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Opinion Bibi’s Peace-Talk Halt: Bad Tactic — or Bad Faith?
Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mahmoud Abbas in 2010/Getty Images Israel’s decision today to suspend peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization, in response to yesterday’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement, is really three distinct decisions. One is sensible. The second is understandable if questionable. The third is inexcusable. The first decision is the actual suspension of talks,…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Plan To Attend Limmud Moscow
Over 1,000 people have registered for the Moscow Limmud at a government-owned resort. Participants of the annual Jewish learning conference paid $300-$500 to attend the four-day event, which will open Friday at the Klyasma resort just outside the Russian capital, organizers said. The for-profit complex is owned by the Department for Presidential Affairs of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish VICE News Journalist Held by Pro-Russian Militants in Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday they were holding an American journalist in the city of Slaviansk and the online news site Vice News said it was trying to secure the safety of its reporter Simon Ostrovsky. The self-declared separatist mayor of Slaviansk told a news conference his men were holding an American…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Separatists Vow Fight With ‘Zombie Zionists’
Ukrainian separatists pledged to combat “zombie Zionists” in what appeared to be a promotional video for a newly-launched pro-Russian television channel. The video was one of the first materials shown by KPE TV, which was established on Sunday, the news website tvplus.dn.ua reported Monday. Coming amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks and incidents in Ukraine,…
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Opinion The Real Truth About Those Anti-Semitic Flyers in Donetsk
The world has roared with indignation at the anti-Semitic flyers distributed by masked-men outside a synagogue in Donetsk, in Eastern Ukraine. The flyers ordered local Jews to register with the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, in light of the fact that Jewish leaders in Kiev supported the Ukrainian “junta”. Since the Donetsk People’s Republic controls all…
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News Rabbi Tries To Squelch ‘Register Jews’ Story — But It Won’t Die
(Reuters) — A Ukrainian rabbi whose congregation was the target of an anti-Semitic leaflet that drew global media interest and condemnation from the U.S. government believes it was a hoax and wants to put the matter to rest. But five days after the incident in the restive eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine’s prime minister, anxious…
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Books What Gabriel Garcia Marquez Taught Me
It is a well-known fact that young men under 18 embrace literature primarily to impress the girls they are trying to seduce. You had to congratulate my ambition: A Soviet-Jewish immigrant kid with funny hair and funnier clothes after an American-born, Catholic, Colombian beauty whom I’ll call C. But I had a secret weapon: the…
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Fast Forward Were Ukraine Jews Ordered To ‘Register’ in Restive Donetsk?
Pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine denied any involvement in the circulation of flyers calling on Jews to register with separatists and pay special taxes. The flyers were distributed earlier this week in the city, where pro-Russian separatists led by Denis Pushilin this month took over several government buildings and declared their secession from…
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