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Fast Forward In Israel, Huckabee Defends Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
During a visit to Israel, Mike Huckabee, an ex-governor of Arkansas and former candidate in the U.S. Republican presidential primaries, defended the anti-Muslim rhetoric of presumptive nominee Donald Trump, whom Huckabee said would make a “great president” for the Jewish state. “It’s not racist. I think a lot of people are acting like what Donald…
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Fast Forward Belgian Teens ‘Gassed’ Jewish Schoolmate With Deodorant in Showers, Mother Says
Belgian school students are suspected of anti-Semitic bullying against a Jewish classmate, whom they reportedly sprayed with deodorants in the showers in a reference to Nazi gas chambers. The alleged abuse took place over the past two years at an elementary school in the Brussels suburb of Braine-le-Chateau, according to a statement Friday by the…
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Fast Forward Irving Moskowitz, Controversial Pro-Settler Philanthropist, Dies at 88
Dr. Irving Moskowitz, an American Jewish philanthropist who stirred controversy by donating millions of dollars to Jewish settlement efforts in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, has died at 88. Arutz Sheva, a right-wing Israeli news site that he helped establish, his death Thursday. The Moskowitz Foundation he founded in 1968 along with his wife,…
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Fast Forward Sanders Says Working With Clinton to Defeat Trump Is Now the Priority
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders told his followers that the priority now was defeating Donald Trump and the bigotry he said the GOP nominee represented. He pledged to work with Hillary Clinton to make sure that happens, although he did not yet withdraw from the race for the Democratic presidential nod. “The major political task that…
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Fast Forward Local Patrol Continues Search for Missing NY Jewish Paddleboarder
The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a Jewish man who disappeared off the coast of New York’s Long Island, but a local safety patrol is continuing to look for him. On Tuesday, the Coast Guard quit its search for Gary Turkel, 41, who was last seen paddleboarding without a life jacket at Atlantic…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Hold Divided Service in Push To ‘Sabotage’ Western Wall Prayer Deal
In what is believed to be a first, Orthodox Jews temporarily took over the space at the Western Wall that has been designated for non-Orthodox prayer services. A — a physical divider separating men and women — was set up at the southern section of the Western Wall on Tuesday for a service led by Jerusalem Chief…
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Fast Forward Did Donald Trump Stiff Workers on Passover Getaway to Miami?
One of the many lawsuits alleging underpayment by Donald Trump is from workers who say they were denied overtime during a Passover event. Trump Miami Resort Management LLC last month settled with 48 workers who said they did not receive overtime during a 10-day Passover event at the Trump National Doral Miami, USA Today reported….
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Shoot Palestinian Suspected Terrorist Near Nablus
Israeli troops near Nablus shot and severely wounded a Palestinian man they said had tried to stab one of them. No Israelis were injured in the incident Friday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit told Army Radio. The suspected assailant was identified as Hasan Khalid al-Qadhi, 26, from the village of Awarta, Maan news…
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