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Fast Forward Prominent professors urge Columbia University to move ahead with Tel Aviv outpost
The university's Global Centers are research hubs and not political, argue big-name faculty in open letter
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Fast Forward Madrid offers to partner with Tel Aviv after Barcelona severs ‘twin city’ ties
The offer comes after Barcelona's mayor broke a 25-year partnership, citing Israeli "apartheid."
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Culture The Michelin guide is coming to Israel. What took so long?
The French food guide rejected previous campaigns to cover Tel Aviv
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News ‘The synagogue is in the street’: On Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv shows another side of itself
Even the secular appreciate the 25 hours of calm
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Fast Forward Israeli museum shutters its doors after 47 artists ask to remove their work
A museum near Tel Aviv, which first opened nearly 35 years ago, has ceased operations after failing to reach an agreement with 47 artists who accused the museum — and the city — of censorship, and demanded that their work be removed. The artists had asked The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art to reverse…
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Yiddish World Popular Tel Aviv organization, “Yung Yidish”, forced to shut by December 5
According to a verdict by the Tel Aviv Local Affairs Court, the popular Yiddish cultural center and library,”Yung Yidish”, located inside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, will be forced to close its doors by December 5, 2021. The eviction is part of a grand plan by the city to shut down the huge station…
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Culture Raves in the desert, secret parties in mansions — COVID couldn’t stop Israel’s underground party scene
In Israel, #hotvaxxedsummer is already underway; all restrictions have been lifted, bars are packed and parties are sold out. Hookup culture has come back to life, and people are beyond grateful to be out of their houses, finally seeing their friends and meeting new people. But not everyone actually stopped seeing people in the first…
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Culture What will #hotvaxxedsummer look like? Israel beat us there
The U.S. is finally reopening. Nightclubs will soon be back in full swing, and people are predicting another Roaring ’20s era of debauchery and indulgence — dubbed, at least online, #hotvaxxedsummer. But not everyone is so excited. Some are anxious about how it will feel to be in a crowd after over a year of…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Light One Candle” — in Yiddish
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Culture How a wedding in Oklahoma taught a group of police officers and SWAT team members to care about Judaism and Israel
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Fast Forward Germany’s antisemitism czar says slogans like ‘From the river to the sea’ should be illegal
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