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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Offers Emergency Aid To Ukraine’s Jewish Community
The Jewish Agency said it would offer immediate emergency assistance to Ukraine’s Jewish community and will help secure the country’s Jewish institutions. Saturday evening’s announcement by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky came hours after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev and the Ukrainian parliament announced new presidential elections for late May. Violent protests led to…
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Fast Forward Greece Seeks to Lift Immunity From Remaining Golden Dawn Parliament Members
Greek prosecutors asked parliament to remove from immunity nine additional lawmakers from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. If parliament grants Thursday’s request, all 18 of the party’s lawmakers in the 300-member parliament will face charges, part of Greece’s widespread crackdown on a party that prosecutors describe as a criminal organization. Among the nine lawmakers who…
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Fast Forward Moroccan Nationalists Protest Exhibit on Sephardic Jews in Tangier
Moroccan nationalists protested the opening of an exhibition on Moroccan Jews in Tangier. At least 150 people gathered Feb. 18 in front of the venue where the Spanish government’s cultural Cervantes Institute opened an exhibition entitled “The Spanish Jews in Morocco and their Diasporas,” the Spanish news agency EFE reported. The protest in the northern…
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Fast Forward Greece Mulls New Crackdown on Neo-Nazis
Greek prosecutors asked parliament to remove from immunity nine additional lawmakers from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. If parliament grants Thursday’s request, all 18 of the party’s lawmakers in the 300-member parliament will face charges, part of Greece’s widespread crackdown on a party that prosecutors describe as a criminal organization. Among the nine lawmakers who…
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News Israel Envoy Defends Belarus Dictatorship
Israel’s foreign ministry disavowed statements by its ambassador in Minsk, who compared Palestinian terrorists to political prisoners in Belarus. The statement by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was published in Polish last week and concerned remarks that Ambassador Yosef Shagal made during an interview aired on Feb. 6 by the Russian RTVi television station, in…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank Books Vandalized in Japan
More than 100 copies of Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” have been vandalized in public libraries in Japan’s capital Tokyo. Pages have been ripped from at least 265 copies of the diary and other related books, Japanese officials told the BBC on Thursday. It is not clear who is behind the vandalism, they…
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Fast Forward AJWS Wants U.S. To Recall Envoys Pulled From Gay-Ban Uganda and Nigeria
The American Jewish World Service called on the Obama administration to pull ambassadors from Uganda and Nigeria because of what it says are escalating anti-gay and other repressive measures by those governments. In a statement, AJWS asked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday to bring ambassadors from those two African countries back to…
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Fast Forward Bertrand Russell’s 1937 ‘Dinner With Hitler’ Letter Shown at Tolerance Museum
The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles purchased at auction a 1937 letter in which British philosopher Bertrand Russell says that the British should invite Hitler to dinner rather than fight the Nazis. The museum is part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The letter was purchased for $4,000 at an auction last month in London,…
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