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The Schmooze Eagles of Death Metal to Perform in Israel in September
Eagles of Death Metal, the California band whose Paris concert was attacked by terrorists in November, will perform in Israel. The band, which last performed in Israel in July, is slated to play Tel Aviv’s Hangar 11 as part of a world tour on Sept. 5, according to news reports. Eagles of Death Metal came…
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Fast Forward Israel Warned Belgium That Brussels Airport Security Was Flawed
Israel reportedly warned Belgian officials several weeks ago about inadequate security at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport. The warning came from Israeli officials charged with evaluating security standards at airports that operate flights to Tel Aviv, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Wednesday. The Israelis found “significant shortcomings” at the airport, which was the scene of two deadly bomb…
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Fast Forward BDS Prof Likens Sodastream’s Palestinian Workers to Nazi Slave Labor
A New Zealand professor riled the local Jewish community by comparing Israel’s SodaStream to a German company that used Jewish slave labor during World War II. In a letter to New Zealand’s Waikato Times on Nov. 28, University of Auckland sociology professor Scott Poynting equated the Israeli firm, which employed Palestinians, with IG Farben, which…
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Fast Forward Joseph C. Mandel, Businessman and Philanthropist, Dies at 102
Joseph C. Mandel, a philanthropist who donated tens of millions of dollars to Jewish schools, has died at 102. The businessman passed away at his winter Palm Beach, Florida, home Tuesday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. Along with his two brothers, Mandel co-founded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation in 1953. The brothers have…
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Fast Forward Playwright Tony Kushner’s Pro-BDS Ties Spark Controversy
TORONTO — The local Jewish federation has dissociated itself from an event taking place in May at one its beneficiary agencies, the Koffler Centre of the Arts, featuring controversial American playwright Tony Kushner. In a March 21 statement, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto noted, after “thoughtful consideration,” that Kushner is a member of the…
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Fast Forward ‘Kill the Jews’ Painted on Ukrainian Synagogue
Vandals wrote “kill the Jews” on a synagogue in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy. In a separate incident, unidentified persons torched a wreath that an Israeli cabinet minister had placed for Holocaust victims in Kiev. The incident involving a synagogue was discovered on Wednesday in Cherkasy , Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian…
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Fast Forward Israeli Official to Reeling Belgians: Less Chocolate, More Terror Fighting
JERUSALEM — An Israeli government minister blamed Belgian officials for “eating chocolate” instead of paying attention to security against terror. “If in Belgium they continue eating chocolate and enjoying life, and continue to appear as great democrats and liberals, and do not decide that some Muslims in their country are organizing terror, they won’t be…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbi Accuses New Jersey Town of Bias in Lawsuit
The head of Chabad in a town adjacent to the Orthodox Jewish stronghold of Lakewood, New Jersey, has sued the town and its planning board alleging discrimination. Rabbi Moshe Gourarie and the Chabad Jewish Center of Toms River Inc. filed a federal civil rights law suit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday against the township…
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