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News Halva brownies and miso shakshuka: The UAE’s first major kosher kitchen opens for business
The gleaming new industrial kitchen on the grounds of one the Arab world’s busiest airport wouldn’t be remarkable except for one fact: it’s kosher. Kosher Arabia at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport is a registered producer of kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, set up in partnership with Emirates Flight Catering and CCL Holdings….
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Fast Forward Jewish Family Scores $11K Windfall Getting Bumped From Pre-Passover Flights
As airlines overbooked flights before Passover (and for good measure, Easter, too), one Jewish family in New York made off like bandits from the travel chaos – giving up seats on two flights in exchange for $11,000 in compensation. Laura Begley Bloom – along with her husband and daughter – were set to fly Delta…
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Breaking News Delta Flight Delayed After Haredim Refuse to Sit Next to Opposite Sex
A Delta Airlines flight to Israel was delayed after haredi Orthodox men and women deplaned rather than sit next to members of the opposite sex. The flight Monday night from New York’s Kennedy Airport arrived more than an hour late on Tuesday afternoon due to the incident, Haaretz reported. After the haredi passengers decided to…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Defends Israel Flight Ban as ‘Safety’ Measure
President Obama said the Federal Aviation Administration ban on Israeli flights was based purely on safety considerations. “The initial ban that was imposed by the FAA was based on Israel needing to show us that in fact it was safe for commercial airlines to fly in,” Obama said Thursday in an interview with CNBC. “They…
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Breaking News Israel Flight Ban Lifted as Gaza Toll Keeps Spiralling
Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a U.S. ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700. A truce between the Jewish state and Hamas Palestinian fighters remained elusive despite intensive mediation bids. Palestinians said…
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Breaking News Why Airline Bans Are Such a Blow to Israel
(JTA) — When the Federal Aviation Administration announced a ban Tuesday on U.S. carriers flying to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, prompting a slew of similar decisions by European carriers, the flight cancellations were more than just a major inconvenience to thousands of passengers on 160-plus canceled flights. They were a distressing reality check…
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Israel News American Authorities Extend Flight Ban to Israel for Another Day
American authorities extended a ban on flights to Tel Aviv’s airport for an additional day Wednesday. The widening conflict in Israel forced most airlines to scrap flights Tuesday to Tel Aviv over rockets from Gaza — dealing a major blow to Israel’s tourism industry. The Federal Aviation Administration suspended all U.S.-based flights to Israel Tuesday…
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