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Fast Forward Federal Court To Hear Jewish Groups’ Challenge To Trump Refugee Ban
(JTA) — A federal court in Seattle will hear an argument brought by Jewish groups challenging the latest Trump administration ban on refugees. One of the two challenges being heard, Jewish Family Service v. Trump, has been brought by HIAS, the Jewish immigration advocacy group, on behalf of its partners, Jewish Family Service of Seattle and Jewish…
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Fast Forward Did The Iran Deal Lead Obama To Stop Fighting Hezbollah Cocaine Trafficking?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Several Obama administration-era security officials are claiming that the administration’s pursuit of the Iran nuclear deal frustrated their pursuit of what they described as Hezbollah’s expanding drug-dealing empire. In a long article published over the weekend, Politico quoted three officials who ran Operation Cassandra, a task force principally run by the Drug…
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Fast Forward UN: Israeli Probe Of Palestinian Amputee Protester’s Death ‘Insufficient’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.N. human rights chief said an Israeli military probe that cleared troops of any wrongdoing in the death of a paraplegic Palestinian protester was “insufficient.” Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the world body’s high commissioner for human rights, said “facts” gathered by his staffers strongly suggest that excessive force was used against Ibrahim…
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Fast Forward U.N. Will Hold Rare Emergency Session On Trump’s Jerusalem Recognition
NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations General Assembly will hold an emergency session on President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to a Palestinian official. The main representative organ of the U.N., which includes all 193 of the international body’s members, is holding a rare emergency meeting on Thursday…
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Fast Forward Technion Opens Israel’s First University Campus In China
(JTA) — The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology became the first Israeli university to open a campus in China. On Monday, the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology opened in Shantou, in the Guangdong province on the southeast coast. The university is a partnership between the Haifa-based university, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and the Guangdong provincial…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Calls Holocaust A ‘Hell’ In Book On Nazi Medical Experiments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Pope Francis condemned the Holocaust and the medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on Jewish concentration camp inmates. The pope’s condemnation appears in an introduction he wrote in an upcoming book written by three Argentine doctors about the Nazi medical experiments. His co-author is his longtime Argentine friend Rabbi Abraham…
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Fast Forward Synagogues Across Canada Get Hate Mail Saying ‘Jewry Must Perish’
MONTREAL (JTA) — At least three synagogues in Canada received hate mail warning that “Jewry must perish.” Police are investigating the envelopes delivered Monday to two synagogues in Montreal and one in Toronto. Each featured a drawing of a bleeding Star of David enclosing a Nazi swastika with the slogan “Jewry must perish.” B’nai Brith…
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Fast Forward Daring Leader Of Escape From Auschwitz Dies At 98
BERLIN (JTA) — Kazimierz Piechowski, a non-Jewish political prisoner who led a daring escape from the Auschwitz death camp using the truck of its commandant, has died at 98. Piechowski died Saturday in Gdansk, Poland. He was one of four men in the escape plan involving stolen SS uniforms and weapons, and the truck of Rudolf…
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