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Fast Forward Budapest U. Suspends Student Council Over Suspected Listing of Jews
The rector of the University of Budapest reportedly suspended a student council suspected listing of Jews and other minorities. Barna Mezey on Feb. 21 ordered the HOK student council of the humanities to cease all its activities following reports that its members broke the law when they compiled lists on freshmen containing personal information on…
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Fast Forward Kibbutzniks Plough a Portrait of Peres Into Field
Members of Kibbutz Tel Yosef in northern Israel ploughed a portrait of Israeli President Shimon Peres into a field of wheat in honor of his 90th birthday. The enormous portrait and the figure 90, created ahead of his Aug. 2 birthday, covers 25 hectares, or 61 acres, in the Jezreel Valley. The kibbutz children gathered…
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Fast Forward Israel Mulling Apology for ‘Operational Errors’ on Mavi Marmara
Israel reportedly may apologize to Turkey for “operational errors” during its fatal raid on a 2010 Turkish aid flotilla to Gaza ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Turkish newspaper Radikal on Feb. 20 reported that the partial apology may have been the subject of secret talks between Turkey and Israel. Radikal…
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Fast Forward Riots Break Out in Jerusalem, West Bank Over Palestinian Prisoners
Palestinian protesters reportedly fired flares and hurled stones at Israeli troops in the Old City in Jerusalem amid violent protests in the West Bank. Several dozen Palestinians began hurling rocks at troops stationed outside the Mugrabi Gate after Friday prayers, Ynet reported on Feb. 22. When the troops pursued the men into the Temple Mount…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Operative Tracked Israeli Plane Landings in Cyprus
The Hezbollah operative on trial for plotting against Israeli tourists in Cyprus acknowledged passing on Israeli aircraft landing times to his terrorist handlers. Hosem Taleb Yaacoub on Thursday said in court that he recorded landing times for Arkia flights between Tel Aviv and Larnaca, the New York Times reported. Yaacoub, who has a Lebanese and…
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Fast Forward Shoe Bigwig Stuart Weitzman Gifts $1 Million to Maccabi USA
Shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, a former member of the U.S. Maccabiah Games table tennis team, donated $1 million to Maccabi USA. In announcing the gift on Thursday, Maccabi USA said the money would go to help fund the U.S. team’s participation in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in July as well as other commitments. Weitzman,…
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Fast Forward Report: 30% rise in anti-Semitic complaints in Belgium
Belgium saw a 30-percent increase in the number of anti-Semitic complaints filed in 2012, according to a government agency. Edouard Delruelle, president of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, a Belgian government agency, said his organization documented 88 complaints of anti-Semitism in 2012, compared to 62 the previous year and 57 the…
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Fast Forward Vienna Jewish Museum Admits Showing ‘Hundreds’ of Artworks Looted by Nazis
Officials from the Jewish Museum of Vienna said that hundreds of objects in the museum’s possession were looted from Jewish families during the Holocaust. A review of the artifacts found 490 objects and more than 980 books that may have been stolen from Jewish owners, The New York Times reported Wednesday. “For historic reasons, people…
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