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The Schmooze War, What Is It Good For? Jewish Sexy-Time
War, what is it good for? Jewish sexy-time, apparently. Undeterred by the conflict, 24 Jews participated in the first ever Jewish National Fund- JDate Singles Trip to Israel. Translation: Jews age 30 to 45 travel to Israel to get it on in the sun, with a side of hummus. The launch of Operation Protective Edge…
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The Schmooze Celebrities Tweet the Middle East — With Controversial Results
(JTA) — First, there were the celebrity tweeter and deleters. As the Israel-Gaza conflict continues to spark a proxy war on Twitter and other social media, numerous celebrities are getting themselves caught in the crossfire. Earlier this week, both singer Rihanna and basketball player Dwight Howard alienated partisans on both sides by tweeting the #FreePalestine…
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Opinion I’m Done Apologizing
A Palestinian gestures as flames rise from the site of an Israeli air strike in Gaza / Getty Images I’m done apologizing for Israel. It’s tiring to apologize over and over. Instead, I’ve decided to come clean: I am a progressive American rabbi who leans left pretty hard. I’ve been engaged, as a US faith…
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Food Israel’s Pepper Protest ? and Solution
In the summer of 2011, ?the cottage cheese protest? began In Israel. Israelis had enough with the rising costs of living, and demanded to return the possibility to live in dignity ? starting with cottage cheese. This demand is certainly still out there for the government to handle, and there is no doubt that some…
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Fast Forward Flight Ban Delays Baltimore Dad From Reaching Bedside of Wounded Soldier Jordan Low
The father of a wounded Israeli soldier from Baltimore was reportedly delayed from reaching his hospital bedside the suspension of most foreign flights into Israel. Jeffrey Low was traveling with his son Joshua on a Delta flight from New York to Ben-Gurion when the flight was diverted to Paris on Tuesday, the Baltimore Sun reported….
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Fast Forward MIT Expert Says Israel’s Much-Vaunted Iron Dome Only 5% Effective
An MIT security expert says that Israel’s famed Iron Dome missile defense system is flawed, with a success rate of under five percent. An analysis posted on the website of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, thebulletin.org, by Theodore Postol, a professor of science technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,…
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Fast Forward 57% of Americans Back Israel in Gaza War
A majority of Americans back Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, according to a poll. The CNN poll conducted from Friday to Sunday – just as Israel was launching its ground operation in the conflict, which started July 8 – found that 57 percent of Americans see Israel’s actions as justified, with 12 percent among…
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Opinion Staring Into the Void, for Both Israelis and Palestinians
I visited Israel at the end of June, after the three yeshiva students were kidnapped but before their bodies were found, before the Palestinian teen was murdered in a revenge attack, before the air strikes and the ground war and the horrific death toll in Gaza. Before it all fell apart. It seems like a…
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