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Fast Forward Jeweler To The Stars Denies Murder Cover-Up
(JTA) — A New York jeweler whose clients include Melania Trump, Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Lopez denied accusations in a civil lawsuit that he helped cover up a murder in his apartment building by his adoptive son. The suit was filed last week against Jeffrey Rackover, 57, in New York State Supreme Court in connection…
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Fast Forward Controversial Conversion Law Would Be Frozen Under Deal With Ultra-Orthodox
(JTA) — Government sources in Israel said the ruling Likud party had reached a deal with Haredi coalition partners on the future of conversions to Judaism in Israel. The deal entails preserving the current status quo on conversion in Israel for six months, with parties working for and against state recognition for conversions without Orthodox…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Accused Of Illegally Killing Gaza Fisherman
(JTA) — The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released footage of what it said was the unlawful slaying of a Palestinian fishermen by Israeli troops last month. The video, published Thursday on the online edition of the Haaretz daily and filmed on May 15 off the coast of Gaza, shows a fishing boat with…
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Life Simone Veil, French Feminist And Politician Who Survived The Holocaust, Dies
(JTA) — Simone Veil, a well-known French politician and Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 89. Veil, a scholar, former judge, feminist activist and former minister of health who in 2012 was awarded France’s highest honor, passed away this week in her home in Paris, her family told the media in France Friday. Veil,…
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Fast Forward Robbers Desecrate Mass Grave Of Holocaust Victims In Crimea
(JTA) — Police in Crimea, a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, are investigating the desecration by robbers of a mass grave of Holocaust victims near the city of Simferopol. The investigation opened Tuesday following the unauthorized exhumations performed last week at the site of a firing trench, where Nazis and their collaborators…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomat Balk At Order To Blame Liberal Jews For Western Wall Crisis
(JTA) – Israeli diplomats in North America rejected a talking point handed down to them from Jerusalem to blame Liberal Jews for the Western Wall controversy. The top diplomats refused to repeat the narrative that Jonathan Shechter, a top advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, handed down to them earlier this week in telephone…
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Fast Forward U.S. Jewish Lawmakers Criticize Netanyahu For Suspending Western Wall Agreement
(JTA) — Four Jewish members of Congress criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspension of an agreement to build a non-Orthodox prayer space at the Western Wall. Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Jerry Nadler of New York joined Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida in criticizing Netanyahu for reneging on the deal in a Sunday Cabinet vote. The…
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Fast Forward U.N. Forum On Palestinians Is Anti-Israel, World Jewish Congress Protests
(JTA) — The World Jewish Congress protested a United Nations forum on the Palestinians, describing it as “anti-Israel.” “This week, a United Nations body will once again vilify the State of Israel,” the group said Thursday, the first day of a two-day forum at the U.N. headquarters in New York titled “Ending the Occupation.” The…
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