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Fast Forward Chicago White Sox Shift Game for Yom Kippur
The start time of a Major League Baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians has been changed due to Yom Kippur. The Sept. 25 game will now start at 1:10 p.m. instead of 7:10 p.m., the Chicago White Sox organization announced Tuesday. The game will be played in Chicago. The time…
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Fast Forward Jewish Funders Behind Explosive Anti-Islam Film
Widespread riots in the Middle East that led to the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya came following the release online of an Arabic translation of a movie directed by Sam Bacile, a 56-year-old California real-estate developer, titled “Innocence of Muslims.” The two-hour movie, which according to the Associated Press cost $5 million to…
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Fast Forward Israel Releases $65M in Palestinian Tax Money
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the transfer of some $63 million to the Palestinian Authority to help ease its economic crisis. The transfer Tuesday evening came after Netanyahu consulted on the issue with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, and then asked his special envoy, Isaac Molho to coordinate with the Palestinian leadership, according to a…
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Fast Forward Settlers Vandalize West Bank Mosque
A mosque near Hebron was spray painted with graffiti referring to a West Bank outpost. “Price Tag Migron” was painted on the wall of a mosque in Dura, a village located southwest of Hebron. Palestinian residents informed West Bank police on Tuesday evening. Price tag refers to the strategy that extremists have adopted to exact…
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Fast Forward U.S.-Israeli Relations Spiral Downhill Over Iran
Between the red lines, the deadlines, the diplomacy and the dress downs, the vaunted cooperation between Israel and the United States on whether and when to strike Iran seems to be in a free fall. In an unusually blunt outburst, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday blasted the “international community” – widely seen in Israeli…
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Fast Forward Debate Over Anti-Israel Ad Rocks N. Carolina Town
A North Carolina town council will review its policy regarding political advertising on public buses as a debate rages over an anti-Israel ad. The Chapel Hill Town Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday comes as ads have been placed on nearly 100 city buses calling for the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. The ads…
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Fast Forward ’50 Shades’ Hebrew Edition Sells Out in a Day
The first Hebrew printing of the popular novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” sold out in a day. The 50,000 copies of the book by British author E.L. James, which went on sale Sunday, were sold out by Monday morning, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. The book, the first of a trilogy and initially published…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Plan To Sue Over Circumcision Rite
Agudath Israel of America reportedly is planning to sue the city of New York if its health department passes a law requiring parental consent for the circumcision ritual known as metzitzah b’peh. The New York Jewish Week reported the development based on an email forwarded to the news outlet sent originally from the account of…
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