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Fast Forward Oracle’s Larry Ellison Is World’s Richest Jew
Oracle’s Larry Ellison is the world’s richest Jew, according to Forbes magazine’s annual world billionaires list for 2013. Ellison was among five Jews in the top 25 on the list released Monday. Seventeen Israelis were among the record 1,426 billionaires – 200 more than in 2012. Ellison was No. 5 overall with a net worth…
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Fast Forward Oberlin College Scraps Classes Amid Wave of Anti-Semitic and Racist Hatred
Oberlin College canceled classes to convene a “day of solidarity” following a series of racial and anti-Semitic incidents. Classes at the school in northern Ohio were suspended on Monday after someone wearing a Ku Klux Klan-like hood and robe was seen walking on campus, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. “This event, in addition to the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Plans To Ask Barack Obama To Free Jonathan Pollard During Israel Trip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ask President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard while Obama was in Israel. Netanyahu met Monday with Pollard’s wife, Esther, in advance of Obama’s visit scheduled for later this month. “The time has long since come for Jonathan to go free,” Netanyahu said, according to a statement…
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Fast Forward Amid ‘Jewish List’ Fears, Hungary Jews Set Up Watchdog To Track Anti-Semitism
Hungary’s Jewish communities have created a watchdog organization on anti-Semitism modeled after the Anti-Defamation League. The new Budapest-based, non-governmental entity was recently registered in Hungary as Action and Protection Foundation, or TEV by its Hungarian-language acronym, and is set to have six employees and about 20 volunteers by June, according to Daniel Bodnar, chairman of…
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Fast Forward Two Men Indicted in Rash of Firebombings at New Jersey Synagogues
A New Jersey grand jury indicted two men charged with firebombing several synagogues in the state. Aakash Dalal and Anthony Graziano could face life in prison if convicted on all 30 counts in the indictment handed down last Friday. Dalal and Graziano, who were 19 at the time of the crimes in 2012, are charged…
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Fast Forward Amid Jewish Settler Complaints, Israel Sets Separate Busses for West Bank Palestinians
An Israeli bus company will offer special bus lines to transport Palestinian passengers from the West Bank into central Israel. The institution of the special lines by the Afikim bus company is meant to ease the overcrowding of bus lines that go into Jewish settlements, the Transportation Ministry told Ynet. Palestinians cannot enter Jewish settlements….
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Fast Forward Jewish School That Refused to Play Hoops on Shabbat Lost State Championship
Beren Academy, which made international headlines last year with its battle to avoid a forfeit in the Texas state boys’ basketball tournament over a Sabbath scheduling conflict, lost a quadruple overtime game in the state semifinals. Beren lost by one-point to Boerne Geneva after a last-second layup to win the game rimmed in and out….
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Fast Forward Bills Targeting Iran Introduced in Time for AIPAC Conference
Lawmakers in Congress introduced bills in time for AIPAC’s annual policy conference that would tighten Iran sanctions and back Israel should it strike that country’s suspected nuclear program. A bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the chairman of its Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel…
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