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Opinion Bibi’s Bad Choice
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month has already accomplished a rare feat: It has united ideologues as different as Jeremy Ben Ami of J Street and Chris Wallace at Fox News — in opposition. When the left-wing J Street organizes a petition calling on Congress to delay the speech, and…
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Israel News David Landau, Provocative Israeli Editor, Dies at 67
David Landau, who has died at the age of 67, was one of Israel’s leading journalists. Editor-in-chief of Haaretz from 2004 to 2008, he was the founding editor of the paper’s English-language edition in 1997. To the casual observer, Landau may have appeared something of an enigma. Provocative and forthright on one hand, yet hugely…
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Fast Forward France’s Francois Hollande Pleads With Jews To Stay
President Francois Hollande appeared to rebuff Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invitation for French Jews to emigrate, by promising on Tuesday to protect them from anti-Semitism and telling them: “Your place is here.” “You, French people of the Jewish faith, your place is here, in your home. France is your country,” Hollande said in a…
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Fast Forward ICC Backers Set To Ignore Israel Plea To Cut Funding
(Reuters) — Many leading backers of the International Criminal Court will ignore Israel’s call for them to cut funding in response to an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials told Reuters. The continued support from countries which provide more than a third of the court’s cash, including Germany, Britain and France, averts…
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Fast Forward French Immigrants Find Peace of Mind in Israel — But ‘Ou Est Le Fromage’?
(Reuters) — At a busy supermarket in Jerusalem a smartly dressed woman, recently arrived in Israel, was stopping shoppers to ask if anyone spoke French. Having found a candidate, her first question was: “Where’s the cheese counter?” For Jews coming to “the Jewish state” from all corners reached by the diaspora, the move may bring…
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Opinion Why Israel’s Crazy Electoral System Might Be Best Idea Ever
Jewish suffragettes scored a signal achievement in 1920, when the first nationwide elections were held in the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine. They received 600 votes. This smattering of women — we may presume that nearly all of them were women — went to their polling places and chose, from among nearly two dozen…
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Food Americans Try Snacking While Sabra
Buzzfeed’s latest taste-test video. What are those wacky Jewish people eating now? That seems to be the question addressed in the latest of BuzzFeed’s “Americans Try…” video series, which shows an assortment of perky young tasters sampling a variety of unfamiliar foods. This time, it’s Israeli packaged snacks, which appear to be more of a…
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Fast Forward Democrats Push Back on Iran Sanctions
Democratic U.S. senators introduced a resolution on Monday opposing more sanctions on Iran unless nuclear talks fail or Tehran breaks an agreement, countering a push for tougher sanctions backed by Republicans that President Barack Obama has pledged to veto. “For those who agree that the sanctions bill in the Banking Committee is detrimental, this resolution…
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