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Fast Forward Ivanka And Jared Expected To Go To Israel With Trump
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are expected to accompany President Donald Trump on his first visit to Israel next month. It is not clear whether first lady Melania Trump will join the delegation at the end of May, the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot reported Thursday. Ivanka Trump, the president’s Jewish daughter, and…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen’s National Front Replacement Is Holocaust Denier
(JTA) – The man who has replaced Marine Le Pen at the helm of France’s far-right National Front claimed in 2000 that the poison used by Nazis to kill Jews in the Holocaust could not have been applied in reality. Jean-François Jalkh, who took Le Pen’s place this week so that she can focus on her…
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Fast Forward 700 Teens Teach Holocaust Survivors To Surf The Internet
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nearly 700 Israeli teens studying in science and technology schools in Israel are teaching Holocaust survivors to use computers and the internet. The students meet weekly in pairs with survivors in 22 cities across Israel through a program called Mechubarim, which means connected. Students have helped the survivors to search for family…
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Fast Forward Women Smuggle Torah Scroll Into Western Wall Prayer Service
Hundreds of women joined Women of the Wall for the group’s monthly Rosh Chodesh service, which included a Torah scroll smuggled in to the women’s section of the Western Wall. Among the some 300 women who assembled for the service on Thursday morning to mark the new Hebrew month of Iyar were those from nine…
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Fast Forward Eastern Europe Urged To Return Stolen Jewish Property
(JTA) — The United States’ special envoy for Holocaust issues urged East European nations to honor their largely-unimplemented promise from 2009 to offer restitution for property stolen from Jews. Thomas K. Yazdgerdi appealed to these countries “to provide justice for survivors and their families for the expropriation of their property” during a high-level conference in Brussels Wednesday on…
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Fast Forward France Detains 10 For Ties To 2015 Kosher Supermarket Killings
(JTA) — French police have detained 10 people in the investigation of the deadly 2015 attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris, sources close to the probe told Agence France Presse on Wednesday. The suspects include a suspected arms trafficker, Claude Hermant. Investigators are seeking to ascertain how the assailant, France-based jihadist Amedy Coulibaly, obtained the…
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Fast Forward Hoops Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Studying Hebrew
(JTA) — Six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire may soon be able to add another skill to his impressive resume: Hebrew. The 34-year-old basketball player, who moved to Israel after signing a two-year deal with the Israeli basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem in August, is now learning the aleph-bet, the Hebrew alphabet. Stoudemire —who isn’t Jewish but identifies with the Hebrew Israelites, African-Americans who believe they are…
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Fast Forward Israel Gets First Same-Sex Conjugal Prison Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Prison Service for the first time granted a same-sex conjugal visit for a prisoner. The decision reportedly was made Tuesday, though the Hebrew-language Walla news website reported that the visit took place a day earlier. Zaor Hankishayev took the Israel Prison Service to court two years ago in order to…
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