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Fast Forward Albuquerque Jewish Deli Hit Again by Vandals
A Jewish deli in Albuquerque was targeted again by anti-Semitic vandalism, for the second time in about two weeks. Mailing labels with anti-Semitic slurs written on them were stuck to the front door of Nosh Deli on Saturday, KOB Eyewitness News 4 in Albuquerque reported. On Sunday, the stickers were pasted on the restaurant and…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Dutch Group Charged for ‘Jews Control Internet’ Link
Dutch anti-racism groups filed criminal charges against a pro-Palestinian organization whose website featured a conspiracy theory about Jewish control of the Internet. The complaint was filed on Feb. 7 against Stop de Bezetting (“Stop the Occupation”) — an organization run by the well-known pro-Palestinian activist Gretta Duisenberg, widow of the first president of the European…
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Fast Forward Rotem Offers Full Apology for ‘Reform Not Jewish’ Remark
Israeli lawmaker David Rotem offered a full apology for reportedly saying the Reform movement “is not Jewish.” At the start of a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on Sunday, Rotem again addressed the remarks, which raised the hackles of religious and other Jewish groups in Israel and the United States. “I had no…
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Fast Forward British Lawmaker Apologizes For Comparing Occupation to Shoah
A British lawmaker apologized for remarks comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labor Party made her apology in a statement on Friday for remarks she made two days earlier to the Parliament. “The debate was about the plight of the Palestinian people and in no…
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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Workers Threaten Strike If Not Paid Full Salary
Doctors at Hadassah Medical Center said they would start a full strike if they do not receive the salary owed to them. Staff members on Sunday threatened to go on a full strike the following day unless they receive the remaining half of their unpaid salaries by midnight, the Times of Israel reported. They received…
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Fast Forward Centrist Party Threatens To Leave Knesset if Draft Dodgers Aren’t Punished
Yair Lapid said his Yesh Atid Party would leave the government if a bill to require haredi Orthodox yeshiva students to serve in the military does not include criminal sanctions for draft dodgers. Lapid, head of the centrist Yesh Atid Party and Finance Minister in the current government, said the criminal sanction should apply to…
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Fast Forward Princeton’s Wilson School Forms Joint Program with Israel’s IDC
Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has established a joint program with Israel’s IDC Herzliya. The joint program with the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya will begin in fall 2014. Under the program, juniors from the Wilson school will enroll in the Middle East specialization offered…
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Fast Forward Pollard’s Long Imprisonment Could Be Fueled by Anti-Semitism, Ex-CIA Chief Says
Former United States’ CIA Director James Woolsey told an Israeli TV news program that anti-Semitism could be part of the reason the U.S. has refused to release spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard. He pointed out in an interview Saturday night with Israel’s Channel 10 that Americans who spied for other countries were freed after much shorter sentences….
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