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Opinion Rightist Foils Bid to Open Books of Settlement Unit
Tzufim settlement outpost, western Samaria, October 2012 / Getty Images The chairman of the Knesset’s law and legislation committee on Thursday postponed, for the second time in two weeks, a scheduled vote on a bill requiring transparency in government funding of West Bank settlements. The bill has majority support in the committee, whose membership mirrors…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Raise Nearly $600,000 in Shave-a-Thon for ‘Superman Sam’
(JTA) — This week, 73 North American rabbis will be missing something when they go to Shabbat services: their hair. As part of a campaign that raised more than $570,000 for pediatric cancer research, approximately 60 male and female rabbis voluntarily shaved their heads on Tuesday night at the the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American…
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Fast Forward 49% of Israelis Say Accept Reform, Conservative
Nearly half of Israelis surveyed said Israel’s Chief Rabbinate should officially recognize Reform and Conservative Judaism. In the survey of 500 adults, 49 percent “strongly feel that the Chief Rabbinate should officially recognize the Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism,” Walla.com reported, because this “will in turn strengthen the connection with American Jews.” The poll,…
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Opinion Knesset Liberals Block New Settlement Funding
New outpost goes up at Eli, Judea-West Bank, February 2008, courtesy of the World Zionist Organization / Getty Images The settler movement and its right-wing Knesset allies are finding they’ve got their hands full swatting back demands from the center and left — an unusual alliance of Labor, Yesh Atid and Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah —…
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Fast Forward National Council of Jewish Women Fast for Immigration Coincides With Fast of Esther
The National Council of Jewish Women is leading Jewish groups in a day of fasting for immigration reform to coincide with the Fast of Esther. Thursday’s fast, which will include Jewish social justice and Jewish women’s organizations, is part of a monthlong campaign of one-day fasts by women’s groups across the country to “bring increased…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Seeks To Unite Pro-Israel Forces in Multicultural Big Tent
(JTA) — You’ve got your rousing church choir, your multi-denominational trio of rabbis quoting Torah, your montages of Israelis and Palestinians coming together and, above all, your pleas to please, please, please be nice to one another. Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Jew, Christian, black, white, Hispanic – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee wants you…
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Fast Forward Robinson’s Arch Deal Angers Reform and Conservative Leaders
Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements expressed concern over reports that the Israeli government agreed to put a right-wing organization in charge of the Robinson’s Arch area of the Western Wall. In a letter sent Thursday to Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit, who is working on a government plan to make the area an egalitarian…
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Fast Forward Rotem Offers Full Apology for ‘Reform Not Jewish’ Remark
Israeli lawmaker David Rotem offered a full apology for reportedly saying the Reform movement “is not Jewish.” At the start of a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on Sunday, Rotem again addressed the remarks, which raised the hackles of religious and other Jewish groups in Israel and the United States. “I had no…
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