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Fast Forward Obama Decries Rise of Anti-Semitism in Jewish Heritage Month Message
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama decried the “rise of anti-Semitism” in his annual proclamation of May as Jewish American Heritage Month. “We cannot pay proper respect to the legacy of Jewish Americans without also reflecting on the rise of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in remembering the lessons of the Holocaust,…
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News Donald Trump Slams President Obama as ‘No Friend of Israel’ in Major Address
In a foreign policy speech panning President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, Donald Trump said Obama has been no friend to Israel. “Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East, has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity,” Trump said in his speech delivered at the Mayflower…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Lays Off ‘Hundreds’ of Staffers After String of Defeats
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he plans to lay off “hundreds” of campaign staffers throughout the country a day after winning just one of five primaries on Tuesday. Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major nominating contests, The New York Times that he is focusing his campaign on winning the California primary in…
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Fast Forward UK’s Labour Suspends Lawmaker Who Called for Israel’s Relocation
A British Parliament member who in a 2014 Facebook post called for relocating the entire State of Israel to the United States has been suspended from the Labour Party. Naz Shah, who is Muslim, was suspended Wednesday by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn a day after she resigned from her post as private secretary to the Parliament’s shadow…
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Fast Forward Mixed-Up Israeli Runner Starts London Marathon at Finish by Mistake
A police officer from Haifa was the last runner to start this year’s London Marathon after he mixed up the finish line for the starting line. Interviewed by the BBC near the starting line, Hagai Penkar explained that he showed up first at the finish line on Sunday after plugging the wrong information into his…
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Fast Forward Israel Press Freedom Rating Dropped by Watchdog Group
Freedom House, a freedom of the press watchdog, downgraded Israel’s status from “free” to “partly free,” citing the Israel Hayom daily, which is seen as pro-government. “Israel declined due to the growing impact of Yisrael Hayom [sic], whose owner-subsidized business model endangered the stability of other media outlets, and the unchecked expansion of paid content…
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Fast Forward Milan Chabad Rabbi Charged With Beating Son for Not Going to Synagogue
Police in Milan have arrested a rabbi for domestic violence after he allegedly hit and verbally abused one of his eight children. Police arrested the man, identified as 42-year-old M.E., a rabbi at the Chabad center at piazza Castello, on Sunday night after being alerted by his wife, Italian media reported. The center lists a…
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Fast Forward Brazilian ‘Fiddler’ Director Says Orthodox Jews Spit on Christians
An acclaimed Brazilian theater director who recently put on a successful production of “Fiddler on the Roof” condemned some Orthodox Jews whom he said routinely spit on Christians. Claudio Botelho levelled the accusation, which some Jews said was anti-Semitic, on Facebook last week, Alef News, a Brazilian Jewish news portal, reported. “Spitting on someone is…
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