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Fast Forward Former Israeli PM Olmert Leaves Prison, Requests Lifting Of Parole Restrictions
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert left prison on early release and then submitted a request to have his parole restrictions completely removed. Olmert left prison early Sunday morning after serving 16 months of a 27-month sentence. The prison parole board on Thursday granted him early release for good behavior. Later Sunday…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu To Lift Ban On Lawmakers Visiting Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli lawmakers will be allowed to visit the Temple Mount for a trial period. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lift the ban later this month for five days, during which time the government will determine whether the visits cause violence at the site that is holy to both Jews and Muslims. The…
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Fast Forward New German Law Curbs Hate Speech, Holocaust Denial On Social Networks
BERLIN (JTA) — The German parliament passed a new law Friday designed to curb hate speech and libel on social networks. The law requires Internet platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove material with obviously illegal content and fake defamatory “news” within 24 hours of its having been reported. Previously, illegal material was reported but did not have to be…
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Fast Forward Hundreds In Jerusalem Protest Bills Bashing Liberal Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem to protest government moves seen as targeting liberal streams of Judaism. The protesters who gathered in Jerusalem on Saturday night carried signs including “Judaism without coercion,” and “We are all Women of the Wall.” The demonstration was organized by…
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Fast Forward 65% Of Latin American Jewish Leaders Fear Communities Are Terror Targets
(JTA) — Sixty-five percent of Latin American Jewish leaders fear that their community could suffer a terrorist attack, a new survey found. That figure climbs to 90 percent of Argentinean Jewish leaders, whose community already has suffered two terrorist attacks: in 1992 on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 and injured 242;…
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Fast Forward Teen Arrested In Vandalism Of NY Jewish Camp Charged With Hate Crime
(JTA) — A local teenager has been arrested and charged with vandalizing a Jewish camp in upstate New York. Camp Shomria in Liberty, New York, run by the Hashomer Hatzair movement, was broken into on June 12. The interior and exterior of several of the buildings was damaged and covered in anti-Semitic graffiti. Christopher Santoro,…
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Fast Forward Watchdog: BDS Movement’s Campaign Against Jewish Comedian Is Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — A Tunisian anti-racism watchdog group accused promoters of a boycott against Israel of anti-Semitism after they protested the invitation extended to a Jewish comedian to appear at a local festival. The accusation Thursday by the Tunisian Association for Support of Minorities was over an open letter sent earlier this week to the Tunisian Ministry…
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Fast Forward Jewish Couple Marries On Temple Mount In Defiance Of Ban
(JTA) — An Israeli couple married on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem despite rules prohibiting Jews from carrying out religious rituals at the holy site. Tom Nisani and Sara Lurcat wed Thursday in a rushed ceremony at the site where the First and Second Temples once stood. Jews are forbidden from praying at the site, which is home to…
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