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Fast Forward Brussels Will Name Monument After Jewish Nobel Physicist Francois Englert
The city of Brussels will name part of its famous Atomium monument after François Englert, the Belgian Jew who won the Nobel Prize in physics. A city official told Belgian media Wednesday that Englert, who won the prize the previous day together with Peter Higgs of Britain for their discovery of the Higgs particle, will…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen, First Jewish Woman Fed Chair, Brings Compassion to Tough Job
Janet Yellen, President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, combines a solid reputation as an economist with a keen interest in communication – fitting for someone who once joked that her dinner guests should expect a discussion of economics. Yellen, a former professor who would be the first Jewish woman to hold the…
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Israel News Theater J Scales Back Show as Pro-Israel Critics Pressure Washington D.C. Troupe
In an apparent bow to the right in the Jewish culture wars, Theater J, a celebrated theatrical group housed at Washington’s DC Jewish Community Center, will not produce a play set to open this spring that has been denounced by critics as anti-Israel. The troupe will instead run a workshop on the play and a…
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Fast Forward U.S. to Suspend Delivery of ‘Large Scale Military Systems’ to Egypt
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration is suspending delivery of some “large scale military systems” to Egypt but will maintain assistance that will help secure its border with Israel. “The United States continues to support a democratic transition and oppose violence as a means of resolving differences within Egypt,” said a statement released Wednesday evening…
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Fast Forward Political Head of Hamas Calls For An End to Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
The head of the political wing of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, implicitly called on the Palestinian Authority Wednesday to cease peace negotiations with Israel immediately, claiming that continuing the talks would endanger the status of Jerusalem. Meshal, who is living in Qatar with other Hamas leaders, was in Ankara this week, where spoke by video to…
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Fast Forward Reform and Conservative Rabbis Dovish on Israel
U.S. rabbis in the Reform and Conservative movements tend to be dovish on Israeli-Palestinian peace policies, according to a study. Asked whether Israel should freeze settlement building, 62 percent of the rabbis agreed to a “great extent” and 18 percent agreed to “some extent,” according to the study commissioned by the Jewish Council for Public…
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Opinion Asher Lopatin Set as Modern Orthodox ‘Bridge’
When I was a kid, my mom told me, “Dress British, think Yiddish.” The credo for Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) now is “Learn ‘Litv-ish,’ daven ‘Hasid-ish,’ act ‘normal-ish.’”, according to Rabbi Daniel Landes, who on Sunday formally installed Rabbi Asher Lopatin as the second president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. The installation ceremony, held at the…
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Opinion Dude, Don’t ‘Boycott Israel’
There’s a new weapon in the anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) arsenal. It’s a viral video by Cleveland-based Orthodox hip-hop artist Ari Lesser, and, based on the more than 18,000 hits it’s gotten since Monday, it’s proving to be pretty powerful. Lesser raps “Boycott Israel,” a catchy reggae number pointing out the hypocrisy of boycotting Israel…
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