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Fast Forward Fifth Earthquake in a Week Rocks Israel’s Golan and Galilee
A minor earthquake struck northern Israel, the fifth in a week. Tuesday morning’s temblor, which measured 3.3 on the Richter Scale and was centered just northwest of the Sea of Galilee, came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered earthquake drills in schools on the same day that two of the earthquakes struck….
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Fast Forward Pope Reaches Out To Jews With Email To Holocaust Lawyer
Pope Francis has continued to reach out to Jews, this time with a personal email to Menachem Z. Rosensaft, an American law professor who deals with Holocaust and genocide issues. Francis’s email was a reflection on the place of God during the Holocaust. It was, Elizabeth Tenety wrote in the Washington Post’s On Faith blog,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Who Planned Bus Bombing Killed in Shoot Out
A wanted Palestinian terrorist, who was behind a 2012 bus bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed in a shoot out with Israeli security officials who were trying to arrest him. Mohamed Aatzi, 28, was killed Tuesday morning during an exchange of gunfire in the West Bank Palestinian town of Bil’in during a joint operation of…
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Fast Forward Toronto Transit Rejects Anti-Israel Ads As ‘Inaccurate and Misleading’
The Toronto Transit Commission rejected four anti-Israel advertisements for being “inaccurate and misleading.” Brad Ross, a spokesman for the transit commission, told JTA on Monday that the ads were turned down because they were “inaccurate and misleading.” The ads were intended to run on buses and subways, as well as the commission’s shelters. Proposed by…
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Fast Forward Republican Presidential Hopefuls Rick Perry and Brian Sandoval To Visit Israel
Govs. Rick Perry of Texas and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Republicans tapped for 2016 presidential runs, are visiting Israel. Perry, who has visited Israel multiple times, was in the country this week to open the Nazareth campus of Texas A&M University. But he also had meetings with Israeli leaders, including on Monday with Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Avraham Zuckerman, Founder of the Bnei Akiva Yeshivas Died
Rabbi Avraham Zuckerman, founder of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva network and a leader in the national-religious movement in Israel, has died. Zuckerman, whose Bnei Akiva network included some 60 institutions, died Saturday night. He was 98. A Lithuania native, he moved to prestate Israel in 1936. Zuckerman studied in Poland and Israel under Rabbi Yaakov…
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Fast Forward Sanctions Relief Could Come for Iran Before Nuclear Program Is Suspended
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew suggested that sanctions relief could come before Iran fully suspends its suspected nuclear weapons program — a tactic rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lew, speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the United States would not ease sanctions until Iran took tangible steps to suspend its nuclear…
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Fast Forward Canada Allocates $800K To Preserve Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Canada has allocated $800,000 to preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. The funding from the federal Citizenship and Immigration department will go to four Jewish organizations in Canada to gather video testimony from survivors. “Canada has been profoundly shaped by approximately 40,000 Holocaust survivors who resettled across our country after World War II,” Jason Kenney,…
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