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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Tells Queen Elizabeth on Birthday: ‘Life Begins at 90’
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres sent Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II a happy birthday video message telling her that “life begins at 90.” The Queen’s 90th birthday takes place on Thursday, although the official celebrations in the United Kingdom will be held in June. In September, Elizabeth II became the country’s longest reigning monarch, after ascending…
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Fast Forward Argentina Hosts First Anti-Semitism Forum in Latin America
The first Latin American meeting of the Global Forum for Combatting Antisemitism will have for the first time a non-Jewish group as co-organizer. The meeting, being held for the first time in Latin America and for the first time with a non-Jewish partner, will gather more than 100 international experts in Buenos Aires July 17…
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Fast Forward Florida Lt. Governor Has Bar Mitzvah at Western Wall
Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera had a bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, after recently identifying publicly as Jewish. Lopez-Cantera, 42, was in Israel last week with the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association and told the Florida Sun-Sentinel that the “It definitely wasn’t planned” and that the opportunity “presented itself” for him to participate…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Barred From Holding Passover Priestly Blessing Rite at Kotel
Israel’s attorney general banned Women of the Wall from holding a priestly blessing ceremony at the Western Wall. The group, which advocates for women’s right to perform rituals that the Western Wall’s Orthodox authorities maintain are reserved for men, had planned to hold a ceremony featuring the traditional prayer on Sunday, April 24. On Thursday,…
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Fast Forward New Orleans Rabbi’s Home Destroyed When Passover Cleaning Oven Ignites Blaze
A fire caused by an oven during its self-cleaning cycle in preparation for Passover destroyed the home of a New Orleans rabbi. The fire swept through the home of Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg of the Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel on Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which caused “substantial” damage, Jefferson Parish East…
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Fast Forward Harvard Law Student Sorry for Asking Tzipi Livni ‘Smelly’ Question
The head of a student group at Harvard Law School has apologized for asking Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni, “How is it that you are so smelly?” The unidentified student posed the question during an April 14 panel event on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving Livni and American diplomat Dennis Ross. The leaders of the school’s Jewish…
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Fast Forward Injured Palestinian Dies After Jerusalem Bus Blast — Hamas Says He Was Bomber
JERUSALEM — Hamas said that a man who succumbed to wounds suffered in Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem was the terrorist who placed a bomb in the vehicle. On Wednesday, the terrorist group claimed in a statement that the bomber was a 19-year-old Palestinian from the al-Ayda refugee camp outside of Bethlehem, reported. His name…
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Fast Forward Steven Sotloff’s Family Sues Syria Over Execution
The family of Steven Sotloff, a Jewish journalist who was beheaded by Islamic State terrorists, has sued Syria in U.S. court. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., claims the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad provided support to the terrorists who carried out the assassination of a kneeling Sotloff two years…
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