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Fast Forward Three Israeli Security Officers Injured In Suspected Car-Ramming Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers and a border police officer were injured in a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern city of Acre. The driver of an SUV late on Sunday morning hit a Border Police officer near the city’s central market, and then hit two Israeli soldiers near the city’s train station. The…
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Fast Forward This Teen Had A Gender-Neutral B’nei Mitzvah
(JTA) — When Esther Thorpe came out as gender neutral a year ago, identifying neither as male nor female, Miriam Taylor Thorpe was worried. Esther’s mother already had a child come out as gay and feared that Esther, 14, would have trouble finding a Jewish community that would be accepting and inclusive. The family was…
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Fast Forward Prince William To Visit Israel In Reversal Of Decades-Long Royal Boycott
(JTA) — In a break with what many believe is a decades-long unofficial boycott of Israel, the British Royal House announced what appears to be a state visit to the Jewish homeland by one of its senior-most members, Prince William, whose official title is the Duke of Cambridge. The announcement on March 1 on the…
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Fast Forward Arab Teenagers Arrested For Beating Jewish Boy Outside French Synagogue
(JTA) — Police in France arrested four teenagers who are suspected of beating a Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue north of Paris. The suspects were detained Wednesday night in Montmagny, the Le Parisien daily reported Thursday. Their alleged suspect, 14, was beaten after 8 p.m. outside the…
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Fast Forward Americans In Israel Warned To ‘Keep A Low Profile’ After Embassy Move
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.S. diplomatic mission in Israel urged Americans there to “keep a low profile” following last week’s announcement that the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will open in May. American diplomats in Israel were prohibited from official travel in the West Bank starting Wednesday, the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem announced. The Consulate…
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Fast Forward American-Israeli Teen Accused Of JCC Bomb Threats Indicted For Hate Crimes
(JTA) — The American-Israeli man accused of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States was indicted for federal hate crimes. The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday indicted the 19-year-old alleged computer hacker Michael Kadar, who is under arrest in Israel, they said. The hoax threats to the Jewish community…
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Fast Forward 6 Things To Watch For At AIPAC
(JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference is coming up, running Sunday through Tuesday. AIPAC’s byword is bipartisanship and, as we reported this week, that’s a hard sell in the increasingly polarized Trump era. Still, AIPAC remains the preeminent pro-Israel lobby and its conferences have been a reliable weathervane of where…
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Fast Forward Malcolm Hoenlein Stepping Down As Conference Of Presidents Chief
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is stepping aside after more than three decades of helming the umbrella foreign policy group for the U.S. Jewish community. He will remain with the conference in an as yet undetermined capacity. An email Monday from…
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