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Fast Forward Dem Lawmakers Unhappy Over Jerusalem Omission
Congressional Democrats expressed disappointment about the removal from the Democratic Party platform of a reference to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told JTA on Wednesday that the controversy surrounding the absence of the claim for the first time in decades was “disappointing” because “it raises an issue that’s not an issue,”…
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Fast Forward Berlin’s State Legalizes Circumcision
One of Germany’s 16 states has declared circumcision legal. Berlin, Germany’s capital and itself a state, is the first to declare the practice legal following Cologne court ruled in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, according to DPA, a German news wire. National legislation is also pending to legalize circumcision….
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Fast Forward Raoul Wallenberg Honored Down Under
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped save up to 100,000 Jews during the Holocaust, was honored in an Australian parliament. New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell marked the centenary since Wallenberg’s birth Wednesday by announcing an annual human rights award in Wallenberg’s name. “It is important the New South Wales Government pays tribute to a…
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Fast Forward Europeans Launch E-Survey on Anti-Semitism
The European Union has launched an online survey into how Jews experience anti-Semitism in nine member states. Results will be published in an EU report next year, Henry Nickels of the European Union for Fundamental Rights Agency said on Tuesday at a conference in Brussels. His Vienna-based inter-governmental body and the Institute for Jewish Policy…
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Fast Forward Israel Envoy Denies Hitting GOP Over Partisanship
Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, “categorically denied” that he specified the Republican Party when he described as harmful making Israel a partisan issue. “I categorically deny that I ever characterized Republican policies as harmful to Israel,” Oren said in a statement emailed Tuesday to reporters. “Bipartisan support is a paramount national interest for Israel,…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Leader Urges ‘Compromises’
The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, urged dozens of imams and rabbis to accept “compromises” in negotiating religious liberties in Europe. “We are ready to compromise in dialogue with European leaders,” Kantor said Tuesday at a event attended by dozens of Muslim and Jewish religious leaders in Paris. Recent compromises are “a…
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Fast Forward Wailing Wall Gets Good Marks From Engineers
The Western Wall checked out fine in a test of its stability by engineers. The office of the rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, said there were no abnormal findings in Tuesday’s test. The check was made less than two weeks before the start of the High Holidays, when hundreds of thousands of…
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News Calif. Democrat Sorry for GOP ‘Big Lie’ Jibe
John Burton, the chairman of the Democratic Party in California, apologized to those who took offense at his remarks comparing Republican statements to Nazi propaganda. Following an uproar over the remarks, which were condemned by Democrats and Republicans, Burton issued a statement on Monday. “To correct press reports of my recent comments about Republican lies,…
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