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Fast Forward Brazilian Jewish Group Apologizes For Anti-Palestinian Facebook Post
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Rio Jewish federation apologized for a Facebook post which called on the Jewish community to root against a Chilean soccer team founded by Palestinians slated to play against Brazil’s most popular team. The federation’s official Facebook profile with nearly 30,000 followers on Wednesday displayed the flags of the Flamengo and…
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Fast Forward Zionist Activists Shunned At SlutWalk Chicago
(JTA) — About a dozen activists from the “Zioness” initiative attempted to participate in SlutWalk Chicago. The group, which calls itself progressive and Zionist, had announced prior to Saturday’s demonstration that they would join in the annual demonstration against sexual violence to promote the idea that Zionism and liberal values are compatible. SlutWalk Chicago organizers…
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Fast Forward Conan O’Brien To Film Episode In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Talk show host Conan O’Brien announced that he will film an episode of his “Conan Without Borders” series on TBS in Israel. O’Brien made the announcement in a tweet on Friday night, in which he linked to a news story about President Trump sending his senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Condemn Charlottesville Violence, Trump’s Response
(JTA) — Jewish groups and Jewish leaders condemned the violence at a white supremacist event in Charlottesville, Virginia, and criticized President Trump for saying that the hatred and violence came from “many sides.” “The vile presence and rhetoric of the neo-Nazis who marched this weekend in Charlottesville is a reminder of the ever-present need for…
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Fast Forward Researchers Find Jewish Headstones At Nazi Killing Site Of Babi Yar
(JTA) — Before murdering tens of thousands of Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev, Nazi troops dumped at the killing site dozens of Jewish headstones they had stolen from Jewish cemetery, researchers in Ukraine discovered. “The tombstones were removed from a local Jewish cemetery during the Holocaust and thrown into the same ravines where over…
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Fast Forward Israelis Visited Temple Mount In Record Numbers Amid Tensions
(JTA) — July saw the largest number of Israelis visiting the Temple Mount in any single month since it came under Israeli control in 1967. Some 3,200 people visited the site, which is holy to Jews and to Muslims, who refer to the compound as Haram al Sharif, Army Radio reported Friday. In previous years,…
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Fast Forward Iran Bans Soccer Players For Competing Against Israelis
(JTA) — Two players on Iran’s national soccer team were banned for life from playing for their country for participating in a match against Israelis. The players, Masoud Shojaei, 33, the captain of the national team, and Ehsan Haji Safi, 27, one of Iran’s most promising players, were banned Thursday for playing for their Greek…
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Fast Forward ‘Son Of Sam’ Killer Says He’ll Die In Prison, Be Redeemed By God
(JTA) — Forty years after he terrorized New York with a string of deadly assaults, serial killer David Berkowitz said remorsefully that he expects to die in prison for actions which he cannot explain. Berkowitz, 64, said this during an interview published by the New York Daily News Thursday, the 40th anniversary of his arrest…
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