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Fast Forward Arab Israelis Object to Mandatory Service
Forcing Israeli Arabs to do mandatory national service, which is being debated in the Knesset, is “a declaration of war” an Arab Knesset member has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We shall strongly resist. [Arab] youth will not obey mandatory national service,” Balad Knesset member Jamal Zahalka told Netanyahu, according to Ynet. “The attempt to…
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News Holocaust Beauty Pageant Held for Survivors
A beauty pageant for Holocaust survivors was held in Haifa, Israel, and featured female survivors walking down a red carpet and sharing details of their travails during World War II. Fourteen women, aged 74 to 97, participated according to news reports. Romanian native Hava Hershkovitz, 79, was crowned the winner. Organizers called the event a…
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Fast Forward Shaul Mofaz Will Meet Abbas in Ramallah
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Israel deputy prime minister Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, but a leading Palestinian negotiator said that should not be seen as a renewal of stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. ?I do not know what Mofaz will bring with him, but it is not going to be…
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Fast Forward Britain Won’t Join Call for Munich Memorial
Great Britain?s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will not join the growing international campaign for a moment of silence at the upcoming London Summer Olympics for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Games. ?The decision as to whether a minute?s silence is held during the Games lies with the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Splits Belgium’s Jews
A Holocaust memorial plan in Belgium is splitting the divide between the country?s Flemish and Francophone Jewish leaders. Jewish leaders from Flanders have asked Antwerp Mayor Patrick Janssens to refrain from placing memorial cobblestones across the city. The cobblestones were to be set opposite homes of Holocaust victims, each bearing a victim?s name. ?Cobblestones are…
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Fast Forward Clinton to Latvia: Resolve Jewish Property Issues
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Latvia to resolve issues related to restitution of Jewish property. On a visit to the Baltic nation, Clinton said that the U.S. supports restitution or compensation for those whose property was seized by the Nazis or communists. She also acknowledged the Lithuanian government?s attempts to address the…
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Fast Forward Hungary Anti-Semite Admits Jewish Roots
A leader of Hungary?s anti-Semitic Jobbik party confessed to having Jewish origins, but Jewish leaders reacted to his statement dismissively. ?I learned not long ago that I had parents of Jewish origins,? Csanad Szegedi, a member of the European parliament and regional leader of Jobbik, said in an interview with the daily Barikad. Members of…
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Fast Forward Orthodox and Reform Campers Join for Fourth
Orthodox and Reform Jewish campers will hold a joint Fourth of July celebration. The Americafest celebration next week, which will bring campers from the Orthodox Camp Darom in Grenada, Miss., to the Union for Reform Judaism?s Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica, Miss., was made possible by a grant from the Foundation for Jewish Camp….
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