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Fast Forward Reports that Allen Iverson Will Play for Maccabi Haifa are False
Reports that retired NBA star Allen Iverson will play for Israel’s Maccabi Haifa basketball team in two upcoming exhibition games against NBA teams are false, a Maccabi representative told JTA. “The local Israeli press completely made this up,” said Andrew Wilson, director of marketing for Triangle Financial Services, which is chaired by Maccabi Haifa owner…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Launches Inquiry into Fatal Hotel Shooting
The Jewish Agency is opening an inquiry into its Oranim program after an American participant gunned down a hotel employee in Eilat. “In response to the tragic incident in Eilat, the Chairperson of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky expressed his deep sorrow at the loss of life and has appointed a panel to examine the…
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Fast Forward Greek neo-Nazi Party Welcomed Into anti-Discrimination Body
A leading European body aimed at combating discrimination has accepted a representative of a Greek neo-Nazi political party. On Monday, Golden Dawn party member and lawmaker Eleni Zaroulia became a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League,…
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Fast Forward Knesset Speaker Calls for Early Elections
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin has called on the Israeli parliament to disband itself and begin preparing for early elections. “There can be no doubt that the decision to go to early election has been made and all the parties are preparing for elections,” Army Radio and other media quoted Rivlin as saying on Thursday. “It…
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Fast Forward Police Push Back Rioters on Temple Mount
Israeli police reportedly pushed back rioters on the Temple Mount. Police used shock grenades to subdue hundreds of rioters throwing stones after the end of Friday prayers, Israel Radio reported. There were no reports of injuries, it said. The site in Jerusalem’s Old City, overlooking the Western Wall, is home to two mosques and is…
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News German Cabinet Schedules Circumcision Amendment Debate
Germany’s Cabinet has scheduled a discussion on an amendment that would formally legalize ritual circumcision but place some restrictions on who could circumcise and how. The discussion was set for Oct. 10, the German paper Die Welt reported. To become law, the amendment needs to pass a vote in the Bundestag. Amendment 1631d to the…
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Fast Forward Iverson Signing on with Maccabi Haifa for U.S. Games — and Maybe Longer
Former NBA Most Valuable Player Allen Iverson reportedly will play for Maccabi Haifa in its two exhibition games against NBA teams – and perhaps longer. Iverson, 37, will suit up for the Israeli squad when it takes on the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves this month in the United States, the Israeli Sport5 site reported….
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Fast Forward Irving Cohen, Maitre d’ of Concord Hotel in Catskills, Dies at 95
Irving Cohen, the maitre d’ at the popular Concord Hotel in the Catskills for 50 years, died in Florida at 95. Cohen, who started working as a waiter at the Concord in the late 1930s and stayed there until the resort shut down in 1988, died Oct. 1 at his home in Boca Raton, The…
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