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Fast Forward Jailed Irish Convert Demands Kosher Food
A jailed sex offender in Ireland has brought a High Court challenge against prison authorities to compel them to meet his kosher dietary needs. At Dublin’s High Court on Wednesday, Ivan Peter Gan, aka Peter Ivan Dunne, sought to bring judicial review proceedings against the Governor of Arbour Hill Prison, the Prison Services, and the…
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Fast Forward Brazil’s Anne Frank Schools Head to Amsterdam
Brazil’s Jewish community sent directors of five Brazilian schools named after Anne Frank on a Holocaust study tour in Amsterdam. The study trip is the first step in the creation of an educational network, according to an announcement by CONIB, the central body representing the Brazilian Jewish community. The network’s schools would teach tolerance according…
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Fast Forward S. African Rabbi Blasts ‘Don’t Visit’ Minister
South Africa’s chief rabbi has called on the country’s deputy minister of international relations to resign, saying he is unfit to hold public office. Earlier this week, South African politician Ebrahim Ebrahim issued a statement saying that South Africans would be discouraged from visiting Israel unless they were involved in peace efforts. In an open…
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Fast Forward 50 Nazi Descendants Take Part in Auschwitz March
Fifty descendants of officers of the era Nazi SS, Wehrmacht and World War II-era German police officers will be among the participants in the March of Life, which will start on Sunday at Auschwitz. Several hundred people from Poland, Israel and Germany will take part in the program, which will commemorate the victims of the…
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Fast Forward Minister Takes Aim at ‘Bodies’ Exhibit
Israel’s deputy health minister has reportedly asked the Attorney General to cancel an exhibition in Tel Aviv of preserved human bodies. Yaakov Litzman, a leader in United Torah Judaism, a haredi political party, told Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein that Israeli law required bodies to be buried within 48 hours of death unless a government medical…
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News Facebook Takes Down Some Hezbollah Content
Facebook, citing a policy against hosting content that “incites hate,” has removed some Hezbollah-related content. Although some Facebook pages in praise of Hezbollah could be accessed on Friday, a page on its radio statio, Al-Manar, displayed only text about the station and no commentary or reports. “To help keep our site safe, we use the…
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Fast Forward Soccer Boss Rebuked for Anti-Arab Insult
Paraguay’s soccer association has suspended a Jewish team president for hurling racial slurs at a colleague of Arab descent. During a match last month, the president of Asuncion’s Olimpia soccer team, Marcelo Recanate, accosted Juan José Zapag, the president of a rival team. Recanate will be suspended for four months and suffer a 60-month reduction…
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Fast Forward King Abdullah: Israel Harms Jerusalem
Israeli policy in Jerusalem is harming the city’s holy sites, Jordan’s King Abdullah said. Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency on Thursday quoted the king as telling clergymen from Jerusalem in Amman that “Israel’s acts of radicalization harm the holy places” in Jerusalem. “The coerced emigration of Arab Christians and Arab Muslim from the Holy City…
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