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News Ukrainian Jews Seek To Emigrate Amid Uncertainty
The Jewish Agency for Israel has seen a spike in Ukrainians looking to immigrate to Israel as turmoil roils their country. Marina Steiman, a Jewish Agency official in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, declined to give numbers, but she said the agency is receiving “more calls then usual.” Steinman, the agency’s director of community relations in…
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Fast Forward Michele Bachmann Accuses Jews of Selling Out Israel
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said American Jewish organizations are selling out on Israel in favor of the Obama administration. Bachmann made the accusation this week during a telephone interview with Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and host of the online radio show that is featured on the conservative Christian group’s website. “What…
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Fast Forward Israel Envoy Meets With Ukraine ‘Anti-Semite’ Dmitry Yarosh
Israel’s ambassador in Kiev, Reuven Din El, opened a hotline with a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist movement to “prevent provocations.” The agreement came at the end of a meeting held last week between Din El and Dmitry Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector paramilitary group, which participated in the overthrow of the government of President Viktor…
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Fast Forward WhatsApp’s Jan Koum Returns to Hacker Roots
A few days after selling WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion, Jan Koum stepped into a suite at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco to celebrate with old friends, including CEOs, reformed hackers and a few people who fell into both those camps. Conducted over snacks and beer, the late-night festivity was a spontaneous…
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Opinion 3 Ways To Support Our Jewish Troops and Build Community
In 2009, my husband, an active-duty naval officer, was deployed to Iraq for 12 months. To prepare for a year without him, my children (then ages 6 and 4) and I moved from our military base in Washington State back into the home we owned in the Washington, D.C., area to be close to our…
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News Why Tiny Ukraine Jewish Community Plays Key Role in Propaganda War
Jews make up just 0.2% of Ukraine’s 44.5 million population. But to hear activists, analysts and commentators discussing the Ukrainian crisis, a listener could be forgiven for thinking that the fate of Ukrainian Jews is one of the central issues at stake. In recent weeks, Russian and Ukrainian politicians, as well as Ukrainian-Jewish leaders, have…
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Fast Forward New York Trainer Pleads Guilty To Violent Jewish ‘Get’ Scheme
A New York personal trainer pleaded guilty on Thursday to being part of a New Jersey ring that used violence to coerce Jewish husbands to agree to grant their wives religious divorces, federal prosecutors said on Thursday. David Hellman, 31, was one of 10 men, including two Orthodox Jewish rabbis, arrested last fall in the…
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Fast Forward Pluralist Council Will Oversee Robinson’s Arch at Western Wall
The Robinson’s Arch plaza at the Western Wall will come under the control of a future government-appointed pluralist council. Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett forged an agreement within the government on Thursday that would put the egalitarian prayer site in the hands of the council with non-Orthodox representation. Last week, reports emerged that the…
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