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Fast Forward IDF Announces New Operation: A War On Smoking
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has opened a new war – against smoking. The military announced Sunday that on November 1 that it will stop selling cigarettes on 65 bases across the country and that it will prohibit smoking in public areas of the bases and will provide limited smoking areas. The IDF’s…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Supreme Leader Tweets Warning To West Of ‘Wrong Moves’
(JTA) — Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran‘s supreme leader, warned the West of unspecified consequences should it increase pressure on Iran regarding the nuclear deal and other issues. U.S. and European officials will in coming weeks consider means of increasing pressure on Iran for its missile tests, its backing for terrorism and its military adventurism. “Any #WrongMove,…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash With Police In Protest Against IDF Conscription
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Haredi Orthodox protesters demonstrated in Jerusalem against conscription in the Israel Defense Forces. The protesters clashed with police on Sunday during the demonstrations in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim, leading to the arrest of at least 8 protesters. At least two teenage protesters were injured in the melee, Ynet…
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Fast Forward Mitchell Flint, U.S. Pilot Who Helped Create Israeli Air Force, Dies At 94
(JTA) — Mitchell Flint, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot who helped create the Israeli Air Force in 1948, has died. Flint died on Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 94. Flint served in Israel’s first fighter squadron, as one of the founding members of Machal, a group of non-Israelis who fought in…
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Fast Forward Florida ‘Hot Cop’ Suspended Over Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
(JTA) — A Florida police officer has been suspended with pay after complaints that he posted anti-Semitic comments on his Facebook page. A selfie of police officer Michael Hamill and two other Gainesville, Florida, police officers was posted on the department’s Facebook page, showing the officers helping the community in the wake of Hurricane Irma….
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Fast Forward Israel Will Fix Adoption Law To Give Same-Sex Couples Equal Rights
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government said it would amend adoption law in the country to give same-sex couples equal rights. The state on Sunday made the announcement during a hearing at the Supreme Court in response to a petition regarding adoption by same-sex and common-law couples. The state said it would introduce the new…
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Fast Forward Imam Who Asked Allah To ‘Destroy The Jews’ Won’t Be Prosecuted
MONTREAL (JTA) — Quebec prosecutors will not file hate crimes charges against an imam for saying at a Montreal mosque that he prayed for Allah to “destroy the accursed Jews.” In a November 2014 video seen on YouTube, Sayyed Al-Ghitawi said at the Al-Andalous Islamic Center that Allah will kill Jews “one by one.” B’nai Brith…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Shares Family Shabbat Photos
(JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg gave his daughter Max a kiddush cup that belonged to her great-great-grandfather Max. Zuckerberg posted a photo of young Max drinking from the cup in her father’s arms, alongside a marble kitchen counter topped with two lit Shabbat candles and challahs under a white cover. “For shabbat tonight, we gave Max…
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