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Fast Forward Netanyahu Mulls Shutting Down Al Jazeera In Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would seek to pass a law to shut down the Jerusalem bureau of Al Jazeera if law enforcement will not do so after his multiple requests. “The Al Jazeera network does not stop inciting to violence on the Temple Mount issue,” Netanyahu posted Wednesday in…
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Fast Forward British Anti-Semitic Incidents Soar To Record
(JTA) — The Jewish community of the United Kingdom recorded 767 anti-Semitic attacks in the first half of 2017 — the highest figure recorded within six months since monitoring began in 1984. The total number of incidents recorded from Jan. 1 to July 1 by the Community Security Trust, British Jewry’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, constitute…
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Fast Forward Dutch Party Distances Itself From Call For Circumcision Ban
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Netherlands’ third largest party, which is a potential coalition partner, distances itself from calls by some of its younger leaders to ban circumcision. In an email sent last week to JTA, Roy Kramer, a senior spokesperson for the D66 left-leaning party last week wrote that his party, which in the March…
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Fast Forward Trump, Congress Step Up Pressure On Iran
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump said he would be “surprised” if the United States adjudicates Iran in compliance with the nuclear deal in three months. “We’ll talk about the subject in 90 days, but I would be surprised if they were in compliance,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The United States must…
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Fast Forward Connecticut Rabbi Charged With Raping Yeshiva Student
(JTA) — A prominent Connecticut rabbi was charged in the alleged sexual assault of a minor two months after he was ordered to pay a civil judgment of $20 million relating to the same allegations. Rabbi Daniel Greer, 77, the founding rabbi of the Yeshiva of New Haven, turned himself in to police Wednesday morning and…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Artifacts Sent On Tour For First Time
(JTA) — The museum at Auschwitz announced the first traveling exhibit about the Nazi concentration and extermination camp featuring more than 600 original artifacts. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland announced the exhibit in a news release Wednesday, saying it will visit seven cities in Europe beginning with Madrid and the same number in North…
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Fast Forward Ex-Nazi Stripped Of Citizenship — For Fourth Time
MONTREAL (JTA) — A 93-year-old ex-Nazi stripped of his Canadian citizenship for an unprecedented fourth time is vowing to appeal the decision yet again. Last week, Canada revoked the citizenship of Helmut Oberlander, a retired developer in Waterloo, Ontario, who has been accused of hiding his Nazi past before obtaining citizenship in 1960. The government…
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Fast Forward French Justice Minister Won’t Intervene In Jewish Woman’s Murder Case
(JTA) — Citing the constitutional principle of separation of powers, France’s justice minister said she would not intervene in the trial of a killer whom French Jews said should be charged with a hate crime. The minister, Nicole Belloubet, said this at the beginning of a meeting she had with the president of the CRIF…
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