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Fast Forward Brazilian Official Compares Villification of Ex-President to Nazi Treatment of Jews
An influential Brazilian ex-governor and government minister compared the media treatment of ex-President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva to that of the Nazis against Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust. “The media makes Lula the Jew of the decade, like the Nazis made Jews and communists the target of their hatred against social democracy,”…
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Fast Forward Most French Muslims Wouldn’t Object to Daughter Dating Jew
A majority of French Muslims said they would react positively if their daughter married a Jew, a survey found. The results were part of a document comprising three reports published Sunday by the polling firm Ipsos based on opinion polls and interviews conducted over 2014 and 2015 with several partner organizations, including the Foundation of…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Plans To Publish Names of 1,000 Nazi Collaborators
Following the publication in Lithuania of a groundbreaking book on local complicity during the Holocaust, a state museum on genocide said it would publish a list of 1,000 suspected perpetrators. Terese Birute Burauskaite, who heads the Vilnius-based Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, said her institution would “this year try to publish a book”…
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Fast Forward Settlers Forged 14 of 15 Land Deals WIth Palestinians
Nearly all of the West Bank real estate acquisitions made by a company run by a pro-settlement activist were forged. The details of the transactions by the Al-Watan company, owned by the Amana housing company and run by director-general Zeev Hever, were broadcast Monday on Israel’s Channel 1. A full report was to be broadcast…
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Fast Forward 50 Headstones Toppled by Vandals at Indiana Jewish Cemetery
More than 50 headstones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery in Indiana. Several of the headstones were damaged in the vandalism discovered Monday afternoon at the Fort Wayne Jewish Cemetery by volunteer cemetery workers. There was no accompanying graffiti. Many of the granite stones were so large that it would have taken at least three…
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Fast Forward FBI Launches Robert Levinson Farsi Facebook Page
The FBI reportedly launched a Persian-language Facebook page in order to collect tips from Iranians on the disappearance of Robert Levinson. The page went live in recent weeks, the Associated Press reported on Monday. Pages also are planned in Arabic and Urdu, according to the AP. Levinson, 68, of Coral Springs, Florida, a private detective…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Defeats Donald Trump in Iowa — Marco Rubio Strong Third
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas won the Iowa Republican caucus, handing Donald Trump a humiliating defeat. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., performed unexpectedly well, coming in third. Rubio had for a time languished low in the polls along with other establishment candidates. Trump and Cruz are competing for the insurgent, anti-establishment vote. On the Democratic side, Bernie…
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Fast Forward Russian Non-Jews Can Begin Conversion Before Immigrating to Israel
Russian non-Jews who are preparing to immigrate to Israel have been given the option of beginning their conversion to Judaism in Moscow. This option came with the launch last week in Russia of the Maslul project, which is a joint initiative of several organizations for facilitating the conversion process for prospective immigrants even before they…
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