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Fast Forward Louis Brandeis Inspired My Work for Women’s Rights — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BOSTON – One hundred years to the day of the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid tribute to the first Jewish justice at a program at the university that bears his name. At Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Ginsburg, who is Jewish, told a…
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Fast Forward An Israeli ‘Spy Vulture’ Is Captured, Then Released, by Lebanese
Lebanese citizens captured a vulture they said was carrying Israeli spy equipment. The residents of the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail caught the bird on Tuesday. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority said the griffon vulture was wearing a tracking device, the Jerusalem Post reported. Lebanese media reported the vulture was released after it…
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Fast Forward Fears Mount for Jews in Germany With Flood of Muslim Refugees
MUNICH – Amid fears that Muslim refugees’ arrival to Germany may cause problems for local Jews, the American Jewish Committee in Berlin called for a national summit on ways to combat anti-democratic values among the newcomers. “It is five minutes before midnight, but not yet too late,” said AJC Berlin director Deidre Berger in statement…
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Fast Forward Indiana Lawmakers Pass Bill To Ban Dealings With Pro-BDS Entities
The Indiana House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill banning state dealings with entities that boycott Israel. The bill sent to the state’s Senate on Jan. 26 defines “the promotion of activities to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel” as meeting the standard of “extraordinary circumstances” necessary under state law to mandate divestment from a…
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Fast Forward Hamas Boasts its ‘Heroes’ Are Digging New Tunnels To Attack Israel
Palestinian “heroes” are digging tunnels to be used in future attacks on Israel, Hamas’ senior political leader said. At a funeral in Gaza City Friday for seven Hamas operatives killed when rain and flooding caused a tunnel they were working on to collapse, Ismail Haniyeh said preparations are underway for the next confrontation with Israel,…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing Group Sorry for Calling Israeli Artists ‘Traitors’
A right-wing Israeli group apologized for a controversial campaign calling leftist artists “foreign agents” and “traitors.” Matan Peleg, the director of the group Im Tirtzu, wrote on Facebook Friday that his organization did not “sufficiently consider” the new campaign. “Dear friends, we erred,” the group wrote on its official Facebook page. “We posted a mistaken…
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Fast Forward Dutch Thrift Shop Returns Holocaust Victims’ 1942 Wedding Book
Using social media, a thrift store near the Dutch capital succeeded in returning the 1942 wedding book of a Jewish couple who perished in Auschwitz to the couple’s family. The Kringloper Almere shop on Monday appealed to Facebook users to help locate the owners of a notebook that celebrated the union on May 31, 1942,…
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Fast Forward Marco Rubio Reiterates Pledge To Revoke Iran Nuke Deal if Elected
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reiterated his pledge to revoke the nuclear deal struck last year with Iran and defended his proposal to shut down mosques where radical speech is reported. “When I am president of the United States, if there is some place in this country where radical jihadists are planning to attack the United…
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