vowed Better Ties to Israel
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her second bid for the White House. Clinton, the former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, entered the 2016 presidential race on Sunday afternoon with a two-minute video posted on her campaign website and on YouTube. She is seen as the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination. The…
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Fast Forward Suspect Arrested in Murder of Israeli Man in Berlin
An Albanian man was arrested in connection with the murder of an Israeli man in Berlin. The Albanian man was arrested late Friday in the Czech Republic near the German border. Germany will seek to extradite him, the Associated Press reported. The Israeli man, who was identified as 22-year-old Yossi Damari days after his body…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Offers Alternatives to Iran Deal After Obama Criticism
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the international community to negotiate a better deal with Iran on its nuclear program and offered alternatives. Netanyahu’s statement on Sunday came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that Netanyahu has not provided any alternatives to the framework agreement signed earlier this month. “The prime…
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