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Fast Forward Israel Allowed To Detain Illegal Immigrants for a Year Before Trial, Says New Law
Israel’s Knesset passed legislation that will allow the state to detain illegal migrants without trial for one year. The legislation, an amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law, passed its final readings in the Israeli parliament late Monday night by a vote of 30-15 following a lengthy discussion. It also allows the state to operate a detention…
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Fast Forward Kerry To Return To Israel for Second Time in Two Weeks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will return this week to Jerusalem and Ramallah, his second visit in two weeks. Kerry will discuss Iran and the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations during a meeting Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. State Department Jen Psaki said in a statement Monday. He will discuss the peace negotiations…
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Fast Forward Former Hotel Security Guard Pleads Guilty To Defacing Torah
A former hotel security guard pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge for defacing a Jewish school’s Torah scroll and prayer books. Justin Shawn Baker, 25, admitted during a plea hearing Monday in a Jackson, Tenn. court to violating the civil rights of students of the Margolin Hebrew Academy’s Cooper Yeshiva High School of…
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Fast Forward Skeletons From Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Discovered
Archeologists working in the Krasinski Garden in Warsaw discovered fragments of two human skeletons that likely were buried there during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The park is located near the site of the former ghetto, but was never part of the ghetto itself. The archeologists are searching through the archive of the Jewish socialist party…
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Fast Forward Independent Rabbinical Court Addressing Agunot To Be Launched Next Year
A new independent rabbinical court to address the issue of agunot, so-called “chained women” whose husbands refuse to give them a religious writ of divorce, will be launched next year. The announcement of the court, or beit din, was made Sunday at the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance conference in New York. Rabbi Simcha Krauss of…
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Fast Forward Bob Filner Sentenced to Home Confinement and Three Years Probation
Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who resigned amid sexual harassment accusations, was sentenced to three months of home confinement and three years probation for acts against three women. Filner, 71, was sentenced Monday in state Superior Court after pleading guilty to the charges against him in October in exchange for a plea bargain that…
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Fast Forward U.K. Warning Business Community To Steer Clear of With West Bank
The British government is warning the business community to steer clear of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. New recommendations noting there are “clear risks” and the United Kingdom does “not offer support to such activity” were published last week on the U.K. Trade and Investment website in the section titled Overseas Business Risk–Israel. The…
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Fast Forward Israel, Jordan and P.A. Sign ‘Two Seas Canal’ Water Pipeline Agreement
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement to lay a pipeline between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea that will provide all three with fresh water. Establishing a project called the Two Seas Canal, the pact was signed Monday afternoon at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., according to Israel’s Ministry of…
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