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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Breaks Guinness Record for Largest Shabbat Dinner
More than 2,000 people set the Guinness World Record for “largest Shabbat dinner” in Tel Aviv. At an event Friday evening hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch and White City Shabbat, a Tel Aviv organization that hosts and coordinates Shabbat meals, 2,226 people gathered for what was billed as the largest Shabbat dinner ever. An official representative of…
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Opinion Taking Different Lessons From Same Threat
Yeshiva students pray for safe return of three kidnapped youths With the terrorist kidnapping of three teenagers dominating the news cycle and nearly every private conversation for the past two days, Israelis have had little attention to spare for America’s national agony in Iraq. It’s hard to think of a time when the two nations’…
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Fast Forward Israel Accuses Hamas of Kidnapping 3 Teens
Israel said on Sunday that Hamas militants had abducted three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank, warning of “serious consequences” as it pressed on with a search and detained dozens of Palestinians. The two 16-year-olds and a third man aged 19, seminary students in a Jewish settlement bloc, disappeared on Thursday. “These teenagers were…
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Opinion Kidnapped Students Could’ve Been Us
Phil Getz, center, relaxes with fellow yeshiva students in Gush Etzion several years ago Like many students and graduates of Israeli yeshiva, I have been refreshing my computer browser non-stop since Friday morning looking for any sign of hope for the three Israeli teenage boys who were kidnapped on Thursday evening. For those of us…
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Fast Forward Is Torched Car Clue in Suspected Kidnap of 3 Jewish Teens on West Bank?
Police believe a torched car with Israeli plates found today by Palestinian police near Hebron may have been used in the suspected kidnapping of three Jewish teenagers who went missing while hitchhiking in the occupied West Bank. The newish Hyundai sedan may have been used to trick the teens because it appeared to be driven…
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Fast Forward Methodist Pension Board Divests From Company That Aids Israeli Occupation and Prisons
The United Methodist Church’s pension board is selling its shares in a British company that supplies security equipment to Israel for use in prisons and in the West Bank. A press release issued by United Methodist Kairos Response, a movement within the church that advocates on behalf of Palestinian Christians, said the decision to divest…
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The Schmooze Dana International Uses Orthodox Children in Gay Pride Video
Dana International, Israel’s most famous transgender pop star, has managed once again to draw International media attention. Her latest video for “Yeladim Ze Simcha” (‘Children are Joy’) is causing controversy in Israel and beyond, after parents of the religious Jewish children featured in the video claimed they didn’t know their kids were shooting a music…
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Israel News Bitcoin Makes Aliyah as Virtual Currency Gains Favor in Israel
(JTA) — Blocks away from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the headquarters of two major banks, in the corner of the lobby of a boutique hotel, Nimrod Gruber sticks his hand into an ATM. A few seconds later, a QR code prints out. Gruber takes the slip of paper and walks away, no cash…
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