Ami Eden (JTA)
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Fast Forward Vanderbilt U Announces Scholarship in Memory of Tel Aviv Terror Victim Taylor Force
(JTA) — Vanderbilt University has named a new scholarship in honor of the graduate student killed in a terrorist stabbing attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month. The Taylor Force Memorial Scholarship was announced by Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos on Friday during a campus memorial service for Force, an MBA student at the Nashville, Tennessee, university…
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Fast Forward Miep Gies, Hid Anne Frank, Dead at 100
Miep Gies, the woman who recovered Anne Frank’s diary, has died at 100. Gies, who died Monday in the Netherlands, was the last surviving member of the small group that hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis. After the arrest of the Frank family by the Gestapo in 1944, Gies returned to the…
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Fast Forward Polls Show Growing Divide Between Israel, U.S.
New polling data suggests that recent U.S.-Israeli policy disputes over settlements and Palestinian statehood have hurt the Netanyahu government’s standing in the United States and the Obama administration’s popularity in Israel. A Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll found that only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis believe that the Obama administration is pro-Israel – a drop…
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