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Fast Forward British Lawmaker Sorry for Calling on Israelis To Move to U.S.
A British Labour Party lawmaker has apologized for “for any offense” caused by a Facebook post which called for the relocation of Israelis to the United States. Naz Shah, a lawmaker from Bradford West, located in Yorkshire in northern England, shared a post of a graphic in which a small silhouette of the map of…
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Fast Forward Martin Gray, ‘For Those I Loved’ Author, Dies at 93
Martin Gray, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose memoir about his experiences during World War II inspired a successful TV miniseries, has died at 93. Gray was found in the swimming pool of his second home in Ciney, Belgium, but officials said no foul play was suspected, the BBC reported. In 1971, the Warsaw native born…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Hasidic Rabbi Likely Faces Passover in South African Jail
A fugitive Hasidic rabbi charged with sex abuse is spending Passover in a South African prison while authorities determine whether or not to extradite him to Israel. Rabbi Eliezer Berland, 78, was arrested in early April in Johannesburg, four years after first fleeing sex abuse charges in Israel. A founder of the Shuvu Bonim religious…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Marc Schneier Set To Quit Pulpit Amid More Divorce Drama
Rabbi Marc Schneier, one of New York’s higher-profile spiritual leaders, is resigning from The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach after 26 years. In a letter emailed to congregants earlier this month, Schneier, 57, went public with his decision to step down this summer from the Orthodox synagogue he founded. In the letter, the rabbi said…
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Fast Forward Mexico’s President Tells Immigrants To Resist Trump by Uniting — Like the Jews
President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico called on Mexicans in the United States to follow the Jewish community’s example and unite to defend their interests in an urgent effort to defeat Donald Trump. The call was announced by the newly appointed Mexican ambassador to the United States, Carlos Manuel Sada, during an interview last week…
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Fast Forward Britain’s Labour Party Suspends Columnist Over Anti-Semitism
As part of its crackdown on anti-Semitism, Britain’s Labour Party suspended the party membership of a columnist from Ireland who apparently said Israel was using the Holocaust to receive money. John McAuliffe, an international member of the British party, columnist at Digital Journal and the Cambridge Globalist, was suspended this week after allegedly posting on…
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Fast Forward 7 Extremist Jews Indicted for Terror Plot Against Palestinians
Seven members of an alleged extremist Jewish terror cell were indicted in an Israeli court. The cell, including an Israeli soldier and two minors, are accused of setting Palestinian vehicles on fire, throwing firebombs at Palestinian homes and assaulting Palestinians. They also are charged with membership in an illegal organization and causing grave bodily harm….
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Fast Forward Polish Reporter Defends Expose About Fake Rabbi
A local journalist who revealed that a man who posed as a rabbi in north-central Poland for several years is not actually a rabbi has been accused of anti-Semitism in the Poznan Jewish community. Meanwhile, the Poznan Jewish community’s lack of knowledge about the rabbi that served it has been criticized by the leaders of…
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