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Fast Forward Russian TV Yanks ‘Flying While Orthodox’ Video
A state-funded Russian television network pulled offline a video that ridiculed the air travel restrictions of some Orthodox Jews. On Tuesday, Russia Today, or RT, removed the 44-second video it produced following critical questions by the Hebrew-language news website nrg.co.il, the site reported. The video featured a slideshow of images and newspaper articles from recent…
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Fast Forward Australia School Headmistress Sued Over Sex Abuse Claim
The former principal of a Jewish day school in Melbourne is being sued by one of her alleged victims. The lawsuit filed last week against Malka Leifer in Victoria’s Supreme Court in Melbourne was launched by the sister of a victim of Leifer who was awarded $1.27 million by the court last year, the Australian…
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Fast Forward Croatian Jews Will Boycott Official Holocaust Ceremony
The Jewish community in Croatia said it will boycott the country’s official Holocaust commemoration events this year to protest alleged government inaction to curb neo-Nazism. The Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of Croatia said it would hold its own commemoration “in line with Jewish tradition” instead of participating in the government one, the Voice…
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Fast Forward Australia Rabbi Says Synagogue Vandals ‘Damn Lucky’ To Escape
A Sydney rabbi whose synagogue was spray-painted with swastikas excoriated the vandals on Facebook. “You were damn lucky that I wasn’t there to catch you,” Rabbi Yossi Friedman wrote Monday in a post that began with the words “I am furious.” His Maroubra Synagogue was vandalized over the weekend with several swastikas. The Nazi symbol…
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Fast Forward Israel Vows Probe of Companies Named in #PanamaPapers Expose
Israel’s Tax Authority will investigate Israeli companies and individuals whose are identified as having offshore accounts in a dump of leaked documents known as the Panama Papers. The tax authority said it will investigate whether the ownership of the companies and the assets held abroad were reported to the authority and if the appropriate taxes…
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Fast Forward Israelis Still Prefer Hillary to Donald Trump — Even After AIPAC
Donald Trump’s speech to America’s largest pro-Israel lobby did not help his standing among Israelis, a new poll shows. The March Peace Index, a monthly poll of Israeli attitudes by the Israel Democracy Institute think tank, showed that 40 percent of Israeli Jews thought Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton would be “better for Israel,” versus…
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Fast Forward Scottish Pro-Israel Student Bounced From Council Meeting for Blasting BDS
A Scottish college student was accused of violating “safe space” rules and told she risked being expelled from a meeting after she spoke out against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel movement. Imogen Wilson, 22, the vice president for academic affairs at Edinburgh University Students’ Association, told Britain’s Telegraph she was accused of making…
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Fast Forward United Nations Backs Down on Pro-Israel Exhibit — a Bit
New York — An exhibition on Israel at the United Nations headquarters will include a panel on Zionism, one of three that the international body had previously deemed “inappropriate.” Calling the reinstated panel a “clear win for Israeli diplomacy and a victory for the truth about Israel,” Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations,…
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