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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slams Mahmoud Abbas For Light Rail Attack in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the light rail attack in Jerusalem that killed a 3-month-old girl. The Prime Minister’s Office spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, on his official Twitter feed identified the driver of the car that crashed Wednesday into the Ammunition Hill station in northern Jerusalem as a Hamas…
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Fast Forward Infant Killed, 8 Wounded in Suspected Terror Attack in Israel
A baby was killed and eight people injured when a car slammed into pedestrians at a Jerusalem light railway stop on Wednesday, emergency services said, in what police described as a “terrorist attack.” The driver was shot by police as he tried to flee the scene on foot and was in serious condition in hospital,…
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Fast Forward Two Israeli Soldiers Injured in Attack Launched From Egypt
Attackers on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula opened fire on Israeli soldiers across the border on Wednesday, wounding two, the Israeli military said. Islamist militants are active in the peninsula, which borders southern Israel, though assaults across the fenced frontier are rare. The attackers fired guns and an anti-tank missile at the Israelis, the military said in…
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Israel News Dueling Narratives Emerge On Palestinian Internment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II scarred American history for years to come. Now, a new research paper argues that Palestinians share a similar traumatic experience. Pointing to a barely discussed chapter in the history of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, the paper highlights a time when the fledgling Jewish state interned…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Withdraws Support From Conversion Bill
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly has withdrawn his support for a bill that would allow local rabbis to oversee conversions. The bill, sponsored by the Hatnua party led by Tzipi Livni, passed one reading in the Knesset plenum in the summer. The Orthodox Chief Rabbinate, which oversees all conversions in Israel, opposes the measure….
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Fast Forward Rabbi Freundel Conversions Are Valid, Israeli Chief Rabbinate Says
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate said it will recognize all past conversions performed by Rabbi Barry Freundel, the Washington rabbi charged with voyeurism. On Tuesday, the Rabbinate clarified that it was joining the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America in affirming the validity of the conversions, a day after the Rabbinate said it would be examining their…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Protesters Firebomb Jewish-Owned Building in East Jerusalem
Palestinian protesters threw firebombs at an apartment building in the eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Silwan after Jews moved in. No one was injured in the incident, which occurred late Monday, hours after nine Jewish families moved into the two buildings, Israel Police said, the French news agency AFP reported. No arrests were made. The…
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Fast Forward Israeli Chief Rabbinate Will Review Rabbi Freundel’s Conversions
(Haaretz) — The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is reviewing the validity of conversions performed in recent years by Rabbi Barry Freundel, the Orthodox American rabbi charged with secretly filming women in his synagogue’s ritual bath, Haaretz has learned. “We are appalled by the accusations against Rabbi Barry Freundel and wish to stress that the acts attributed…
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