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Fast Forward Damage at 2,000-Year-Old Syrian Synaogogue Not as Bad as Reported
Theft and shelling have damaged a 2,000 year-old synagogue in Damascus, one of the oldest in the world, Syrian government and opposition activist sources said on Monday. Syria’s historic monuments have increasingly become a casualty of the civil war has killed more than 70,000 people. Parts of Aleppo’s medieval stone-vaulted souk have been reduced to…
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Fast Forward Israel Could Withstand Syrian Chemical Weapons Says Israeli General
Israel could withstand any attack involving Syrian chemical weapons, an Israeli general said on Friday, adding it was improbable that Damascus would order such a strike. The fate of Syria’s reputed chemical arsenal is a focus of international concern. Israel has threatened to go to war to prevent Islamist militants or Hezbollah guerrillas in neighbouring…
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Food A Very Syrian Passover with Cookbook Author Jennifer Abadi
Every Jewish cook has their Passover mainstays, which are usually divided down a line: Ashkenazi or Sephardic, depending on their family’s country of origin. On a recent Tuesday morning we decided to cross over and try our hands at making traditional Syrian Passover foods. Our teacher was Jennifer Abadi, author of “A Fistful of Lentils:…
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Culture Teenage Girl Pounds Robber
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 Eighteen-year-old Esther Goldberg, a pretty girl who lives at 20 Pitt Street…
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Fast Forward Rogue Syria Rebels Kidnap Golan U.N. Peacekeepers
Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pull back from a rebel-held village which has seen heavy recent fighting. The capture was announced in rebel videos posted on the Internet and confirmed on Wednesday by the United…
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Opinion Will Obama Israel Trip Be Lapid Love-In?
Is Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel going to turn into a Yair Lapid love-in? The Israeli daily Yedioth Araronoth, suggested in its editorial yesterday that Obama decided to come because Netanyahu is currently weak — because of the staggering success of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. The administration is working on the premise that…
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Fast Forward Obama Not Bringing New Peace Plan to Israel
President Obama’s visit to Israel will focus on Syria and Iran, and he will not initiate new peace moves, the White House said. “This is a trip the president looks forward to making that is timed in part because we have here obviously a second term for the president, a new administration and a new…
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Opinion Syria Defense Belt Eyed To Defend Golan Heights
Israeli news media are citing a London Sunday Times report that claims Israel is considering establishing a security zone along its border with Syria to protect itself against attacks by jihadist forces following the expected fall of the Assad regime. The zone would extend 10 miles into Syria and would have two infantry brigades and…
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