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Fast Forward Bloomberg Pledges $15 Million To Climate Efforts After Paris Accords Withdrawal
NEW YORK (JTA) — Following the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, Michael Bloomberg has pledged $15 million to the United Nations’ efforts against climate change. The media mogul and former New York City mayor is also coordinating a group of American governors, mayors, universities and businesses that remain committed to fulfilling the…
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Fast Forward Estonian Politician Vows To Legalize Holocaust Denial
(JTA) — An Estonian nationalist politician vowed in his election campaign to decriminalize denial of the Holocaust and outlaw instead revisionism on the Soviet domination of this country. Georg Kirsberg, who is running for a lawmaker’s seat for the Conservative People’s Party in Estonia’s elections in October, was quoted as saying this on Wednesday by…
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Fast Forward Israel Culture Minister Booed At Festival Over Threats To Cut Funding
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev was booed by the audience at the opening of the Israel Festival in Jerusalem in the wake of threats to withhold funds from performances that feature nudity. Regev was booed for several minutes, and many in the audience turned their back on her while she spoke. The…
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Fast Forward Trump Slammed By Jews For Pulling Out Of Paris Climate Accord
(JTA) — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, earning statements of dismay from critics, including liberal Jewish groups, who regard the pullout as a diplomatic and environmental disaster. Speaking Thursday at ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump said…
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Fast Forward Jewish Group Providing Emergency Aid To Storm-Struck Sri Lanka
(JTA) — The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is responding with emergency aid to catastrophic flooding and mudslides in Sri Lanka. More than 200 people have been confirmed dead and at least 100 missing in the worst storms to hit the island nation since 2003. JDC, together with its local partner Sarvodaya, a Buddhist-inspired humanitarian…
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Fast Forward European Parliament Officially Defines Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — The European Parliament voted Thursday to adopt a resolution calling on member states and their institutions to apply the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Most of the 28 European Union states participate in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, though only Austria, Romania and the United Kingdom have formally…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Town Refuses To Rename Women’s Center Named For Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian town has refused to change the name of a women’s center that was named for a female Palestinian terrorist. The center in the West Bank village of Buraq was named for Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 massacre on a highway near Tel Aviv that killed 37 civilians, many of…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Soldiers Urged To Kill Female Colleagues
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Police have launched an investigation into signs calling on haredi Orthodox men who are drafted into the Israel Defense Forces to kill female soldiers and commanders. The signs were found hanging in the haredi Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim on Wednesday, during the holiday of Shavuot. The poster reads: “Dear yeshiva…
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