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Fast Forward Israelis Arrested on Organ-Smuggling Charges
Ten Israelis were arrested on suspicion of human organ trafficking. Tuesday’s arrests of alleged participants in an international organ harvesting ring came after an undercover operation of several months. The Israelis arrested allegedly recruited poor Israelis to sell their kidneys for relatively meager sums for use in surgeries in Azerbaijan, Kosovo and other countries. They…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Man Sentenced in Sex Abuse Case
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 20 years to life for sexually abusing children in his Orthodox Jewish community. Michael Sabo, a 38-year-old father of four, confessed to sexually abusing two children. He was sentenced this week after agreeing to a plea bargain. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said it had evidence of seven additional…
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Fast Forward Yemenite Jew Killed in Sana’a Market
A leader of Yemen’s Jewish community was stabbed to death at a market in the capital of Sana’a. The victim, who has been identified in media reports as Harun Yusuf Zindani or Aaron Joseph Zindani, 50, reportedly was stabbed in the neck and in his stomach. He died Tuesday. His Muslim assailant accused him of…
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Fast Forward Israel Donates Fitness Park in Buenos Aires
Israel donated an outdoor fitness park to the Buenos Aires city government in a ceremony at Palermo Park, the main green space in the Argentinean capital. Buenos Aires Minister of Public Spaces and Environment Diego Santilli accepted the park in a ceremony Monday at Israel Square, located inside Palermo Park. Israeli Amb. Daniel Gazit, Keren…
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Fast Forward Turkey Seeks Life Sentences for Flotilla Raid
A special prosecutor in Istanbul has prepared indictments against the four top Israeli commanders who led the 2010 raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara ship. The 144-page indictment seeks 10 aggravated life jail sentences for each commander, including former Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, according to the English-language daily Turkish news…
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Fast Forward U.N. Watchdog Expects To Sign Deal With Iran
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said his agency expects to sign a deal with Iran to allow an investigation into the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Tuesday’s announcement in Tehran by Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came a day after talks between Amano and Iranian officials, including Iranian chief…
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Fast Forward Ancient Talmud Translated to English
A Talmud that took Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 45 years to translate from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic into modern Hebrew is being published in English. The first volume of Steinsaltz’s Koren Talmud Bavli is being launched in conjunction with Shavuot, which commemorates the day the Torah was given to the Jewish people. The complete set will…
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Fast Forward AJC: One State Bad for Israelis and Palestinians
A top American Jewish Committee official decried to an Arab audience advocacy of a “one state solution” from both the pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian perspectives. “AJC opposes calls for a one-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, whether proposed by supporters of the Palestinian cause or by supporters of Israel,” Jason Isaacson, AJC’s director of government and…
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