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Fast Forward Aly Raisman Sues Olympic Committee Over Serial Molester Doctor
(JTA) — Aly Raisman sued the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics alleging negligence for not stopping former U.S. Olympics gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar from sexually abusing young athletes. Raisman, who is Jewish and the winner of numerous Olympic medals, including several golds, filed her lawsuit Wednesday in California, saying they “knew or should…
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Fast Forward Prince William To Visit Israel In Reversal Of Decades-Long Royal Boycott
(JTA) — In a break with what many believe is a decades-long unofficial boycott of Israel, the British Royal House announced what appears to be a state visit to the Jewish homeland by one of its senior-most members, Prince William, whose official title is the Duke of Cambridge. The announcement on March 1 on the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Researchers Grow Truffles Worth More Than Uranium
(JTA) — Researchers in Israel said they have succeeded in cultivating commercially desert truffles whose market price reaches $120 per pound — slightly less than the cost of silver and four times that of uranium. The researchers from the Ramat HaNegev Desert Agriculture Center in Israel’s south made a breakthrough in stimulating a symbiosis between…
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Fast Forward Arab Teenagers Arrested For Beating Jewish Boy Outside French Synagogue
(JTA) — Police in France arrested four teenagers who are suspected of beating a Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue north of Paris. The suspects were detained Wednesday night in Montmagny, the Le Parisien daily reported Thursday. Their alleged suspect, 14, was beaten after 8 p.m. outside the…
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Fast Forward Americans In Israel Warned To ‘Keep A Low Profile’ After Embassy Move
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.S. diplomatic mission in Israel urged Americans there to “keep a low profile” following last week’s announcement that the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will open in May. American diplomats in Israel were prohibited from official travel in the West Bank starting Wednesday, the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem announced. The Consulate…
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Fast Forward American-Israeli Teen Accused Of JCC Bomb Threats Indicted For Hate Crimes
(JTA) — The American-Israeli man accused of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States was indicted for federal hate crimes. The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday indicted the 19-year-old alleged computer hacker Michael Kadar, who is under arrest in Israel, they said. The hoax threats to the Jewish community…
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Fast Forward Malcolm Hoenlein Stepping Down As Conference Of Presidents Chief
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is stepping aside after more than three decades of helming the umbrella foreign policy group for the U.S. Jewish community. He will remain with the conference in an as yet undetermined capacity. An email Monday from…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Delays Demolition Of West Bank Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court delayed by three months the scheduled demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost built completely or in part on Palestinian-owned land. The court on Wednesday agreed to a government request to postpone the demolition in the Netiv Haavot outpost while it prepares temporary housing for the 15 families…
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