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Fast Forward Mitt Romney’s Support of Israel Touted in Video
The Republican National Convention showed a video highlighting Mitt Romney’s commitment to Israel. The one-and-a-half-minute video featured footage of Romney’s July visit to Israel and several excerpts from the candidate’s speech in Jerusalem. “Mitt Romney believes America shares a deep and cherished relationship with Israel, and like the United States, Israel respects the rights of…
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Fast Forward John McCain Bashes Obama Policy on Israel
Israel is under “existential threat” and is among the American allies suffering from the Obama administration’s leadership failures, Sen. John McCain suggested in his speech to the Republican convention. “Unfortunately, for four years, we’ve drifted away from our proudest traditions of global leadership – traditions that are truly bipartisan,” McCain said Wednesday evening at the…
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Fast Forward Funeral Home Plans Crematory Near Majdanek
A Polish funeral company has announced plans to build a crematory near the Majdanek concentration camp. The Anti-Defamation League said in a statement Wednesday that it had sent a letter to the mayor of Lublin in eastern Poland asking him to block the company, Styks, from going ahead with the plan. Some 360,000 people perished…
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Fast Forward John Galliano Sues Dior for $18M Over Firing
Designer John Galliano reportedly has filed an $18.7 million lawsuit against Christian Dior, the fashion house that fired him for anti-Semitic speech. On Tuesday, the website of the London-based The Daily Telegraph reported that Galliano “is believed” to have lodged an employee/employer dispute claim with the French labor court, with a Paris hearing scheduled for…
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Fast Forward Women’s Group Sues Orthodox Station for $26M
The religious women’s organization Kolech filed a class-action lawsuit against an Israeli haredi Orthodox radio station for excluding women. The nearly $26 million lawsuit filed Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court against Kol Berama alleges that the station does not hire women as interviewers or invite women to be interviewed. “From the start, the station adhered…
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Fast Forward Illegal Settlers Get Week To Leave Migron
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the West Bank outpost of Migron must be evacuated by Sept. 4. All 50 families must leave the outpost, the court ruled Wednesday in response to a petition filed by the families requesting a delay in the eviction until the modular homes being built for the evacuees are completed. They…
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Fast Forward Claims Conference Rips Hungary for ‘Disgraceful’ Tactics
The Claims Conference accused Hungary’s government of “depriving” Holocaust survivors through “disgraceful” and “deceitful tactics.” The allegations came after Budapest demanded on Monday that the Claims Conference, an organization representing world Jewry in compensation talks on Holocaust-era crimes,” return” $12.6 million to Hungary’s treasury. An announcement published on the website of the Hungarian Ministry of…
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Fast Forward Calif. Lawmakers Slam Anti-Semitism on Campus
The California State Assembly approved a resolution calling on colleges and universities in the state to combat anti-Semitism. The symbolic resolution was approved Tuesday with no debate, according to the Associated Press. The resolution also calls on the schools to quash campus demonstrations against Israel. Pro-Palestinian and free speech activists were angered by the resolution,…
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