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Fast Forward Bernie Fine Hired by Israeli Hoops Squad
Longtime Syracuse University assistant coach Bernie Fine, who was fired in November amid allegations of sexual molestation, was hired as a consultant for an Israeli pro basketball team. Maccabi Bazan Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Super League announced his hiring on Thursday. The team said it will include Fine on player personnel decisions, as well…
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Fast Forward Former Principal Sues Over Gas Chamber Exhibit
A black Jewish woman is suing the Phoenix school where she formerly served as principal for failing to respond to complaints about a fake gas chamber set up outside her office and then firing her. Millicent McNeil, who was fired from the Mission Charter School last May 13, filed a $2 million lawsuit in Maricopa…
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Fast Forward Rubio: Iran Should Be Preeminent Foreign Policy Issue
Preventing Iran from becoming preeminent in its region should guide all U.S. foreign policy, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said. Rubio, delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution on Washington – a foreign policy testing ground for aspirants to the presidency or the vice presidency – said negotiations and pressure short of force were the preferred…
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Fast Forward In Independence Day Speech, Peres Warns Israel’s Enemies
Israeli President Shimon Peres offered a warning to Israel’s enemies on the occasion of Israeli Independence Day. “To those who are now threatening Israel I say: Don’t repeat the mistakes of your predecessors,” Peres said in a speech at an annual ceremony bestowing honors on 120 soldiers for Yom Ha’atzmaut. “You threaten out of a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Boarding School Wins Eco-Award
The American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized as a Green Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. Cited for its environmentalism and science curriculum, the academy was among 78 public and private schools nationwide to be named Monday. The school noted its geothermal energy system, which pumps water from deep below the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cardiologists Barred From Dubai Meeting
Jewish and Arab Israeli cardiologists were denied visas at the last minute to attend a professional conference in Dubai. Only two of the more than one dozen Israeli doctors invited to present talks at or participate in the World Heart Federation conference in Dubai last week were able to attend, The Jerusalem Post reported. Some…
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Fast Forward Army Chief: Iran Has Not Decided to Build Bomb
Iran has not yet decided whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb, the head of Israel’s military said. The Islamic Republic “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb,” Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told Haaretz in an Independence Day interview….
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Fast Forward Toulouse Victims’ Kin Mark Israel’s Memorial Day
Eva Sandler, the wife and mother of three victims of the Toulouse shooting, lit a memorial flame at a ceremony in Jerusalem honoring the victims of anti-Semitic attacks worldwide. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his two young sons Gabriel and Arieh were killed last month in a shooting outside the Ozar Hatorah school on Toulouse….
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