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News Farrakhan Blasts Jews for Pushing War With Iran
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the media and accused “Zionists” of trying to push America into war with Iran. Farrakhan spoke for three hours Sunday before a crowd of thousands at the 82nd annual Saviors’ Day celebration in Chicago. In his address, along with the accusation about…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Helps Crisis-Hit Greek Jews
The Jewish Agency will provide emergency aid to the Jewish community of Greece facing a serious financial crisis. The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel on Monday voted to grant about $1 million over two years to help Greece’s Jewish communal institutions continue operating, as well as to strengthen the community’s ties…
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Fast Forward Judge Tosses Anti-BDS Lawsuit
A lawsuit seeking to overturn a Washington state food co-op’s boycott of Israeli goods was dismissed in state Superior Court. Thurston County Superior Court Judge Thomas McPhee on Monday rejected the lawsuit that was filed last September by five members of the Olympia Food Co-Op. McPhee said the lawsuit runs afoul of a 2010 Washington…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Admit More Ethiopian Immigrants
Israel will increase the number of immigrants from Ethiopia for the next several months after bringing in many fewer than it had promised. Some 1,000 Falash Mura, Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity, will be brought to Israel over the next four months, about 250 per month. Officials from the Prime Minister’s Office,…
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Fast Forward Nazi Hunter Eyes German Presidency
Veteran Nazi-hunter and left-party member Beate Klarsfeld has jumped into the German political fray, as an alternative candidate for president. Her decision to run comes amid growing criticism of the current sole nominee – Joachim Gauck, former East German anti-Communist activist who later was the first to head the post-unification commission investigating the archives of…
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Fast Forward ADL Raps Santorum for Church-State Comments
The Anti-Defamation League once again reprimanded Rick Santorum for his advocacy of a church role in governing. Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator vying for the GOP presidential nod, told ABC over the weekend that a landmark 1960 speech outlining church-state separations by then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy almost made him “throw up.” “To say that…
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Fast Forward Rejected! Texas Hoops Team Must Play on Shabbat
An Orthodox high school in Texas was rejected in its request to have the state basketball semifinals rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the Jewish Sabbath. In a decision Monday, the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools informed the Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston that semifinal games scheduled for Friday night and Saturday…
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Fast Forward Birthright Trips Pump $500 Million Into Israel
Taglit-Birthright Israel has contributed more than $535 million to Israel’s economy since the trip’s inception in 2000, the organization said. The contribution to Israel’s tourism industry comes from providing transportation, lodging, food, training, security, entry to tourist sites and air travel during the free 10-day trips to Israel for Jews aged 18 to 26. Since…
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