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News What Will Happen Now That Hamas Has Captured Israeli Soldier Hadar Goldin
(JTA) — Now that Hamas appears to have achieved one of the central goals of its confrontation with Israel, the capture of a live Israeli soldier, a number of things are likely to follow. Hamas is going to trumpet its operation as a success, and that assertion will reach receptive ears among Palestinians. With thousands…
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The Schmooze Why Mayim Bialik Supports Israel
Mayim Bialik has been active on social media since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, sending thoughts and prayers to her friends and family in Israel. shabbat shalom, israel. — Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 11, 2014 apparently wishing a happy sabbath to my family and friends and people in israel constitutes being a baby killer…….
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Breaking News Israel and Hamas Agree to 72-Hour Ceasefire in Gaza, To Begin Friday
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire in their conflict in the Gaza Strip starting on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. The ceasefire will begin at 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) on Friday, Aug. 1, they said in a joint statement. The…
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The Schmooze Jewish Harry Potter Raises Galleons For Gaza War
Happy birthday to the Boy Who Lived! July 31 marks the day that Harry Potter — and his creator, J.K. Rowling — first entered the world. Harry is a loyal Gryffindorian, a matchless wizard, a native Parseltongue speaker, and…a Jew? Jewish Israelis have claimed the wizard wonder boy and his legacy on the “Jewish Harry…
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The Schmooze Joan Rivers Has Advice for Israel: Nose Jobs
Getty Images Joan Rivers is trading in her “Fashion Police” badge for some international relations credentials. The comedian, who just last week was seen passionately defending Israel to a TMZ reporter, is at it again. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 on Wednesday, Rivers had some words of advice for Israel’s PR team. “We…
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Opinion Open Letter to Penelope Cruz From Her Jewish Doppelganger
Inna Vernikov, left; Penelope Cruz, right / Courtesy of the author; Instagram Dear Penelope, You are a remarkable actress and a strikingly beautiful model. I have been following your successful career for years. Your performance in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” was an inspiring work of art. In fact, I am often complimented on just how much…
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The Schmooze Penelope Cruz Just Wants Peace in Gaza
Getty Images Penelope Cruz didn’t exactly say “I didn’t know what the heck I was doing,” but she did issue a clarification to an open letter — written by husband Javier Bardem — which she signed along with nearly 100 Spanish actors and filmmakers. The original letter called for an end to “the genocide perpetrated by…
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Opinion Actually, George Orwell Would Support Israel
Illustration by Yoni Weiss In these pages, Daniel May’s “What Would George Orwell Say About the Gaza War?” used totalitarianism’s great enemy to criticize democratic Israel’s justified struggle against totalitarian Hamas. May’s argument, misreading Israel’s self-defense justification, and echoing Hamas’s propaganda points, peppered with clever quotations from George Orwell, was itself Orwellian. Deciding how dead…
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