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Opinion The Syrian War Started Exactly 7 Years Ago. How Did Israel Get So Involved?
February was one of the bloodiest months since the start of the Syrian civil war, seven years ago this Thursday. All throughout the past month, the Assad regime, along with pro-Iranian militias and Russia, escalated their assault on the rebel-held eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Ghouta, the last pocket of the Syrian insurgency threatening the…
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Fast Forward Why Jews In Russia Say Putin’s Comment Wasn’t Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — When Boruch Gorin, a well-known rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia to the United States, a U.S. Customs officer asked him whether he was Russian. “I said, ‘No, I’m not Russian — I’m Jewish,’” Gorin recalled Monday, 27 years after the exchange at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New…
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Fast Forward Putin Suggests That Jews May Have Been Behind U.S. Election Interference
Vladimir Putin suggested that Jews may have been behind Russia’s documented efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election in an interview with Megyn Kelly Sunday night. Putin’s comments came as he deflected blame for Russian interference in U.S. politics through social media and possible electronic voting machine hacking. He told Kelly he “couldn’t care…
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Fast Forward Putin Says Jews Could’ve Been Behind Election Meddling
Vladimir Putin reportedly has suggested that Jews could have been responsible for meddling in the American presidential election. In a combative new interview with NBC News, the Russian strongman went off script to name possible scapegoats for the campaign to boost then-candidate Donald Trump. “Maybe they’re Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, just with Russian citizenship. Even that…
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Fast Forward Russia Will Get Its First Jewish University, Modeled On Yeshiva U
(JTA) — Russia will receive its first Jewish university next month, the institution’s dean said. Modeled after Yeshiva University in the United States, The Jewish University of Moscow is a private institution with a student body of 200 whose budget comes mostly from donors and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, dean Alexander Lebedev…
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Fast Forward Mother And Daughter Skipped Doomed Russia Plane Flight For Jewish Seminar
(JTA) — A Jewish woman and her daughter who had tickets for an internal flight that crashed near Moscow skipped it to extend their participation in a Jewish studies course, they said. Taliya Samanina and her eldest daughter Malka were scheduled to return Sunday from the Russian capital to their home city of Orsk aboard…
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Opinion Did Saturday’s Clash Prove Iran Deal Skeptics Right?
The clash between Israel and Iran on February 10, following the incursion into Israel’s airspace of an advanced Iranian UAV operated by Iran from Syria, was a new and very worrying development. It signaled the first time that Iran challenged Israel directly and militarily, and from Syrian territory. As far as Israel is concerned, this…
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Opinion How Trump’s Refusal To Confront Russia May End Up Hurting Israel
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The frightening flare-up involving Syria and Iran this past weekend was not just some far away event that concerns only those of us worried about Israel’s security on its volatile northern border. It…
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