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The Schmooze When Russell Brand Dropped Acid at Seder
Getty Images Russell Brand wants you to know he’s not an anti-Semite. In light of accusations made by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the New York Observer on Monday that Brand is an “Israel hater,” the British comedian has written an essay in the Huffington Post explaining his side of things. Being Russell Brand, the piece…
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Fast Forward Ashdod Synagogue Hit By Rocket From Gaza, 3 Injured
An Ashdod synagogue was hit by a rocket Friday afternoon, injuring three people lightly. Earlier in the day heavy rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel moderately wounded another Israeli in Beersheva, Haaretz reported. Two men in their 20s and a woman in her 40s were injured by shrapnel from the Ashdod rocket. All three…
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Fast Forward 75 Percent of Israeli Jews Oppose Intermarriage, New Poll Says
Three-quarters of Israeli Jews and nearly two-thirds of Israeli Arabs would not marry someone from a different religion, according to a poll. Conducted by Haaretz and the Dialog company on Tuesday and Wednesday, the poll found that opposition to interfaith relationships was highest among haredi Orthodox Jews, at 95 percent. But 88 percent of traditional…
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Fast Forward Hamas Executes 18 People Accused of Collaborating With Israel
Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel on Friday, a day after Israel tracked down and killed three top Hamas commanders, the highest-ranking militants to be killed in the six-week war. Seven people were shot dead in front of worshippers outside a mosque in one of Gaza’s main squares, witnesses…
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Opinion Who Leaked Israel’s Top-Secret Briefing About Reoccupying Gaza?
Six weeks into a Gaza conflict that continually lurches from cease-fire to live fire and back again, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing what could turn into the greatest challenge of his political career. Pressure is building in the Knesset and in the security services for a criminal investigation into the leak in early…
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Fast Forward Giant Palestine Flag Draped on New York Bridge Under Investigation
New York City detectives were searching on Thursday for activists suspected of unfurling a massive Palestine flag over the side of an East River bridge during a march in support of Palestinians in Gaza, police said. The flag, draped over the south side of the Manhattan Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, appeared during a Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Gaza Residents Suffering From Severe Water Shortage Due to Conflict
Gaza residents are suffering from a severe water shortage as a result of the ongoing conflict there. Damage to wells and Gaza’s energy infrastructure has disrupted the pumping and distribution of water, cutting the coastal strip’s water supply by half, according to Haaretz. In addition, hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans have been unable to…
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Fast Forward Australian Jewish School Evacuated By Bomb Scare
Students at a Jewish school in Melbourne were evacuated amid a bomb scare. More than 200 students at the King David School were moved off the campus after 8 a.m. Thursday when security personnel found an abandoned van containing a suspicious object near the school. The Australian Jewish community’s Community Security Group alerted local police,…
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