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Fast Forward 4 Park Slope Food Co-op Members Suspended for Disrupting Pro-BDS Presentation
NEW YORK — A popular Brooklyn cooperative grocery store that has been fighting about Israel boycott efforts for eight years reportedly suspended four pro-Israel members for interrupting a meeting more than a year ago. According to the Brooklyn Paper, four Park Slope Food Co-op members have been suspended for a year for interrupting an April 2015…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomats Escape Bloody Istanbul Airport Terror Attack
— Israel’s Foreign Ministry is working to determine whether any Israeli citizens were injured in a suicide bombing Tuesday night in Turkey that killed 36 people and injured at least 147. Two bombers blew themselves up at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, the third busiest in Europe, after opening fire at the entrance to the airport’s international…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Irks Neighbors With High Wall at Hawaii Home
— Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is angering neighbors with the privacy settings he’s building at his Hawaii vacation property. Zuckerberg is building a six-foot-tall wall around his waterfront property on the island of Kauai, and neighbors say it is blocking their ocean views and breezes, West Hawaii Today reported Tuesday. Zuckerberg, 32, is the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Rips Rejection of Ivanka Trump’s Conversion Rabbi
PARIS — The Jewish Agency for Israel’s governing body and chairman slammed the recent rejection by an Israeli rabbinical council of conversions performed by Haskel Lookstein, a prominent Orthodox rabbi in the United States. The condemnation came in a statement issued from the Jewish Agency chairman, Natan Sharansky, that was endorsed Tuesday by the board of…
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Fast Forward London Muslim Mayor Wants to ‘Do More To Protect’ Jews
— London Mayor Sadiq called for the rooting out of anti-Semitism in his city and in his party. Khan said he wants “to send a message around the world by being the London mayor of Islamic faith who does more to protect Jewish Londoners from anti-Semitism than any mayor in this city’s history.” Khan, a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Cheer Supreme Court Ruling Backing Abortion Rights
Several national Jewish organizations applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday striking down a Texas law that restricted access to abortion. In a 5-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said the HB2 law, which mandates that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was unconstitutional. The law would have required nearly half the state’s…
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Fast Forward 257 Newly Minted Chabad Rabbis Celebrate Ordination
A group of 257 rabbinical school graduates gathered at the Chabad movement’s Rabbinical College of America outside of Morristown, New Jersey. The rabbis, who received their rabbinic ordinations between 2012 and this year, took part in the celebratory ceremony on Sunday. This year’s cohort is slightly smaller than its largest ever group of 280, which…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Accuses Abbas of ‘Blood Libel’ in EU Speech
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of spreading a blood libel in his address Thursday to the European Parliament in Brussels. In the speech, which earned a standing ovation from parliament representatives, Abbas alleged that Israeli rabbis called this week for the poisoning of Palestinian water, a medieval anti-Semitic libel…
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