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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Names Human Rights Advocate as New Spokesman
David Keyes, a human rights activist, will become Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s English-language spokesman. The plan to appoint Keyes was first reported this week in the Jerusalem Post, which cited unnamed senior government sources. He will replace Mark Regev, who will become Israeli ambassador to London in March. The Prime Minister’s Office has not…
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Fast Forward Turkish Synagogue Hit by Anti-Israel Graffiti
Unidentified individuals wrote a statement accusing Israel of terrorism and praising Allah on the wall of a Turkish synagogue. The sentence “Terrorist Israel, there is Allah!” was discovered recently on the exterior walls of the Istipol Synagogue in Istanbul’s Balat neighborhood, which earlier this month opened for a prayer service for the first time in…
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Fast Forward Brazil Blames Israel for ‘Mistake’ in Pushing Settler Leader as Envoy
Israel made a “mistake” in naming former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador to Brazil, a Brazilian official said. “I think it was a misstep by the Israeli government,” Marco Aurelio Garcia, diplomatic adviser to the Brazilian president, told Brazilian public television on Friday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said publicly…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Ohio Professor Probed Over ‘Ties to ISIS’
A professor at Kent State University with a history of anti-Israel activity is under FBI investigation for ties to the Islamic State. The FBI confirmed that Professor Julio Pino is being investigated, the Akron Beacon Journal reported Tuesday night. The Cuban-born Pino, a convert to Islam who is also known as Assad Jibril Pino, has…
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish Extremists Arrested for Vandalizing Jerusalem Monastery
Israel has arrested two Jewish youths for anti-Christian graffiti scrawled on a Jerusalem monastery, police said on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an investigation into the latest in a wave of hate crimes. The 16- and 15-year-old males were suspected of involvement in Hebrew curses like “Christians go to hell” that were written…
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Fast Forward World’s Only Transgender Billionaire Gives $2M for University Chair
An American Jewish billionaire philanthropist in Chicago has donated $2 million to establish what is believed to be the first chair of transgender studies at a university. Jennifer Pritzker, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who is believed to be the only transgender billionaire in the world, made the gift through her Tawani Foundation to…
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Fast Forward Despite Paris Terror, Anti-Semitic Attacks Dip by 5% in France
Anti-Semitic incidents in France decreased by five percent in 2015 over the previous year, while anti-Muslim attacks tripled in volume, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. In an interview published Tuesday by the French daily La Croix, Cazeneuve said his ministry recorded 806 anti-Semitic incidents last year compared to 851 reported in 2014, and 400…
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Fast Forward Umbrella Groups for 375 Jewish Day Schools Merge
Five North American Jewish day school organizations and networks representing more than 375 schools from across the denominational spectrum are merging. The Jewish Community Day School Network, or RAVSAK, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, or PEJE, Yeshiva University School Partnership, the Schechter Day School Network and Day Schools of Reform Judaism, or PARDES,…
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