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Fast Forward Thousands March In Tel Aviv To Protest Government Corruption
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv to protest against corruption in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while a right-wing rally to protest the same gathered only a few hundred. The Jerusalem rally on Saturday night was designed to draw those who wanted to express their anger about government corruption…
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Fast Forward Former Marine Who Planned Terror Attack Was Angry About Jerusalem Recognition
(JTA) — A former U.S. Marine arrested for plotting a Christmas Day terror attack in San Francisco said he was angry in part because U.S. President Donald Trump decided to “give away (Jerusalem) to the Jews,” according to the FBI. Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, California, was arrested and charged with attempting to provide…
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Fast Forward House Passes Bill Allowing Disaster Funds For Houses Of Worship
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that allows federal disaster relief funds to go to houses of worship. On Thursday, the House voted 251-169 to approve the bill. The vote was not strictly along party lines, although more Republicans than Democrats favored it. The Senate is considering a similar bill….
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Fast Forward Israeli Diamond Billionaire Sanctioned By U.S. Anti-Corruption Law
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dan Gertler, an Israeli with extensive investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is among the first people targeted for sanctions under a new U.S. anti-international corruption law. Dan Gertler is among “13 serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors,” the Treasury Department said in a release Thursday, who would be…
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Fast Forward Israel Joins US In Announcing Withdrawal From UNESCO
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the country’s foreign ministry to withdraw from UNESCO. Netanyahu made the announcement that Israel would be joining the United States in withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on Sunday during the weekly Cabinet meeting. “I think that this is appropriate, given this organization’s…
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Fast Forward Austrian Leader, Allied With Far-Right Party, Vows To Fight Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz vowed to prioritze “combating anti-Semitism in all its forms” in his first speech since taking office. Kurz, 31, spoke Wednesday amid warnings by several Jewish groups that the rise of Kurz’s coalition partners — the far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom Party — could foster a rise in anti-Semitism. “We will determinedly…
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Fast Forward Lorde Thanks Pro-Palestinian Fans Who Are Urging Her To Cancel Israel Concert
(JTA) — Pop star Lorde is considering canceling her upcoming concert in Tel Aviv after pro-Palestinian fans in her native New Zealand criticized her. New Zealanders Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs — the former Palestinian and the latter Jewish — wrote an open letter on Thursday on the website The Spinoff saying that Lorde’s scheduled performance…
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Fast Forward Montenegro Is Set To Get Its First New Synagogue In Centuries
(JTA) — Montenegro’s foremost politicians joined their president and faith community leaders for the first laying in centuries of a cornerstone for a synagogue in the area that now comprises that Balkan nation. President Philip Vujanovic was joined Tuesday at the synagogue’s construction site by the acting and former mayors of the capital of Podgorica,…
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