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Fast Forward Texas A&M Will Open Branch Campus in Israel, Chancellor John Sharp Says
Texas A&M is set to announce the creation of a branch campus in Israel. Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp are in Israel, where they will announce plans for Texas A&M Peace University in Nazareth on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. The newspaper said Texas A&M would become…
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Fast Forward Saudi Arabia To Make ‘Major Shift’ In Relationship With the United States
Upset at President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years. Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief is vowing that the kingdom will make a “major shift” in…
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Fast Forward Pope Reaches Out To Jews With Email To Holocaust Lawyer
Pope Francis has continued to reach out to Jews, this time with a personal email to Menachem Z. Rosensaft, an American law professor who deals with Holocaust and genocide issues. Francis’s email was a reflection on the place of God during the Holocaust. It was, Elizabeth Tenety wrote in the Washington Post’s On Faith blog,…
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Life Hello from the Sisterhood’s New Editor
Dear readers, I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new editor of the Sisterhood blog. As the deputy culture editor of the Forward, I’ve been covering gender and Judaism for the past two years, writing about topics like halachic infertility, Hasidic feminism and transgender Jews. But my path to the Sisterhood actually began long before…
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Israel News Hollywood Insiders Form Group To Counter Celebrity BDS Campaigns
For activists on both sides of the battle over boycotting Israel, there’s no business quite like show business. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to isolate Israel because of its occupation of the West Bank, has often had trouble gaining traction on other fronts. But the performing arts have emerged as the one…
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Fast Forward Bloomberg ‘Flattered’ by $1 Million ‘Jewish Nobel’ Genesis Prize
(JTA) — In August, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told New York magazine, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could get all the Russian billionaires to move here?” Today, the Russian billionaires — or at least some Jewish ones — returned the compliment, naming Bloomberg the first winner of the Genesis Prize. The new $1…
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News ADL Releases 2013 List of Top Ten Anti-Israel Groups in America
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday released their 2013 list of the top ten anti-Israel groups based in America. The list included two groups with Jewish affiliations. They are (in no particular order except alphabetical): ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) American Muslims for Palestine CODEPINK Friends of Sabeel-North America If Americans Knew/Council…
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Fast Forward Toronto Transit Rejects Anti-Israel Ads As ‘Inaccurate and Misleading’
The Toronto Transit Commission rejected four anti-Israel advertisements for being “inaccurate and misleading.” Brad Ross, a spokesman for the transit commission, told JTA on Monday that the ads were turned down because they were “inaccurate and misleading.” The ads were intended to run on buses and subways, as well as the commission’s shelters. Proposed by…
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