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Fast Forward Jewish Students Get Fake Eviction Notices
More than 200 Jewish students at Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus received fake eviction notices from a pro-Palestinian group. The notices were posted March 30 by the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine, the Florida Jewish Journal reported April 5. The notices were posted to draw attention to the alleged number of Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Biden Will Speak at Conservative Meeting
Vice President Joe Biden will address the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly. Biden will speak at the RA convention in Atlanta on May 8, the movement announced Monday. His speech is the latest in an intensive election-year outreach to Jewish Americans by the administration. President Obama in recent months has addressed the Reform movement and the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum To Honor Burma Dissident
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will honor Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the democracy movement in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Suu Kyi, who recently won a seat in her country’s parliament under democracy reforms, spent most of 1989 through 2010 under house arrest in what had been a totalitarian regime. She will…
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News Israeli Soldiers Get Un-Kosher Food on Passover
sraeli soldiers in the Kfir Brigade ate salami and matzah for their seder meal after a base chef heated up the real seder food inappropriately, rendering it unkosher. The infantry brigade returned to base from a mission at the start of Passover expecting a festive holiday meal, but the base chef had begun to heat…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Worry Over Arrests of Journalists
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi expressed concern over the recent arrests of Palestinian journalists and bloggers over comments critical of the Palestinian Authority. “Freedom of expression and access to information is enshrined in the basic principles of the Palestinian Basic Law … it is unacceptable to detain journalists, bloggers or Palestinian activists,” Ashrawi, who is…
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Fast Forward Report: Mohel in Newborn Death Has Herpes
A New York mohel tied to the death from herpes of one newborn and to three others who contracted the disease, apparently tested positive for herpes, The Jewish Week reported. Yitzchok Fischer, who was ordered in 2007 to stop the circumcision ritual of metzitzah b’peh, in which the mohel orally suctions blood from the circumcision…
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Fast Forward Four Arrested for Calling for Gender Segregation
Two secular Jewish teens hired to call for gender segregation on Jerusalem buses were arrested by police. The youths, ages 16 and 17, reportedly stood at a bus stop near the Dung Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday and used a megaphone to call for women to board the buses leaving from…
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Fast Forward ’60 Minutes’ Icon Mike Wallace Is Dead
Veteran journalist Mike Wallace, who appeared on the CBS news program “60 Minutes” from its first airing, has died. Wallace died Saturday at the age of 93, CBS “Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer announced Sunday morning on the program. He died at a care facility in New Haven, Conn., where he had been living…
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