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Fast Forward Swiss Jews Dismiss Hasidic oncerns About Building by Cemetery
Swiss Jews dismissed concerns raised by Satmar rabbis in New York about construction work performed on a Zurich building that borders a Jewish cemetery. The approval of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities of construction at the Museum for Modern Art followed protests by the Satmar-affiliated United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn that…
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Fast Forward African Immigrant Left To Die for 18 Minutes After Being Mistaken for Terrorist
TEL AVIV — New closed-circuit television footage shows the deadly beating of an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a terrorist after an attack in Beersheba laying untreated on the floor for 18 minutes. The footage released Monday by Haaretz shows Haftom Zarhum, 29, lying on the floor of the Beersheba central bus station before…
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Fast Forward Pregnant Daughter of Peace Activist Wounded in West Bank
A pregnant Israeli woman was stabbed in Tekoa, a West Bank settlement in Gush Etzion. According to Magen David Adom (MDA), Michal Froman, an approximately 30-year-old mother-to-be, was stabbed at a clothing warehouse in the settlement, suffering moderate wounds to her upper body. MDA was called to the scene and evacuated Froman for treatment at…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Calls For Normalizing Ties With Iran in Contentious Debate
Bernie Sanders, the Jewish senator vying for the Democratic presidential nod, called for normalizing relations with Iran. “I think what we’ve got to do is move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran,” Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., said Sunday evening during a debate with his rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Martin O’Malley in…
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Fast Forward Argentina President Meets With Slain AMIA Prosecutor’s Daughters
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentinian President Mauricio Macri met with the daughters of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a year after the lawman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Nisman’s daughters, Iara and Kala, went to Macri’s personal weekend house, called Los Abrojos. Sunday’s meeting with Macri is…
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg Donates $31M of Facebook Stock to Women’s Charities
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has donated 290,000 shares of company stock, worth about $31 million, to several different charities. The majority of the money will go to women’s empowerment groups and Lean In, Sandberg’s nonprofit supporting women in the workplace, according to CNBC, citing an unnamed source familiar with Sandberg’s plans. The donations…
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Fast Forward Obama Says Iran is Pledged to Help Find Robert Levinson
WASHINGTON — Iran will “deepen its coordination” with the United States to locate a Jewish-American man missing since 2007, President Barack Obama said. “Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years,” Obama said, speaking Sunday from the White House. Levinson, 68,…
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Fast Forward Kuwait Air to End New York Service Over Refusal to Carry Israelis
WASHINGTON — Kuwait Air is ending its New York to London service over the carrier’s refusal to carry Israeli passengers. “The U.S. Department of Transportation will not tolerate unlawful discrimination, and has mandated that the airline immediately cease that practice and allow Israeli passengers to travel between the U.S. and London,” Anthony Foxx, the transportation…
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