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Fast Forward Washington D.C. Republicans Extend Shabbat Voting Hours for Observant Jews
The Republican Party in Washington, D.C., is extending its primary hours to allow observant Jews to vote. Patrick Mara, the director of the District of Columbia Republican Party, told the Washington Post in a report posted on the newspaper’s website Monday that the party would extend voting this Saturday to 9 p.m., five hours later…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Will ‘Look Into’ Questions About ‘Nazi’ Salute
Donald Trump said he would “look into” his recent practice of asking followers to raise their hands in a pledge after it was likened to the Nazi salute. Trump said Tuesday on NBC that the comparisons to Nazi salutes were a “big, big stretch,” adding it was something he does for fun. “I’ll certainly look…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Paris Boy Beaten on Way to Synagogue
A French anti-Semitism watchdog condemned an attack on a Jewish boy, 13. The boy , who was wearing a kippah, was walking to synagogue on Saturday afternoon in Paris’ 12th district, when he was attacked by three youths described as “of African origin,” the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, a Jewish nonprofit…
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Fast Forward Israelis Prefer Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders by 2-1 Margin
Of the two Democratic candidates in the U.S. presidential race, Israelis prefer the non-Jewish one. The Israel Democracy Institute’s Peace Index survey released Sunday found that 40.5 percent of Jewish-Israelis see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as “preferable from Israel’s standpoint,” while only 16.5 percent prefer Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish. The…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Wins Praise on Guns — From NRA
The National Rifle Association praised presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for saying a law he supported kept lawsuits from driving gun manufacturers out of the United States. “Sen. Sanders was spot-on in his comments about gun manufacturer liability,” the gun lobby said Monday in a tweet about the Democratic debate the previous evening between Sanders, an…
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Fast Forward Oberlin Trustees Plan Probe of Professor’s Anti-Semitic Rants
Oberlin College’s board of trustees is calling for the school administration to launch an investigation into what it called a faculty member’s “anti-Semitic and abhorrent” posts on social media. In a statement issued Saturday on behalf of the board, its chair, Clyde McGregor, said the trustees at their quarterly meeting the previous day had discussed…
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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Says He Won’t Run — Avoids Enabling Cruz or Trump
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he will not run for president in the 2016 race. The billionaire media magnate, who is Jewish and had been exploring the possibility of running as an independent, announced in an opinion column published Monday afternoon that he will stay out of the race because he does not…
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Fast Forward 11 Jewish Projects Make Slingshot Innovation Guide
Subsidized tours of the West Bank for young Jews, synagogue gardens to grow food for the needy, and linking 20- and 30-something Jews to Shabbat experiences are among the 11 initiatives recognized for the first time in the annual Slingshot guide to innovative projects. The 2016 guide published Monday features 50 North American Jewish projects…
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