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Fast Forward Racist Israeli Soccer Fans Protest Muslim Players
Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team are protesting team owner Russian-Israeli tycoon Arkadi Gaydamak’s decision to hire two Muslim players. Fans on the evening of Jan. 25 during a Premier League game against Bnei Yehuda at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem protested the move to bring two players from the Chechen Terek Gorzny team to…
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News Rome Holocaust Museum Delayed by Red Tape
If all goes according to plan, a starkly modern, $30 million Holocaust museum will soon rise on the site of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s Rome residence. The site, also the location of ancient Jewish catacombs and now a city park, will be home to a museum first proposed in 2005 but held up repeatedly by…
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Fast Forward Independent Panel Will Probe 1994 Terror Bombing at Argentina Jewish Center
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi signed an agreement to form an independent commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, AMIA. According the agreement both countries will create a “Commission of Truth”, consisting of five independent judges, none of whom will be from…
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Fast Forward London Times Cartoon Depicts Benjamin Netanayahu Building Bloody Wall
An editorial cartoon showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement was published in London’s Sunday Times. The caption on the cartoon reads: “Israeli Elections… Will Cementing Peace Continue?” The cartoon was drawn by Gerald Scarfe, who drew the cover illustration for Pink…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama: Fight Against Hate on Holocaust Remembrance Day
President Obama in a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day said the spirit of Holocaust resistance must inspire policy today. “While this is a time for mourning and reflection, it is also the time for action,” Obama said in the statement released Sunday. “On this day, we recall the courage, spirit and determination of those…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Changed Prayers To Make Barack Obama’s Inaugural Service ‘Jew-ier’
Preaching to a preacher man – or woman – doesn’t always play out as planned. That’s the lesson learned this week by officials at the National Cathedral after several clergy, including three rabbis, made impromptu changes to the readings they were given to deliver at a prayer service following the Jan. 22 inauguration of President…
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Fast Forward 92-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Cited in Aussie
A 92-year-old Auschwitz survivor was among more than a dozen Jews to be honored on Australia Day. Eddie Jaku, a guide at the Sydney Jewish Museum since 1992, received a Medal of the Order of Australia in Saturday’s awards that featured 425 men and 146 women. Jaku travels frequently to the country’s capital of Canberra…
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Fast Forward 39% of French Say Jews Hold ‘Too Much Power’
A new survey on how Frenchmen perceive Jews revealed widespread anti-Semitism alongside high support for Israel and pro-Jewish sentiments. The survey, conducted earlier this month by the polling company Market Watch among 1,000 respondents, showed 39 percent of the men and women who replied agreed with the statement that “Jews possess too much power in…
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