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News Lillian Jacobs, Lived on Block for Century, Dies
Lillian Jacobs, who was recently featured in a New York Times article for living on the same block for 100 years, has died. Jacobs, who moved to East 84th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side when she was 2, died Sunday on the same street at age 102. Her story was reported last month in…
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Fast Forward Melbourne Day School Guard To Face Rape Charges
An Orthodox Jewish man who worked as a security guard at a Jewish boys’ school in Melbourne was committed to stand trial on charges of sexually abusing children. In the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Monday, magistrate Luisa Bazzani ordered David Cyprys to face 40 charges of child molestation – including multiple counts of rape – against…
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Fast Forward Rights Group Video Shows Settler Violence
A video distributed by an Israeli human rights organization shows Jewish settlers firing at a group of rock-throwing Palestinians as Israeli soldiers look on. Settlers from the West Bank village of Yitzhar clashed May 19 with residents of the Palestinian village Asira al-Qibliya. A Palestinian man, 24 was injured in the head by the gunfire….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Groups Agree To Speed Reconciliation
Palestinian political movements Fatah and Hamas signed an agreement to move the reconciliation process forward. The agreement was signed late Sunday night in Cairo, the Palestinian Ma’an news service reported, citing Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad. Fatah is the party of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority. The terrorist organization Hamas heads the government in…
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Fast Forward Bibi Calls African Immigration Key Threat
The surge of illegal African migrants into Israel “threatens national security and identity,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “If we do not stop this, 60,000 infiltrators could become 600,000 and possibly even jeopardize Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish democracy,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly Cabinet meeting. He said Israel was working to…
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Fast Forward Freed Lockerbie Bomber Al-Megrahi Dies
The former Libyan intelligence agent convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, who was released from prison for humanitarian reasons, has died. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, 59, died Sunday in Libya after suffering from prostate cancer. He was released from a Scottish prison and returned to Libya in 2008 after his lawyers…
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The Schmooze John Cleese Will Star in Israeli’s Film
British comic actor John Cleese has signed on to a film by Israeli director Reshef Levi. Cleese will play a disgraced, eccentric British lord in the heist comedy “Hunting Elephants,” in which three Israeli senior citizens help a 12-year-old boy hatch a plan to rob a bank in order to save his family home. Cleese’s…
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Fast Forward 30,000 March To Mark Jerusalem Day
At least 30,000 people participated in the Jerusalem Day parade known as the Dance of the Flags, which led to some clashes between marchers and counter-protesters. The route went in part through eastern Jerusalem before entering THE Old City of Jerusalem through the Damascus and Jaffa gates and ending at the Western Wall, where participants…
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