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Fast Forward Trump ‘Considering’ Moving Embassy To Jerusalem? You Can’t Be Serious.
Vice President Mike Pence’s promise that President Trump is “giving serious consideration” to the idea of relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem won applauds from the AIPAC audience Sunday night. But the wording didn’t fool veteran Middle East watchers — they say the embassy ain’t going anywhere fast. One of them, Martin Indyk,…
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Community A Charedi Jew Explains: Why Do The Ultra-Orthodox Protest Women of the Wall?
Jewish law states that a court may not hear one side of an argument without the other party being present. If anyone should want to judge anything, they must listen to both sides of the argument, and only then can they find the truth. Many have written that the Charedi community ought to be ashamed…
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Fast Forward Breitbart’s Jerusalem Chief Boasts Of ‘Major Influence’ In Trump Era
The man running Breitbart’s Israel bureau is a Yeshiva U. graduate from Philadelphia who runs the outpost of the influential far-right media operation from his sunsplashed triplex apartment in Tel Aviv alongside a dog named for a machine gun. Aaron Klein also shares a deep suspicion of Muslims with his ex-boss, Steve Bannon, who now…
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Fast Forward Groups Quarrel Over Memorial Service At Jewish Voice For Peace Conference
(JTA) — Two Israel advocacy groups faced off, when a pro-BDS group denied the request of an anti-BDS group to hold a memorial service at a conference it had organized. Jewish Voice for Peace, which is organizing the confab, said however that it had already planned its own general memorial event. The Israel advocacy group StandWithUs had asked…
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Fast Forward Woman Charged By U.S. For 2001 Jerusalem Suicide Bombing
(JTA) — The United States charged a Jordanian woman with involvement in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15, including two Americans. The U.S. Justice Department unsealed Tuesday the charge against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who is in her mid 30s and is also known as “Khalti” and “Halati,” for conspiring to use a…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Police Officers Injured In Palestinian Stabbing Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli Border Police officers were injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. The officers were stabbed by an alleged Palestinian assailant overnight on Sunday at their post near the Lions Gate. A third officer reportedly shot and killed the man, identified by the Palestinian Maan news agency…
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Fast Forward Richard Gere Walks Jerusalem Red Carpet At Premier Of ‘Norman’
Hollywood actor Richard Gere delighted fans after walking the red carpet in Jerusalem for the Israeli premiere of his new film “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer.” The “Pretty Woman” star plays Norman Oppenheimer, a veteran “fixer” in New York’s Jewish community who runs into trouble when he tries…
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Israel News How This Jewish Cemetery In Israel Fixed Its Vandalism Problem
While a second Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in America in as many weeks, in Israel, a historic Jewish cemetery is free of vandalism for the first time in decades. The Mount of Olives cemetery is a sprawling 3,000-year-old Jewish burial ground in East Jerusalem with 150,000 graves. The cemetery is one of the oldest…
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