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Fast Forward Reform Rabbi Makes Fresh Push for Mixed Prayer at Western Wall
JERUSALEM — The head of the U.S. Reform movement led egalitarian prayers at the Western Wall plaza. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, on Monday held the prayer service with some 200 rabbis and lay leaders. Most were participating in a summer seminar at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a pluralist educational…
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Fast Forward Father of 10 Killed in West Bank Drive-By Attack Recalled as Altruistic Teacher
— More than 1,000 mourners attended the funeral for a father of 10 who was killed in a West Bank drive-by shooting. The funeral of Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark was held Sunday in the Otniel settlement in the West Bank followed by his burial in Jerusalem. Mark was killed Friday when terrorists opened fire on…
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Fast Forward British Police Want To Question Tzipi Livni Over Gaza ‘War Crimes’
British police asked Tzipi Livni to appear for an interview regarding war crimes allegations while she was Israeli foreign minister in 2008-2009. Livni, who was headed to London for a conference convened by the Haaretz newspaper, received the summons on Thursday before leaving Israel, the newspaper reported on Sunday. The summons was voluntary, and Livni…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back at Gaza After Rocket Hits Kindergarten Building
Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip hit a building in Sderot. The Associated Press reported that the building, hit Friday, was a kindergarten. In response, Israeli combat aircraft hit components of Hamas’ infrastructure in Gaza, the army said in a statement Saturday. No one was injured in the exchange. The kindergarten was empty at the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Killed as Family Come Under Fire Near West Bank Settlement
An Israeli man was killed and his wife was severely wounded in a shooting attack near a West Bank settlement. The attack Friday near Beit Hagai took place as the family traveled in their car on Route 60, Army Radio reported. Two of the family’s children were wounded: a 15-year-old boy, Pedayah, who sustained moderate…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Makes Emotional Visit To Family of Murdered 13-Year-Old Girl
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to strengthen the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, a major friction point between Palestinians and settlers following the murder of a 13-year-old girl in her bedroom. On Friday, his office said in a statement, Netanyahu spoke with the parents and other family members during an emotional visit to their…
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Fast Forward Scottish Woman Named ‘Miss Hitler 2016’ by Neo-Nazis
— A Scottish woman who said she turned to neo-Nazism after “the Jewish propaganda became too obvious to ignore” was named Miss Hitler 2016. National Action, a British white supremacist group, announced the winners of its contest on Twitter and on its blog earlier this week because Facebook removed the group’s page in May, shortly after…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Nazi Accused in Italy Massacre Deemed Unfit for Trial
BERLIN — Prosecutors in Stuttgart are shelving their war crimes investigation of a 94-year-old man who already was convicted of Nazi war crimes in Italy. Former SS soldier Wilhelm Kusterer of Engelsbrand — who was found guilty of involvement in the massacre of 770 civilians in Marzabotto, Italy, in 1944 and sentenced to life in prison in absentia in…
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