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Fast Forward ‘We are simply ‘mishpucha’: President Rivlin bids farewell to American Jewish leaders
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with Jewish American leaders in New York on Sunday with a message of unity as he embarked on a farewell tour before he leaves office on July 7. “Even if we live many miles apart, across nations and across parties and ideologies, we are family,” Rivlin told some 50 leaders…
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Opinion Israeli President Reuven Rivlin: In an era of divisons, Jews must emphasize our ties to one another
A decade after the founding of the State of Israel, the country’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, approached some 50 of the world’s most renowned Jewish leaders and asked their opinion on one seemingly simple question: “Who is a Jew?” Among those he asked were scholars and the wisest students, all over the world. He…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu accused of breaking his own quarantine rules by having son at Passover Seder
Israel’s prime minister and president were criticized on social media Thursday for having Passover Seders with children who live outside their home – despite strict quarantine measures that banned such gatherings. The Israeli government ordered Jewish citizens to stay in their homes with no exceptions from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning, in order to stop…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Will Get First Shot At Forming Government After Unity Talks Fail
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin announced Wednesday that he was assigning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the responsibility of going first in his attempt to form a governing coalition. Opposition leader Benny Gantz’s Blue and White alliance actually won one more seat in the Knesset than Netanyahu’s Likud party, but more elected Knesset members from all the…
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News How Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Appeals To Diaspora Jews
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wants you to know that he is deeply concerned about the deteriorating relations between his country and Jews around the world, and he plans to do something about it. Which, in a surprising way, sets him apart from the rest of Israel’s political leadership. More surprising still, Rivlin seems to understand…
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Fast Forward Rambo, Dog Who Helped Catch Palestinian Militant, Honored By Israel’s President
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rambo the dog visited the president of Israel, who honored him for his role in capturing a Palestinian terrorist. Rambo, a 5-year-old Belgian Shepherd mix, was injured during an operation earlier this month with the Police counter-terrorism unit to capture the Palestinian man suspected of killing two Jewish-Israeli co-workers at a factory…
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Opinion EXCLUSIVE: President Of Israel’s Call For Justice, Equality And A New Dialogue With The Diaspora
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed one of the most important representative bodies of the Jewish diaspora at Expo Tel Aviv on the morning of October 22. He provided the Forward with the exclusive rights to reproduce the text of the speech he gave to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America at…
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