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Fast Forward Donald Trump Will Speak at AIPAC Convention
Donald Trump will speak at AIPAC’s annual conference. The real estate magnate and front-runner among Republican aspirants to the presidency on Friday became the second candidate to confirm his attendance at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, taking place March 20-22 in Washington, D.C. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, confirmed…
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Fast Forward Guiness Book Confirms 112-Year-Old Israeli Is World’s Oldest Man
It’s official: Yisrael Kristal, a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor and Israeli citizen, is the world’s oldest living man. Guinness World Records confirmed Yisrael Kristal’s status on its website Friday. In January, JTA and other media reported that Kristal, who survived Auschwitz and the Lodz Ghetto, was likely the world’s oldest man, but that it would not…
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Fast Forward Marco Rubio Sees ‘Little’ Chance for Israel 2-State Solution
Speaking at a Florida synagogue, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio promised that if he were elected president, “Israel will not have a better friend than me.” “We are going to take a side and we are going to be on Israel’s,” the Florida senator said, according to USA Today. “I think Israel is willing to…
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Fast Forward Canadian Jews Want 92-Year-Old Nazi ‘Killer’ Deported for Trial
Jewish groups are calling on Canada to strip Canadian citizenship from a 92-year-old man who was once a member of a Nazi death squad. In a letter to Citizenship Minister John McCallum, the groups say it’s time to conclude to what has been a 20-year battle to deport Helmut Oberlander. “As has been clearly established,…
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Fast Forward Dutch Judge Won’t Be Ousted Over ‘Jewish’ Bias Claim
A Dutch court threw out a lawyer’s motion to have a judge recused because of her and a rival attorney’s Jewish origins. A review panel of the Court of Amsterdam on Tuesday rejected Jose Coenraad’s motion to have Judge A.R. Sturhoofd recused from a family court case taking place in The Hague in which Coenraad…
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Fast Forward McGraw-Hill Yanks ‘Anti-Israel’ Political Science Textbook
McGraw-Hill Education, a major U.S. textbook publisher, announced the recall and planned destruction of a political science book containing maps that are deemed inaccurate and anti-Israel. The book, “Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World,” was taken off McGraw-Hill Education’s website and slated for recall and destruction in recent weeks following complaints about the maps, the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Pounded by Rivals Over ‘Neutral’ on Israel Vow at Debate
Donald Trump continued to say he would adopt a position of neutrality in brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace, a posture that brought tough criticism from his three rivals for the Republican presidential nod. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was the first to challenge the real estate magnate on his Israel posture in the debate broadcast by CNN on…
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Fast Forward Ahava Opens Plant in Israel Proper — Will It Quit West Bank?
Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics firm whose products are made in the West Bank, confirmed its plan to open a production line on the Israeli side of the 1967 Green Line. “In light of expanding production needs due the success in marketing Ahava products around the world and expected changes in cosmetic product manufacturing standards in…
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