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Fast Forward Obama Administration Reaffirms Levels of Defense Aid to Egypt
The Obama administration reaffirmed its commitment to current levels of funding for Egypt’s military while announcing new civil assistance programs. “The U.S. Government’s Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, which has amounted to $1.3 billion annually, underpins strong U.S.-Egyptian security relations and works to develop the Egyptian military as a professional and disciplined defense force,” said…
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Fast Forward German Jewish Leader Flashes Pistol To Deter Assailant
A leader of Germany’s Jewish community reportedly showed a verbal assailant a pistol after being taunted on Yom Kippur. The secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Stephan Kramer, told AFP the incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon as he walked home during Yom Kippur with his four children near the Kurfuerstendamm, one…
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Fast Forward Swedish Police Arrest Two After Explosion Rocks Jewish Building
Swedish police have arrested two men in connection with an explosion that rocked a Jewish community building in Malmo. The explosion took place early Friday morning, according to Fred Kahn, chairman of the board of Jewish community of Malmo. “There was an explosion and someone also threw a rock at the windows at the entrance…
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Fast Forward Paris Mayor Slammed For Respecting Yom Kippur
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, has come under criticism for adjourning city council talks early for the start of Yom Kippur. Following the early suspension of deliberations at the Council of Paris on Tuesday, council member Gilles Alayrac said, “The mayor devotes too much attention to religious sensitivities.” The newspaper Le Parisien also quoted…
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Fast Forward Explosion Rocks Jewish Building in Malmo
Swedish police have arrested two men in connection with an explosion that rocked a Jewish community building in Malmo. The explosion took place early Friday morning, according to Fred Kahn, chairman of the board of Jewish community of Malmo. “There was an explosion and someone also threw a rock at the windows at the entrance…
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Fast Forward 4 Men Arrested For Harassing Jews in Cannes
French police arrested four men last week on suspicion that they hurled empty bottles at Jews near a synagogue in Cannes on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. On Sept. 17 the suspects stood outside a Cannes synagogue, shouted anti-Semitic slogans, and threw bottles at the building and passersby, according to the SPCJ, the security department…
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Fast Forward Belgium Honors Israeli Physicist
Belgium will bestow its highest civilian honor on Daniel Zajfman, an Israeli physicist and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Zajfman, who was born in Brussels and immigrated to Israel in 1979, will receive the title of Commander of the Order of Leopold on Nov. 4 in a small ceremony at the Embassy of…
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Fast Forward Iran Boycotts 2013 Oscars
Iran will not submit a movie for the 2013 Oscars, in protest of an anti-Muslim video. Iran’s culture minister on Tuesday said his country would boycott the next Academy Awards because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had failed to protest the film, which mocks the Prophet Muhammad. The academy organizes the award…
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