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Fast Forward StandWithUs Counters Anti-Israel Ads With Vancouver Transit Campaign
An Israel advocacy group has launched a transit campaign in opposition to anti-Israel ads on Vancouver buses and light rail stations. StandWithUs, a right-leaning Israel advocacy group, began running two advertisements on Monday meant to combat the ads put up by the Palestine Awareness Committee. The pro-Israel ads include one series of three maps purporting…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Ovadia Highway Coming to Jerusalem
A new highway into Jerusalem will be named for the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas party. Route 16, which will run near the neighborhoods of western Jerusalem and pass through Har Nof, where Yosef lived, will be named for the former chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel who died last week,…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank Video Game Allows Players To Recreate Day in Life of Holocaust Victim
An interactive video game will allow users to relive a day in the life of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank. The focus of the game, simply titled “Anne Frank,” is the day in October 1942 that the teenage Anne wrote in her diary about her fears that a worker was about to discover the family’s hiding…
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Fast Forward Women of Wall Fouders Reject Leader’s Compromise on Prayer at Western Wall
Ten longtime members of Women of the Wall are protesting the organization’s recent decision to accept a spot at the Robinson’s Arch area next to the Western Wall Plaza. In a public statement Friday, the protesting members said the Women of the Wall board betrayed the group’s fundamental mission with its decision earlier in the…
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Fast Forward Facebook Buys 3-Year-Old Israeli Start-Up Onavo for Up to $200M
Facebook has acquired an Israeli start-up company for between $100 million and $200 million. Tel Aviv-based Onavo, a mobile analytics company founded in 2010, announced the purchase on Monday. The company will remain based in Israel, and its Tel Aviv office “will become Facebook’s new Israeli office,” the company said in a blog post published…
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Fast Forward 10 Jews Arrested for Praying on Temple Mount
Ten Jewish men were removed by police from the Temple Mount after praying and singing at the holy site. Jerusalem Police detained the men on Monday morning, and then closed the Temple Mount to visitors. The men reportedly prayed and bowed on the Temple Mount, and then sang “Hatikva,” waved and Israeli flag and danced….
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Fast Forward Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Memorial Draws 40,000
Some 40,000 people participated in a memorial for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem at the end of the mourning period. The memorial on Sunday evening at the grave site of the Shas party spiritual leader marked the end of the seven-day shiva period for the one-time Sephardic chief rabbi, who died on Oct. 7 at…
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Fast Forward Turkish Students Make Nazi Salute at Majdanek
Two students from Turkey were arrested in Poland for using a Nazi salute on a group of Israeli students visiting the Majdanek concentration camp. The Turkish students were taken into custody in Poland. The incident last week was reported in the Turkish media on Friday, according to Today’s Zaman. The students reportedly made the Nazi…
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