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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Meets Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Gilad Shalit met New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall for a brief ceremony on the sixth anniversary of the day Shalit was captured by Hamas. During Tuesday’s ceremony, which also featured City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Bloomberg showed Shalit an iPad photo of himself with Shalit’s parents, Aviva and Noam, and presented…
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Fast Forward Senate Calls for Olympics Munich Remembrance
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging the International Olympic Committee to observe a moment of silence at the 2012 London Olympics for the Munich 11. The Senate resolution, which passed Monday, is part of a larger global effort calling on the IOC to honor the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were murdered…
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Fast Forward ‘Elmo’ Booted From Central Park for Anti-Semitic Rant
A man in an Elmo costume was ejected from Central Park and hospitalized after going on an anti-Semitic rant in the middle of the New York landmark. While the man’s name was not released because he was not arrested, police said that Monday’s incident was not the first time he had dressed as the Sesame…
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Fast Forward Gad Beck, Gay Holocaust Survivor, Dies
Gad Beck, the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died in Berlin. Beck, 88, who was a resistance fighter during World War II for Chug Chaluzi, an underground Zionist resistance youth group, died on June 24, just six days before his 89th birthday. Chug Chaluzi played a major role in saving German Jews…
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Fast Forward Israel Deports 150 More African Immigrants
Israel deported 150 more migrants from South Sudan. A planeload with 150 of the African migrants, which Israel calls illegal infiltrators, left Israel for South Sudan on Monday evening. Some 120 other South Sudanese migrants left Israel last w eek. The migrants reportedly are leaving voluntarily in exchange for a cash grant and a fight…
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Fast Forward Iraq Cuts U.S. Arts Ties Over Jewish Archives
Iraq is cutting archaeological cooperation with the United States because the U.S. has not returned Iraq’s Jewish archives. Iraqi Tourism and Archaeology Minister Liwaa Smaisim is pushing for the return of the archives that were removed from Iraq following the 2003 U.S. Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the French news agency AFP. Iraq was home…
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Fast Forward Evacuation of Illegal Settlement Begins
Residents and supporters of the West Bank Ulpana neighborhood held a morning prayer service as moving vans arrived to evacuate them from the disputed properties. The first 15 families living in the outlying neighborhood of the Beit El settlement were scheduled to move to trailer homes set up at a nearby army base on Tuesday….
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Fast Forward 3 Jews Charged With Defacing Yad Vashem
Three haredi Orthodox men were arrested for spray painting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti on the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The men, ages 18, 26 and 27, of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak and reportedly of the Neturei Karta sect, were arrested Tuesday, and reportedly admitted to the crime, which occurred earlier this month. They…
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