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Fast Forward 2 Spanish Cities Reverse BDS Motions Following Legal Action
(JTA) — Two municipalities in Spain rescinded their adhesion to the campaign to boycott Israel following legal action by a Madrid-based organization devoted to defending the Jewish state. The city council of Villarrobledo, a city of 25,000 that is located 100 miles southeast of Madrid and is known for its wine industry, scrapped last week…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Donor Adam Milstein Denies Report That He Funds Canary Mission
(JTA) — Real-estate investor Adam Milstein denied a report that he is a funder of Canary Mission, an anonymous website that aims to name and shame anti-Israel activists. Milstein’s charity, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, donates to a number of groups that work on campus from a right-wing pro-Israel perspective, including Students Supporting…
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Fast Forward Israeli Equestrian Rider Withdraws From Championship Due To Yom Kippur Conflict
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli equestrian rider has withdrawn from next month’s world championships since the competition will take place on Yom Kippur. The International Equestrian Federation event, which will take place this year in North Carolina, is a prelude to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where Israel’s equestrian federation hopes to compete for…
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Fast Forward Western Wall Egalitarian Prayer Section Expanded Thanks To Loophole
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plan to expand the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section received final approval, using a special regulation to authorize the work in order to make it a handicapped-accessible site. The approval was first reported late Sunday in Haaretz, which did not say when the meeting to approve the work took place. Approval…
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Fast Forward Suspect Identified In Anti-Semitic Graffiti Attack On Jewish Center In Russia
(JTA) — Russian authorities identified a suspect in the scrawling of anti-Semitic graffiti on the wall of a Jewish center in the Russian village of Lyubavichi, the cradle of the Chabad Hasidic movement. The suspect was a man from Murmansk, a city located hundreds of miles north of Lyubavichi, according to Yuri Ivashkin, the mayor…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Synagogue Sues Over Destuctive Skirball Fire
(JTA) — The Leo Baeck Temple in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air has filed a lawsuit against the city and county over last year’s Skirball Fire. The fire, which broke out on Dec. 6, 2017, destroyed six homes and damaged 12 others, and required the evacuation of about 700 homes as well as…
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Fast Forward Bodyguards Needed For Jewish Delegates At British Labour Party Conference
(JTA) — Jewish delegates to the upcoming British Labour Party conference will be given bodyguards over fears for their safety from supporters of party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The protection also will be offered to Jewish Labour Party lawmakers, the Daily Mail reported late Saturday. The newspaper reported that the Jewish Labour Movement has held talks…
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Fast Forward Settler Youths Injure Left-Wing Activists In Scuffle At Unauthorized Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five left-wing activists documenting illegal settlement construction said they were injured in an attack by a group of Jewish settler youth. The activists from the NGO Ta’ayush: Arab Jewish Partnership were taking photographs on Saturday in the unauthorized outpost of Mitzpe Yair, located in the South Hebron Hills. The group said in…
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