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News Syria Refugee Crisis Spurs Surge of Giving
With 12 million Syrians forced from their homes in the past four years, the refugee crisis has hit levels not seen since World War II. For Jewish charities in the field, September 3 was a turning point. That was the day multiple media outlets published photographs of a 3-year-old Syrian boy named Aylan Kurdi, showing…
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Fast Forward Israel Now Neutral on Ousting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
Israel is no longer taking a public position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s prospects of staying in power, its defense minister said on Tuesday, citing the opposing goals of the United States and Russia as they intervene in the civil war. Seeing enemies on all sides of the insurgency that erupted in the neighboring Arab…
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Fast Forward Arab Israeli Daredevil Paraglides Over Golan Into Syria
With a propeller on his back and suspended from a parachute, a 23-year-old Arab Israeli may have blindsided Israeli surveillance by sheer audacity when he buzzed across the fortified northern frontier into Syria at the weekend. The identity of the man, described by a relative as an enthusiast of extreme sports and a moderately pious…
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Fast Forward Israel Claims Citizen Entered Syria Using Paraglider Over Golan Heights
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier. Israeli media gave the man’s age as 23 and quoted investigators as speculating that he sought to join Islamic State or…
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Fast Forward Is Russia’s Middle East Intervention a Hidden Boon for Israel?
(JTA) — As a defiant Russia again flexes military muscles in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Cold War analogies are, perhaps, unavoidable. The deployment last month of Russian warplanes in Syria laid bare Moscow’s readiness to use force to punish leaders who would challenge its authority — as in Ukraine, from which it annexed…
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Fast Forward Russian Military Delegation to Visit Israel to Discuss Syria Operations
A senior Russian military delegation will visit Israel on Tuesday for two days of talks on how the countries can avoid accidentally clashing while operating in Syria, an Israeli military officer said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Sept. 21 to set up teams as Moscow steps up military…
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News Jews Push Washington to Admit More Syrian Refugees, Even as Some Worry About Backlash
At the end of her Rosh Hashanah sermon, Rabbi Elyse Frishman turned to congregants and asked them to take out their cell phones and start dialing. An unusual scene at the sanctuary, and even more so during a High Holiday service, but Frishman explained that on this day, the cell phone would serve as a…
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Fast Forward Russia’s Syria Gambit Forces U.S. To Accept Assad for Now
Russia’s military buildup in Syria appears to have forced U.S. President Barack Obama to two unpalatable conclusions: He cannot ignore Moscow, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may survive for some time. Russian President Vladimir Putin, isolated after his annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, secured a meeting with Obama on Monday…
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