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Fast Forward Reform Joins Push Against Israel NGO-Funding Bill
The Reform movement opposes a proposed Israeli law that would require NGOs to prominently state whether they get most of their funding from other governments. The statement Tuesday by the Union for Reform Judaism brings to three the major centrist U.S. Jewish groups opposing the bill approved last week by Israel’s Cabinet and initiated by…
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Fast Forward Siri Says ‘Shalom’ as Apple’s Virtual Assistant Learns Hebrew
Apple’s voice-activated assistant technology, which is offered in 18 languages, will be offered in Hebrew. Siri, which stands for Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface, will be able to speak Hebrew next month in the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, Ynet reported Tuesday. The beta version of the Hebrew Siri will not allow for…
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Fast Forward Democrats Who Backed Iran Deal Meet With Bibi
A delegation of eight Democratic U.S. senators who backed the Iran nuclear deal met with Israeli leaders and discussed oversight of the deal. The trip last week included Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York; Chris Coons of Delaware; Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota; Tim Kaine of Virginia; Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Mazie Hirono of Hawaii;…
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Fast Forward Father of Billionaire Koch Brothers Built Refinery for Hitler
The father of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany, a new book reports. Adolf Hitler personally approved the refinery, according to “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer, which looks at some rich donors to what the book terms in its subtitle the “radical right” of today while…
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Fast Forward Marseille Jews Split on Wearing Kippahs After Spate of Attacks
Representatives of the Jewish community of Marseille issued conflicting statements on whether Jews should hide their kippah in the southern French city following a spate of anti-Semitic stabbings. Tzvi Amar, president of the local office of the Consistoire, the French Jewish community’s organization responsible for religious services, was quoted Tuesday by Le Figaro as saying…
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Fast Forward MoveOn.Org Gives Bernie Sanders Key Endorsement
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The liberal activist movement MoveOn.org endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, handing the Vermont senator important grassroots support in the early primary states. Nearly 79 percent of 340,665 members casting votes selected Sanders, an Independent, over the other candidates for the Democratic nod, Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former secretary of state who is…
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Fast Forward Rubio Pledges Israel Trip Would Be First Presidential Visit Abroad
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said his first trip abroad if elected would be to Israel. At a town hall meeting in Florida on Monday, Rubio was asked what his first foreign trip as president would be, Jewish Insider reported. “Israel,” the Florida senator said to loud applause. Fellow Republican candidate Jeb Bush refused to…
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Fast Forward 4 Men Indicted in Beating of Eritrean Mistaken for Terrorist
(JTA) — An Israeli soldier and a prison guard officer were among four men indicted in the beating of an Eritrean man they mistook for a terrorist. The men were indicted Tuesday in the case of Haftom Zarhum, 29, a migrant who was also shot by police and died hours later at Soroka Hospital in…
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