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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Slams Donald Trump in Speech at Mosque
Bernie Sanders referenced the Holocaust and condemned Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “anti-Muslim rhetoric and hatred” in a visit to a Washington mosque. Sanders, the Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont senator, participated in a roundtable discussion with Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders at the Masjid Muhammmed mosque on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported. Sanders specifically criticized…
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Fast Forward Panel Wants Tighter Oversight of Orthodox New York School Board
A New York State panel recommended tighter control over an Orthodox-majority public school board in Rockland County whose budget cuts have provoked ire among public-school parents. The state-appointed monitors of the East Ramapo Central School District recommended in a report released Monday that the state authorize a monitor of the school board empowered veto board…
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Fast Forward Israel College Heads Blast Anthropologists for BDS Push
The heads of Israel’s major universities criticized an American academic group for moving to consider a boycott of Israel at its upcoming convention. The Association of University Heads, Israel, sent a letter Monday to Alisse Waterston, the president of the American Anthropological Association, expressing“great regret and disappointment” over the group’s decision, saying it “presents a…
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Fast Forward Undercover Ultra-Orthodox Agent Helps Nab 45 on Drug Charges
At least 45 people suspected of drug trafficking were arrested in two haredi Orthodox areas thanks to the work of an under cover haredi agent. The arrests, in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood and the city of Beit Shemesh, were announced by the Israel Police on its website on Tuesday, hours after the arrests. Additional arrests…
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The Schmooze Adam Sandler Drops F-Bombs On Boycott Israel Movement
Adam Sandler criticized Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters and movement to boycott Israel in an appearance on the Howard Stern Show. “I’m disgusted they single out Israel,” Sandler said Tuesday on Stern’s Sirius satellite radio show. “That [they say], ‘We can’t play Israel.’ All these f—king nice Israeli people are getting a ‘f—k you’…
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Fast Forward Republicans Barely Mention Israel at GOP Debate
Republican candidates, focusing on the Islamic State challenge, barely mentioned Israeli concerns in their national security debate. The Tuesday night debate on CNN dealt mainly with the challenge posed by the Islamic State, particularly in the wake of the deadly attack this month in San Bernardino, Calif. Candidates differed sharply on the degree to which…
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Fast Forward Obama Likens Syrian Refugees to Jews Fleeing Nazis
Echoing a slate of Jewish groups, President Barack Obama likened Syrian refugees to Jewish refugees in the 1930s. “Scripture tells us, ‘For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers, we are strangers before you,’” Obama said Tuesday at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives. “In the Mexican immigrant today,…
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Fast Forward Muslim Suspected in Paris Attacks Linked to Accused Brussels Jewish Museum Killer
A French Muslim man accused of helping stage the recent attacks in Paris associated in prison with the alleged killer of four at Brussels’ Jewish museum. Mohammed Amri, who French police believe acted as a chauffeur for some of the terrorists who killed 130 people in Paris last month, became friends with Mehdi Nemmouche in…
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