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Fast Forward Transgender Israeli Arab Wins Historic Tel Aviv Pageant
A Christian Arab-Israeli ballet dancer won Israel’s first-ever transgender beauty pageant. Ta’alin Abu Hanna, 21, was named “Miss Trans Israel” in Tel Aviv Friday, the Jerusalem Post . Abu Hanna told reporters she is “proud to be an Israeli Arab,” noting, “If I had not been in Israel and had been elsewhere — in Palestine…
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Fast Forward Former Child Actor Corey Feldman Says He Was Molested, Friend Raped in Hollywood
Amid reports on pedophilia rings in Hollywood, former child-actor Corey Feldman said he and another boy were molested in their youth by people in show business. , star of such iconic 1980s movies as “The Goonies,” “Stand by Me” and “The Lost Boys,” said this during an interview published Wednesday with The Hollywood Reporter. “With me, there were some molestations,…
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Fast Forward Arab States Have Reportedly Hand-Picked Palestinian Leader to Succeed Abbas
The United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan are reportedly planning to have former Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan replace Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Citing unnamed senior Palestinian and Jordanian sources, Middle East Eye Friday on the joint plan to bring Dahlan, the former leader of Abbas’ Fatah party in the Gaza Strip, back from exile in the…
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg, in Harvard Commencement Speech, Says Anti-Semitism on the Rise
Speaking at Harvard University’s commencement, filmmaker Steven Spielberg said he was “wrong” as a kid to think anti-Semitism “was fading.” Spielberg, whose 99-year-old father Arnold sat in one of the first rows at his address before the Ivy League university’s class of 2016, told the graduates Thursday that the world “is full of monsters” espousing…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Government May Be Near Collapse, Report Says
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be on the verge of collapse, according to Israel’s Channel 10. In a report Friday night, the TV station quoted unnamed “party leaders” saying that Netanyahu’s surprise move to bring the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party into the coalition may be backfiring on him. In the past eight days, two ministers…
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Fast Forward Crash Kills Three Workers at Jewish Camp in Pennsylvania
Three staff members of a Jewish camp in eastern Pennsylvania were killed when the van they were traveling in lost control and drove into a drainage pond near the camp just before 1 a.m. Thursday. The two men and a woman, including the driver, were all seasonal workers at Camp Shoshanim, a summer camp for…
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Fast Forward 2nd Israeli Cabinet Minister Quits In Protest of Netanyahu Policies
Israel’s environmental protection minister resigned, citing the recent dismissal of former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and disagreements on policy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Avi Gabai, a member of the center-right Kulanu party, announced his resignation on Friday, a week after Yaalon following Netanyahu’s decision to replace him as defense minister with Avigdor Liberman of…
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Fast Forward Bibi Scolds New Israeli Lawmaker Who Called for End to Temple Mount Ban
At his Knesset swearing-in speech, longtime Temple Mount activist and new Likud lawmaker Yehuda Glick called for an end to the ban on Jewish prayer at the Jerusalem compound. Glick, who officially became a Knesset member Wednesday, filling a vacancy left by former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on the party’s list, has promised he will…
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