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Fast Forward California Bars Cities From Limiting Circumcision
California’s state legislature approved a bill that would prevent the state’s municipalities from banning male circumcision. The California Assembly approved the bill Tuesday. The bill comes on the heels of two attempts in California to place circumcision bans on the November ballot. The bill now goes to California Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature and…
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Fast Forward J Street Opposes Unilateral Palestinian Statehood Bid
The liberal Jewish group J Street opposes Palestinian efforts to achieve statehood recognition through the United Nations, as well as plans to penalize the Palestinians for making the bid. “We believe that everything J Street stands for and what we do needs to promote the two-state solution and not just two states,” Jeremy Ben-Ami, the…
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Fast Forward Calif. Councilwoman Rebuked Over Remarks About Jews
The remarks of a councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif. which compared a Jewish businessman to Hitler, were publicly condemned by her colleagues. Members of the Santa Ana city council on Tuesday voted 4-3 to condemn Claudia Alvarez’s comments at a during an Aug. 24 debate on a tax for downtown property owners in comments directed…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Voting Site Won’t Move to Church
An attempt to move a voting site to a Brooklyn church was nixed over concerns that Orthodox Jews would be disenfranchised. According to a news release issued from his office, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew, intervened after residents in New York’s 73rd and 74th election districts were notified that their polling site was being…
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Fast Forward Ukrainians Demolish Synagogue To Build Hotel
The Ukraine government has begun the allegedly illegal demolition of a 16th century synagogue to build a hotel. The ruins of the elaborate “Golden Rose synagogue, ” a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1998, in the city of Lviv are being torn down to construct a hotel for the European soccer championships. The synagogue was…
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Fast Forward Turkey Suspends Defense Industry Ties to Israel
Turkey has suspended all defense industry ties with Israel and has halted all trade as well, pending a decision on permanently suspending trade, the country’s prime minister announced. “Trade ties, military ties, regarding defense industry ties, we are completely suspending them. This process will be followed by different measures,” Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
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News Gates Called Bibi ‘Ungrateful’ for Obama’s Support
Robert Gates, the former U.S. defense secretary, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “ungrateful” for Obama administration assistance and gave nothing in return. Gates made his remarks after a tense meeting in May between Netanyahu and President Obama, Jeffrey Goldberg, an Atlantic writer, wrote in a column Tuesday for Bloomberg News. Obama had just…
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Fast Forward Golda Meir Wanted Allies To Bomb Auschwitz
Golda Meir, the future Israeli prime minister, wanted the United States and its allies to bomb Auschwitz, researchers have learned. Researchers from the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies found documents in Israeli and American archives that shed light on Meir’s support for the unsuccessful campaign by Jewish leaders to persuade the Allied powers…
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