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News IDF To Remove Forces From 22 Towns On Northern and Southern Borders
The Israel Defense Forces will remove soldiers from 22 towns located on the country’s northern and southern borders. The IDF’s Operations Branch made the decision to withdraw from the communities near the borders with Lebanon, the Sinai and the Gaza Strip, according to reports. It will go into effect in October. IDF officials told the…
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Fast Forward Rabbi-to-Stars Philip Berg Dies at 86
Rabbi Philip Berg, who brought the teachings of Kabbalah to a celebrity following that included Madonna and Britney Spears, has died. Berg, the founder of the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, died Monday at a hospital in that city. He had been ill since suffering a stroke in 2004. Berg was 86. His followers also…
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Fast Forward German Publishing Giant Kills Nazi-Glorifying Magazine
A German publisher said it would drop a magazine which was seen to glorify the action of troops involved in the Holocaust. The Hamburg-based Bauer Media Group said Sept. 13 it would stop publishing Der Landser, a magazine which has survived numerous challenges since being founded in the 1950s by a veteran of the German…
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Fast Forward BBC Retracts Claim Arab States Started Yom Kippur War in ‘Preemptive’ Attack
The BBC has changed its characterization of Syria and Egypt’s 1973 attack against Israel as being “preemptive.” The adjective appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Learning Zone, a platform designed to offer historical information to students, and was removed Tuesday following questions by JTA. “During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Egypt and Syria acted preemptively…
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Fast Forward Joshua Frydenberg, Jewish Rising Star, Joins New Australian Government
The sole Jewish member of the new Australian government was appointed to a junior minister position. Joshua Frydenberg was promoted to parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister on Monday by the newly elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Abbott’s Liberal Party won the Sept. 7 election in a landslide over the Labor Party, ending its six-year…
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Fast Forward Lax Government Oversight Cited As Catalyst For Willie Rapfogel Scandal
Lax government oversight may have enabled the scandal involving William Rapfogel, the former executive director of the Metropolitan Council for Jewish Poverty, according to The New York Times. Nonprofit organizations may be overseen by multiple government agencies, creating “potential for some problems to be missed,” H. Tina Kim, a New York City deputy comptroller, was…
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Fast Forward Jewish Umbrella Group Urges Lawmakers To Avoid Government Shutdown
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs is circulating a letter on Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to support a federal budget agreement and avoid a government shutdown. The two-page letter being circulated this week asks Congress to quickly approve a budget that would remove sequester cuts and restore funds to such safety net programs as Supplemental…
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Fast Forward ‘Homeland’ Pulls Out of Filming in Israel, Citing Syria Conflict
Parts of the third season of the television series “Homeland” will not be filmed in Israel as originally planned. The filming was switched to Morocco due to concerns over the uncertain situation in Syria, according to Ynet. The show’s producers in Israel were told of the decision over the weekend, the news site reported, citing…
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