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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Vandalized in St. Petersburg
Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on the Jewish Agency for Israel’s building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The graffiti, including swastikas, was painted on the building and a neighboring building last weekend, and was acknowledged by the Jewish Agency in a statement released on Thursday. The words “All of you – to Buchenwald” appeared in large letters…
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Fast Forward West Bank Security Barrier Construction Resumes
Construction will resume on Israel’s West Bank security fence, five years after it was halted due to budget shortfalls. The construction of a segment of the barrier around the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem was approved Wednesday by Israel’s Supreme Court, according to reports. The construction will begin in the next few weeks. A…
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Fast Forward Online Anti-Semitism Doubles in Spain
Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in volume last year, according to a Spanish Jewish community monitor. In a report on anti-Semitism in Spain in 2011, the Observatory on Anti-Semitism in Spain counted more than 1,000 anti-Semitic sites and web pages that the observatory says were created in Spain. In 2010 the observatory counted only 400…
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Fast Forward Dovish Groups Say No to Divestment Push
Left-leaning pro-Israel groups have called on the country’s largest Presbyterian Church to abandon plans to divest from three companies that it is says have resisted the request to stop providing services that aid Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Americans for Peace Now and J Street have called on the Church’s plenary to vote against…
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Fast Forward American College Heads Explore Israel Links
A delegation of U.S. university presidents is in Israel to explore opportunities for academic and research collaboration. The seminar, which ends July 9, is sponsored by Project Interchange, an educational institute of the American Jewish Committee. A president of a historically Black college and university, Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, is participating in…
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Fast Forward Yasser Arafat’s Body May Be Exhumed
Former Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat may have died of radioactive poisoning, Al Jazeera is reporting. Reuters said Palestinian leaders had agreed to allow his body to be exhumed to perform tests that could confirm or refute the account. Al Jazeera’s report released Tuesday, following a nine-month investigation, cites findings by The Institut de Radiophysique…
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Fast Forward Happy Birthday, America!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an Independence Day message that he “appreciate(s) deeply all that America has done for Israel.” The taped video message was played Tuesday night at the Independence Day celebration at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Herzliya. Netanyahu did not attend the event, due to a leg injury sustained while…
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Fast Forward Argentine Jewish Village Nominated as Historic Site
The Simon Wiesenthal Center submitted the Argentinean Jewish settlement of Moises Ville for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Center proposed the city, whose name in Spanish means City of Moses, at the World Heritage Committee meeting of the United Nations’ scientific and cultural arm, which will conclude on July 6 in St….
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