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The Schmooze A Chat With the Writers/Directors of ‘Gett’
I don’t recall ever feeling as angry as I was after seeing “The Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” the blistering gut-wrenching must-see film by writer/directors Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. Warmly ensconced at The Regency Hotel during one of New York’s recent snow-ins, the Elkabetz siblings alternated in answering my questions about the film’s heroine…
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Fast Forward Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Inaugurate Israel’s New Headquarters
Apple CEO Tim Cook will inaugurate Apple Israel’s new headquarters. During his visit to Israel next week, Cook will meet with former President Shimon Peres and senior figures in the nation’s high-tech industry, the Israeli business daily Globes reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. Apple Israel headquarters in Herzliya Pituach, a wealthy beachfront district in central…
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Fast Forward Americans Oppose Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to Congress
Nearly half of Americans think the invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress was inappropriate, but more believe President Barack Obama should meet the Israeli prime minister in Washington. The YouGov poll posted Wednesday showed that 47 percent of respondents said it was “inappropriate” for Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House speaker, to invite…
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Fast Forward ISIS Holds Israeli Arab as ‘Mossad Spy’
Islamic State said on Thursday it was holding an Israeli Arab who had posed as a foreign fighter in order to spy for Mossad, an account denied by Israel and by the man’s family, who said he had been kidnapped. In an interview published by Islamic State’s online English-language magazine Dabiq, Muhammad Musallam, 19, said…
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Opinion Does Brian Williams Punishment Fit ‘Crime’?
(JTA) — By now, anyone interested enough to have read about the issue knows the basic facts: Longtime NBC anchor Brian Williams lied about having been on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq in 2003. In truth, he was on a different helicopter that landed unimpeded about a half hour after the other chopper…
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Fast Forward Bob Simon Dies in Car Crash — Award-Winner Stoked Israel Controversy on ’60 Minutes’
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, whose decades-long career included covering major overseas conflicts and surviving Iraqi prison, was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in New York City, police and CBS said. He was 73. A longtime member of the network’s “60 Minutes” on-air team, Simon was a passenger in a hired car…
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Israel News Why Israel Lobby Is Biggest Casualty of Feud Over Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech
The raging dispute between Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House over the Israeli prime minister’s planned speech to Congress has badly damaged relations between the two countries and destroyed any semblance of trust between the leaders of two of the closest allies on earth. But the biggest casualties may be the normally omnipotent pro-Israel lobby…
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Opinion Why Losing Jon Stewart Hurts the Middle East
Jon Stewart and Bassem Youssef on “The Daily Show” / Youtube Jon Stewart quitting “The Daily Show” is bad for the Jews. It’s bad for the Muslims. It’s bad for the entire Middle East. If you want to know why, just watch this clip of the real Jon Stewart joking around with “Egypt’s Jon Stewart,”…
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