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Fast Forward Western Wall Cleaned for Passover
Workers at the Western Wall removed the notes placed in the cracks by worshippers in advance of Passover. The notes were removed Wednesday morning under the supervision of the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovich. They will be buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. The Western Wall Institute also receives tens…
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Fast Forward Israel Freezing Eastern Jerusalem Construction, Report Says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is freezing the construction of 1,500 housing units in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, an Israeli newspaper is reporting. The report of the construction freeze, by the popular Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week visited the suburban Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood, where as prime…
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The Schmooze Kanye West and Kim Kardashian To Visit Israel
Getty Images Kanye West and Kim Kardashian reportedly are planning to visit Israel next month. The celebrity power couple booked rooms at Jerusalem’s high-end Waldorf Astoria Hotel for themselves and their entourage for April 12, the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot reported Wednesday. The hotel declined to comment to Yediot, which reported that everyone involved in…
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Opinion Watch: Obama on Bibi, Palestinians, Reevaluation
President Obama used his March 24 press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as an opportunity for a lengthy discussion of his plans to reevaluate America’s approach to Israeli-Palestinian relations. It runs 10 minutes, from 34:10 to 44:54. He starts off by inviting a question from Associated Press White House reporter Josh Lederman. Below the…
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Fast Forward Conservative Movement Leaders Praise Netanyahu for ‘Arab’ Comment Apology
Conservative movement leaders applauded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regrets for an Election Day statement about Arab Israelis and decried a pledge by J Street to press Jewish groups not to spend in the West Bank. “The Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism welcome and applaud today’s apology by Prime Minister Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Meet Ruth Porat, Google’s New Jewish CFO
(JTA) – To the business press, the symbolism of Ruth Porat’s move from her position as chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley to her newly announced perch as Google’s CFO of the future couldn’t be more obvious — it represents a shift in power from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. And there’s no question that…
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Opinion Revealing Israel’s Nuclear Secrets
In early February, the Pentagon declassified a 386-page report from 1987, exposing for the first time ever the actual depth of top-secret military cooperation between the United States and Israel — including, amazingly, information about Israel’s unacknowledged nuclear program. In view of the caustic tension that has increased lately between Washington and Jerusalem, the timing…
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Fast Forward Israeli Citizen Was Aboard Germanwings Flight That Crashed in French Alps
An Israeli citizen was aboard the Germanwings flight 4U 9525 that crashed in the French Alps, Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed. Eyal Baum, 40, a businessman living in Germany who was flying home from Barcelona, was among the 144 passengers killed on Tuesday morning in the crash of the Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa’s budget airline,…
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