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Fast Forward Firebombs Thrown at Dance Club Near Hebrew University
Several firebombs were thrown at a dance club near Hebrew University. The club is located next to the university’s Mount Scopus campus in French Hill in Jerusalem. French Hill is located alongside the eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Isawiya. The club is in an area popular with students. One person was injured in the attack….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Attempts Stabbing Attack in West Bank Settlement
A Palestinian man was arrested while attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. The man, who appeared to be drunk, was carrying a 12-inch knife at the entrance to the community on Friday night, it was announced late Saturday. He told police called to the scene that…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Woman Wins Israel’s ‘Master Chef’
An Arab-Israeli microbiologist from northern Israel won the fourth season of Israel’s reality show “Master Chef.” Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a 33-year-old mother of three, was crowned the winner of Israel’s most-watched television show on Sunday night. She appeared in the final with Ido Kronenberg of the central Israeli city of Savyon, and Meseret Woldimikhal, an…
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Fast Forward French Leader Bans Non-Pork Options from School Menus
Non-pork options for Jewish and Muslim students will no longer be offered in school menus in towns where the far-right National Front party won local elections, the head of the party said. “We will not accept any religious demands in school menus,” National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said in an interview on RTL…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Gaza Targets After Rocket Falls on Ashkelon
Israel struck five targets throughout Gaza hours after a rocket fired from Gaza landed near the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. Direct hits were confirmed on what the Israel Defense Forces called in a statement “terror sites.” The attacks occurred late on Saturday night. Earlier, on Saturday evening, a rocket fired from Gaza landed in…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi Accused of Child Sex Abuse Settles Defamation Suit
A defamation suit launched by a senior Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi has been settled following a public apology by the founder of a victims’ advocate group. Rabbi Abraham Glick was questioned by police in December 2013 regarding explosive claims he sexually abused a student in the 1970s when he was deputy principal of Yeshivah College in Melbourne….
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Fast Forward Dick Cheney Warns of Isolationism in GOP
Dick Cheney told Republican Jews that he was concerned about isolationism in the party. “One of the things that concerns me first about the campaign” for the 2016 GOP presidential nod “is that I’m worried about what I sense to be an increasing strain of isolationism, if I can put it in those terms, in…
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Fast Forward Birthright Trains 200 Educators To Lead Trips
Taglit-Birthright Israel will train Jewish educators from across the United States as Israel trip leaders. The program will train 200 trip leaders each year through a partnership with the iCenter, a North American organization dedicated to Israel education. The application deadline for the first cohort of Taglit Fellows is May 15. The program includes a…
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