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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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Fast Forward Facebook Expanding Its Operations in Israel
Facebook said it will expand its operations in Israel. The company announced this week that it would hire 30 new employees, including engineers, product managers and designers, for its development center, and 10 new employees for marketing and business development, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Facebook already has 55 development personnel and 20 sales…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu to Appoint Moshe Kahlon as Israel’s Finance Minister
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he will appoint Moshe Kahlon as the country’s finance minister. Kahlon, the founder and leader of the center-right Kulanu party, met with Netanyahu on Tuesday night, Haaretz reported. A day earlier, Kahlon had announced that his party, which won 10 Knesset seats in last week’s election, would join…
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Opinion At Jew-Centric J Street, Arabs Ask the Best Questions
Courtesy of J Street For the Jews who attended this year’s J Street Conference, the event was an expression of community, idealism and ideology. In a way, it was about how Israel was all about us, the Jews. It was about our values and our identity, which have been so inextricably intertwined with the state…
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Fast Forward Jewish Community United in Grief After Brooklyn Blaze Kills 7 Children
(JTA) — It was New York’s deadliest blaze since 2007, and there were only two survivors: mother Gayle Sassoon, 45, and daughter Tziporah, 15, who jumped from second-story windows to escape the flames sparked by a malfunctioning Shabbat hot plate in their home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. The other children could be heard screaming…
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