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Fast Forward Jewish Institutions Shut Down as Sandy Looms
Jewish institutions throughout the eastern United States were closing in preparation for the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy. The hurricane was set to make landfall late Monday, but rain and high winds already have started to batter the East Coast. The storm is expected to cause massive flooding and major power outages. The UJA-Federation of New…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Party Gains in Ukraine Election
The Ukrainian ultranationalist Svoboda Party has made unprecedented gains in the country’s parliamentary elections, where it garnered 12 percent of the vote. Svoboda – or Freedom Party – has gained a reputation as an anti-Semitic movement due to anti-Jewish statements by its leaders. Sunday’s vote means the party can now control a faction in parliament…
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Fast Forward Shattering Truce, More Rockets Hit Israel
Some 20 rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel on Sunday night and Monday morning. The rockets landed in unpopulated areas and did not cause any injury or damage. In response, Israel’s Air Force early on Monday morning targeted what the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement were a rocket launching site and a…
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Fast Forward Israeli Solar Company Aims for $10M Expansion
Arava Power Company co-founders have hired an outside company to raise $10 million to fund the development of solar fields outside of Israel. Arava President Yosef Abramowitz, on behalf of the as-yet unnamed sister company, announced Sunday that they hired DS Apex M&A Ltd. to help them expand the development of solar fields globally. Also…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Italians Reenact Mussolini’s Rome March
Hundreds of far-right Italians converged on Predappio, the town in northern Italy where Benito Mussolini was born and is buried, to mark the 90th anniversary of the “march on Rome” that brought the Fascist dictator to power. The crowds chanted “Duce, Duce” and gave the fascist salute during Sunday’s anniversary march. Hardcore Fascists mark the…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Jews Headed for Israel
A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews is launching the final stages of the aliyah from Ethiopia. Monday’s scheduled flight marks the beginning of Operation Dove’s Wings, an Israeli government initiative to bring the remainder of the Falash Mura – Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity – to Israel by March 2014….
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Fast Forward Bibi Calls Yitzhak Rabin Murder ‘Worst Crime’
The murder of Yitzhak Rabin was “one of the worst crimes of the new age,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “It certainly besmirches the annals of the state and of Zionism. It will be etched in Jewish history along with other traumatic events,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly Cabinet meeting, which opened with a…
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Fast Forward Rockets From Gaza Hit Beersheba
Two long-range Grad rockets struck Beersheba and two Kassam rockets landed in an open area in southern Israel, threatening a three-day truce. Israel’s Air Force also targeted and hit a rocket launching site and a squad preparing to fire a rocket towards southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. Schools were closed…
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