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Fast Forward Peter Beinart Leads Open Hillel Push by 55 Academics
The Open Hillel student group has established a council of 55 academics who support its mission to open up dialogue about Israel at campus Hillels. Open Hillel announced the launch of its Academic Council on Thursday, which includes high-profile Jewish academics like Peter Beinart, Judith Butler and Shaul Magid. The academics were said to have…
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Fast Forward Israeli Aid Agency Helping British Flood Victims
An Israeli humanitarian aid charity has sent a disaster relief team to help flood victims in the north of England. Four IsraAID volunteers landed in London on Monday and traveled to Leeds to begin work helping repair homes and distributing blankets and food in the worst hit areas, The Jewish Chronicle of London reported Tuesday….
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Fast Forward French Auctioneers Pull Portrait Equating Palestinian With Mandela
A French auction house cancelled the sale of a painting that equates a Palestinian militant serving multiple life sentences for murder with Nelson Mandela. The portrait of Marwan Barghouti, a senior PLO official whom an Israeli court in 2002 found guilty of terrorism and murder by planning bomb attacks on civilians, was was pulled last…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Offered the U.S. $1B To Fund Iron Dome Batteries
WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adelson reportedly offered the United States $1 billion to assist in the support of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile program. The Las Vegas-based casino magnate contacted the White House in 2013 through his home state senator, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., then the majority leader, Politico reported Thursday. “Congress had just passed a funding…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Explode in France — Report
Anti-Semitic incidents doubled in France in 2014 over the previous year even as other hate crimes decreased, according to a new report. “Breaking the Cycle of Violence,” which was by the Human Rights First nonprofit on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terrorist attacks in Paris, draws on “public information and interviews…
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Fast Forward Settlement Youths Who Attacked Israeli Cops Going To Prison
JERUSALEM — Six youths from a West Bank settlement were sentenced to eight months in prison for attacking Israeli security forces. The Yitzhar residents, four of whom are minors, were sentenced Thursday in Lod District Court after accepting a plea bargain on charges of rock throwing, vandalism and disrupting police work, The Jerusalem Post reported….
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Fast Forward Israel Aiding Paraguayans Displaced By Worst Flooding in 50 Years
Israel will donate food and assistance kits to help Paraguayans displaced by massive flooding in the region, the worst in half a century. “The State of Israel is sympathetic to our sister nation of Paraguay in this difficult moment when thousands of citizens have been forced to leave their homes behind,” the Israeli Embassy in…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian-Jewish Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky sues Russia
AMSTERDAM — Ukrainian-Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky sued Russia in an international court over his inability to operate an airport in Crimea. The Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Hague-based intergovernmental organization with 117 member states, announced Wednesday that it would review the lawsuit, Reuters reported. Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian nationalist who funded military actions in the Ukraine-Russia…
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