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The Schmooze A ‘Broad City’ Guide To Surviving the Holiday Party
Thanksgiving is over. The turkey leftovers have been sandwiched and your family has come and gone. And so starts the holiday season. Dreading the usual slew of boring parties that you just can’t avoid? “Broad City”‘s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have some handy tips that will make the most dreary party seem like… well,…
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The Schmooze 4 Actors Who Had Nothing Better To Do Than Star in ‘The Red Tent’
What do you get when you combine Brody’s wife from “Homeland,” that guy from “Game of Thrones,” Minnie Driver in some kind of linen robe and the writers from the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”? Lifetime’s adaptation of “The Red Tent,”, a two part-miniseries set to air December 7 and 8. Anita Diamant’s best-selling novel…
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Fast Forward Israel Recalls Expulsion of Jews From Arab Lands
Israel for the first time marked a national day of remembrance for the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were displaced from Arab countries. In June, the Knesset adopted a law designating Nov. 30 as an annual, national day of commemoration for the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were displaced from Arab countries and Iran in…
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Opinion The Insecurity That Lies Beneath Israel’s ‘Jewish Nation’ Bill
I Once you clear away the hype and bombast, the arguments being bandied about over Israel’s proposed Jewish Nation-State law — across the board, pro and con alike — are largely beside the point. There’s a problem with the bill, but it’s not the one everyone’s worried about. The first thing to understand is that…
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Fast Forward Peres: Nation-State Bill Risks Religious Conflagration
Former Israeli president Shimon Peres criticized a bill proclaiming Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. Peres, a dovish former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose presidential term ended earlier this year, said the bill, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports, could spark a “religious upheaval.” “The controversy surrounding what’s now…
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Opinion Why Did Israel’s President Just Oppose Bibi’s Bill?
Getty Images (JTA) Reuven Rivlin just did the one thing Israel’s president — a largely ceremonial post — doesn’t usually do: He publicly, and vehemently, opposed a specific bill endorsed by the government and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Addressing a conference in Eilat, Rivlin lambasted the controversial Nation-State Law, advanced this week by Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Israeli President Slams Divisive Jewish Nation-State Bill
Israel’s president has said a bill promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that would anchor in law the status of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people runs counter to its founding fathers’ vision of equality for Arab citizens. The bill comes at a time of high tensions in Israel, the occupied West Bank…
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Fast Forward Jewish Construction Worker Killed in Terror Attack, Police Say
A Jewish construction worker who fell to his death in Petah Tikvah was killed in a terror attack, police say. Nathaniel Arami, 26, fell 11 stories from the side of a high-rise building where he was doing exterior work when both of his rappelling cables snapped in an incident on Sept. 16. His co-workers had…
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