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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Rises in U.S., ADL Report Says
Anti-Semitism in the United States has increased slightly since 2009, according to an Anti-Defamation League survey. Results of the 2011 Survey of American Attitudes Towards Jews in America released Thursday showed that 15 percent of Americans hold anti-Semitic views, an increase of 3 percent since 2009 but matching levels in 2007 and 2005. The survey…
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News Amid War Talk, Obama Calls for Pressure on Iran
President Obama called for keeping up international pressure on Iran amid news reports that Israel may be preparing for war with the Islamic Republic. The president’s comments, made Thursday at a joint news conference in France with President Nicolas Sarkozy, were delivered several days before the scheduled release of a new report by the International…
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Fast Forward Israel Freezes Contribution to UNESCO
Israel will freeze its annual contribution to UNESCO in the wake of the agency’s vote to give full membership to the Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel’s $2 million annual contribution to the United Nations cultural agency would be withheld and instead be directed to cooperative initiatives in the region working toward…
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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Shouldn’t Go to Beach: Lawmaker
A lawmaker from the haredi Orthodox Shas Party said Gilad Shalit should have spent his first Shabbat of freedom not at the beach but praying in synagogue. Meshulam Nahari also said during a Shas convention this week that the 25-year-old soldier should have recited the benediction of deliverance in synagogue, a Jewish prayer of thanksgiving…
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Fast Forward Food Coop Wants Israel Boycott Suit Dismissed
A Washington State food co-op that is boycotting Israeli products has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by pro-Israel activist members. The motion, filed Wednesday in state Superior Court in Thurston County, asserts that the lawsuit filed in September by five members of the Olympia Food Co-Op runs afoul of a 2010 Washington…
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Fast Forward Israeli Rabbi Charged With Sex Abuse
Modern Orthodox leader Rabbi Mordechai “Motti” Elon was indicted for the sexual assault of a minor. The Jerusalem prosecutors’ office filed the indictment Wednesday with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court. The alleged assault took place in 2005 against a student who had come to Elon for advice, according to the indictment. Another offense reportedly took place…
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Fast Forward Anti-Arab Yeshiva Shut Down by Israel
Israel’s Education Ministry has closed down a West Bank yeshiva high school whose students have been identified as being involved in attacks against Palestinians. The Dorshei Yehudcha yeshiva high school reportedly was ordered closed last week by the Education Ministry, following the recommendation of the Shin Bet security service. The school of about 100 students…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Won’t Treat Le Pen as VIP
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Front National and a contender in France’s presidential elections next year, will not receive special treatment when she visits the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Le Pen, the daughter of Jean Marie Le Pen, the founder of the party who has a conviction for Holocaust denial, said in a…
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