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Fast Forward Bibi Pulls Muscle in Soccer Match
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu injured his leg during a soccer match with Jewish and Arab youth. Netanyahu pulled a tendon in his leg during the Monday afternoon game with young Jewish and Arab players in Jerusalem, Walla! News reported. The prime minister slipped on the grass, got up and continued to play and scored…
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Fast Forward Iran Blocks Watchdogs From Nuclear Site
Iran will not allow the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit Iran’s Parchin military complex, accusing inspectors of being “Western spies.” Iranian lawmaker Evaz Heidarpour told national media that the United States and Western countries were trying to gain access to Iran’s military secrets, by sending representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Vandalized; Jewish Radicals Eyed
Vandals spray painted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. The slogans written in Hebrew, including “Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust,” “If Hitler did not exist, the Zionists would have invented him,” and “The war of the Zionist regime is not the war of the Jewish people,” were mostly found at…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz Dies on 95th Birthday
Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz, who for 26 years guided Washington’s largest and oldest Conservative synagogue, died on his 95th birthday. Rabinowitz died Sunday at his daughter’s home in San Diego, where he had lived for the past year. During his nearly three decades as the spiritual leader of Adas Israel Congregation, he preached to and spiritually…
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Fast Forward NYPD Fires Hasid Who Wouldn’t Trim Beard
A Chasidic police cadet said he was fired from the New York Police Department because he would not trim his beard. Fishel Litzman, who was a month away from graduating from the Police Academy, said it would violate his religious beliefs to trim his beard to the 1 millimeter length allowed by the NYPD, the…
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Fast Forward African Immigrants March in Tel Aviv
Hundreds of African migrants protested in Tel Aviv against violence directed at them, as well as Israeli government policy toward migrants as a group. The some 300 migrants, most from Eritrea and Sudan, according to Ynet, marched from Levinsky Park in Tel Aviv to the United Nations mission. Signs carried by the migrants read: “A…
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Fast Forward Peres Plans To Press for Pollard’s Release
Israeli President Shimon Peres, in the U.S. to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will press President Obama and other American officials to release Jonathan Pollard. Peres, who will meet with American officials ahead of the medal’s presentation at the White House on Wednesday, is carrying a petition signed by some 70,000 Israelis calling for…
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Fast Forward Euro 2012 Soccer Tourney Used to Recall Shoah
Israeli students have launched a social media campaign which uses the Euro 2012 soccer games to commemorate the Holocaust. Over one million people will visit Ukraine and Poland this month to watch the Euro 2012 soccer games. The Israeli students wondered how many of them will remember the some six million Jews murdered in those…
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