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Fast Forward Hasidic Police Cadet Sues Over Beard Order
A Hasidic police cadet who said he was fired from the New York Police Department because he would not trim his beard has sued to get his job back. Fishel Litzman filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit late last week against the New York City Police Department, the City of New York, and Police Commissioner Raymond…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Unhappy With Dutch Kosher Slaughter Deal
Shortly after approving a deal which allows kosher slaughter in the Netherlands, the chief rabbi of Amsterdam called the agreement “flawed” and warned it could ultimately eliminate the practice. Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag made the charges in a letter dated June 13. The previous day, however, he approved the deal by declaring it did not violate…
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Fast Forward Israel Starts Deportations of African Immigrants
Israeli Prime Minister announced that a planeload of illegal migrants would be returned to South Sudan, and he called the repatriation “orderly and dignified.” Migrants reportedly began boarding buses Sunday afternoon headed for Ben Gurion Airport where a plane load of 120 illegal migrants was scheduled to leave Sunday evening. “We have a Jewish tradition…
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Fast Forward Romney: I’ll Be Opposite of Obama on Israel
Mitt Romney told an audience of Christian conservatives that he would do the “opposite” of what President Obama has done when it comes to Israel. “I think, by and large, you can just look at the things the president has done and do the opposite,” Romney said Saturday in an address by video to a…
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Fast Forward Peres: Israel Owes Obama ‘Deepest Thanks’
Israel owes its “deepest thanks” to President Obama, Israeli President Shimon Peres said, culminating a visit that included receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Obama “did more than he promised, contrary to what has been said, there was no request he didn’t take into consideration,” Peres said Thursday at a reception in his honor at…
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Fast Forward Jewish Lawmaker Silenced in Michigan
A Michigan state lawmaker cited her Jewish faith in a floor speech on abortion law that got her silenced for a day because she used the word “vagina.” State Rep. Lisa Brown (D) spoke Wednesday in opposition to proposed laws that would add restrictions to clinics that provide abortions, including hikes in required insurance and…
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Fast Forward Canada Joins Campaign to Commemorate Munich Massacre
Canada has joined an international campaign urging a moment of silence at the opening of the London Olympics to mark the 40th anniversary of the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Games. Canada’s House of Commons on Thursday unanimously passed a motion to commemorate the “tragic terrorist events of the 1972 Munich Olympics wherein…
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Fast Forward Bolivian Ministers to Look Into Ostreicher case
Bolivian Cabinet ministers told the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives human rights subcommittee that they would look into the case of a jailed Brooklyn Chasidic Jew. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) met this week in Bolivia with Minister of Government Carlos Romero and Minister of Justice Cecilia Luisa Ayllon. Jacob Ostreicher has been held…
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