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Fast Forward Did A Jewish Podiatrist ‘Diagnose’ Bone Spurs That Got Trump Out Of Vietnam?
It’s been unclear for 50 years who drafted the “very strong letter” confirming that President Trump had bone spurs in his heels, allowing him to skirt military service in Vietnam. “You are talking a lot of years,” Trump told The New York Times in 2016, unable to recall the doctor’s name. The answer could be…
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Fast Forward Facebook Accused Of Helping Vietnamese Government Silence Critics
Numerous journalists and human rights activists are accusing Facebook of cooperating with the Vietnamese government to silence critics of the regime, Buzzfeed reported. In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published Monday, over three dozen Vietnamese are saying that Facebook shut down the profiles or removed the posts of noted government critics. The letter comes…
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Fast Forward Israeli Firm Provides Drinking Water For India And Vietnam — From Air
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Israeli company has signed deals to produce drinking water — by extracting it from the air — in India and Vietnam, two countries that have long faced shortages. Water Gen inked an agreement last week with India’s second largest solar company to produce purified water for remote villages in the country. Earlier,…
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Opinion How Pentagon Plans To Whitewash 50th Anniversary of Vietnam
Like apparitions from a forgotten past, Vietnam War-era helicopters swooped down from the sky above Newnan, Georgia, 40 miles from Atlanta last month. The vintage choppers landed at the local high school stadium, where pilots told students about the war in Southeast Asia, which took place before many of the teenagers’ parents and teachers were…
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Fast Forward Vietnam’s First Israeli Film Festival Marks 20 Years of Diplomatic Relations
A film festival in Vietnam will mark 20 years of diplomatic relations with Israel. The five-day festival organized by Israel’s embassy opens Saturday at the National Cinema Centre in Hanoi, moving on Nov. 6 to the BHD Star Cineplex ICON68 in Ho Chi Minh City, the embassy announced on its Facebook page earlier this week….
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Food A Taste for Keeping Kosher
Most of the time, I do what I want. It’s what’s so great about being an adult. I get to eat baked potatoes at midnight and watch terrible television by myself. I get to choose the music I listen to, the clothes I wear, the jobs I keep. I’ve kept kosher in my own way…
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Food The Milky Way: How One Kibbutz is Changing the Milk Industry
Crossposted from Haaretz A series of inventions by a talented member of Afikim made the kibbutz a major player in the global dairy industry. Today, their computerized milking systems can be found in over 50 countries and will soon supply some 40% of Vietnam’s milk consumption. “It’s a fairly trivial sort of love,” she says…
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