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Breaking News Arab Cameraman Strip-Searched at U.S. Ambassador’s July Fourth Party in Israel
The U.S.-funded Alhurra network said Thursday that one of its cameramen was interrogated and strip-searched by Israeli security men while covering a July 4 party at the U.S. ambassador’s residence near Tel Aviv. The Arab satellite channel had coordinated with the Israeli prime minister’s office to cover the event on behalf of the international media….
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News Young Jews Trying To Help Egypt Face Obstacles — Abroad and at Home
The circumstances of Andrew Driscoll Pochter’s death were just emerging when the questions began: What was a Jewish boy doing in Egypt? How could he have been naive enough to get involved in a protest? Why wasn’t he in Israel instead? Pochter, raised in a Jewish home in Chevy Chase, Md., active in Hillel at…
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Culture Lower East Side Physician Arrested for Dealing Cocaine and Opium
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, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 years ago 1913 Abraham Glickstein, a well-known physician who resides on Manhattan’s Lower…
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Breaking News $20K-a-Kidney Israeli Smuggling Ring Busted
An international organ trafficking ring that sold kidneys to patients in Israel and Eastern Europe was broken up by Costa Rica police and Interpol. The ring also worked with Israeli doctors who have not yet been named, according to Haaretz. Israel’s Health Ministry denied any knowledge of the organ trafficking ring. The Costa Rican Attorney…
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Israel News Billionaire Bets on Arabs of Nazareth To Advance Dream for Israel
He’s just made billions selling the company that he started in his backyard to Warren Buffett, so you may think that it’s time for 86-year-old Stef Wertheimer to take it easy. Instead, Wertheimer, one of Israel’s wealthiest citizens, is today putting most of his energy into the Arab town of Nazareth. There, in the presence…
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Israel News Even Middle-Class Arabs Get Cold Shoulder From Jews in Israeli Town
The founding ethos of this town in the Lower Galilee, adjoining the ancient city of Nazareth, hits the visitor upon arrival. The town looks down directly on Nazareth, a large Arab-populated city. The two municipalities are divided by Zionism Street, a road decked with large Israeli flags — the type normally seen on a border…
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Opinion Everyday ‘Apartheid’ and the Liberal Dream
The following items appeared in the Israeli media this month: Superland, an amusement park outside Tel Aviv, makes a policy of reserving separate days for Israeli Arab high school classes and separate ones for Israeli Jewish classes. A Jewish community pool in the Negev refused to admit a group of Bedouin children with cancer because,…
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Israel News Amusement Park Discrimination May Be Tip of Iceberg in Israel
Politicians have voiced outrage following revelations that an amusement park in central Israel segregated students from Jewish and Arab schools by having them attend on separate days. But civil rights activists say this discrimination is more common than many realize. After learning that, for years, Superland in Rishon Lezion has been keeping schools from different…
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