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Culture Hippie, hero, traitor, spy — the baffling legacy of Jonathan Pollard
A documentary series tries to shed light on the many contradictions of the man who spied on America for Israel
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Culture In a delightful new Purim film, Esther is a secret agent in Argentina
In its long history, the Purim story has had its fair share of reboots. Because, in every generation, a new Haman arrives to oppress us, that genocidal adviser has worn the face of Hitler and, when Stalin suffered a stroke on Purim, averting his own dire plans for Jews, he wore a different mustache entirely….
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Culture The ‘Fauda’ follow-up is a messy mystery that will probably be a runaway hit
“Who would you, Lior Raz, like to have as your love interest in our new series?” Avi Issacharoff, the co-creator of “Hit & Run,” probably asked one day early on in the show’s development. Raz’s response, one imagines, was probably: “A member of the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv. And make her considerably younger….
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News Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard goes free, capping 35 years of American-Jewish activism and ambivalence
Jonathan Pollard, the convicted spy embraced by some Jews as a patriot for their people and rejected by others as a stain on it, is a free man. The U.S. Parole Commission notified him today that it had terminated his parole and lifted the restrictions that were keeping him to within certain sections of Manhattan….
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News Supporters of Jonathan Pollard, convicted spy, hope Trump will commute his sentence
Supporters and friends of Jonathan Pollard, the American Jew who served Israel as a spy, are hoping that before he leaves office, President Donald Trump will enable Pollard to emigrate to the Jewish state by commuting his sentence or pardoning him. Pollard pleaded guilty in 1986 to conspiracy to commit espionage in connection with providing…
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Fast Forward Trump: I Don’t Believe Reports That Israel Is Spying On United States
(JTA) — President Donald Trump does not believe reports that Israel is spaying on the United States, he said. Trump’s remark Thursday was about a report that Israel was likely behind the placement of devices in the vicinity of the White House that can capture cellphone calls. “I don’t believe that. No, I don’t believe…
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Fast Forward Israel Spied On White House, But Trump Did Nothing To Respond: Report
(JTA) — Cell-phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, D.C. likely were planted by Israel, Politico reported. The article published online on Thursday, cited three unnamed former senior officials that Politico said have “knowledge of the matter.” Unlike other times when flagrant incidents of foreign spying…
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