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Fast Forward Netanyahu Won’t Fight Sequester Cut in U.S. Aid
Israel will not object to a planned five-percent cut in the annual military aid package from the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said. Under the sequester, the across-the-board cuts mandated by 2011 legislation, Washington is set to cut more than $150 million from the annual $3.1 billion package to Israel. According to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teacher Questioned in Dutch School Abuse
Dutch police asked Israel for help in investigating the actions of a Tel Aviv teacher suspected of molesting pupils at an Orthodox Jewish school near Amsterdam. The man, identified only as Ephraim S., immigrated last year to Israel after being fired from his job as a teacher at the Cheider school in Buitenveldert near Amsterdam,…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi Placed on House Arrest for Graft
Police placed Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, under house arrest following a 10-hour interrogation on corruption allegations. According to The Jerusalem Post, police ordered Metzger not to leave his home for five days at the end of his interrogation Thursday. Investigators from the National Fraud Squad raided his home and offices as part of…
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Fast Forward Rand Paul Has ‘Pleasant’ Meeting With GOP Jews
Sen. Rand Paul had a reconciliatory meeting with the Republican Jewish Coalition in his latest bid to forge ties with the pro-Israel community. “There were some pleasant surprises,” Matthew Brooks, the Republican Jewish Coalition’s director, told the Washington Post’s Thursday edition, speaking of the meeting last week between Paul (R-Ky.) and the RJC board. “While…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Chief Rabbi Interrogated for Pocketing Donations
Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger is being interrogated on suspicion that he took hundreds of thousands of shekels meant for nongovernmental organizations. Metzger’s home and office were raided on Thursday, according to Israeli reports, and Israeli Police confiscated documents and property. Metzger was brought to the National Fraud Unit for interrogation on accepting bribes,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Mar Warsaw Ghetto Memorial
Unknown vandals painted “Jude Raus” at the entrance of a memorial to the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The words, which mean “Jews Out,” were discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound in Warsaw. The monument to Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the uprising, as well as to the rest of the uprising’s fighters, is located…
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Fast Forward Ku Klux Klansman Offered To Make Radiation ‘Death Ray’ for Jewish Groups
An alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan tried to sell a mobile device to New York Jewish groups that “could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies.” Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, was arrested Tuesday following a more than one-year-long FBI sting operation, accused of developing a remote-controlled, truck-mounted device that would deliver lethal…
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Fast Forward Sharon Stone Says ‘I Love Israel’
Actress Sharon Stone visited the pediatric AIDS unit at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. Stone, a longtime activist to find an AIDS cure, met privately on Tuesday with each of the sick children, as well as hospital staff, including Dan Engelhard, the head of Hadassah’s pediatric AIDS unit and pediatrics infectious diseases. “I love…
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