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Fast Forward Top Reform Groups Renew Call for Football’s Redskins to Change Name
Two top Reform movement groups reiterated their call on the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change the team’s name and logo. “’Redskin’ is a racial slur that references the deplorable treatment of American Indians that has been a significant part of this country’s history,” Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who heads Reform’s Religious Action Center, said in a…
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Fast Forward ‘Prodfather’ Rabbi, Who Led Violent Divorce Ring, Sentenced to 10 Years
A New Jersey rabbi who ran a ring that violently attempted to coerce Jewish men to grant their wives religious divorces has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Rabbi Mendel Epstein, 70, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, NJ.com reported. Epstein was one of nine people, two of them rabbis,…
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Fast Forward Bibi Blames Palestinians for Lack of Peace Progress in Rebuke to John Kerry
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Palestinians for the lack of progress toward peace in an apparent response to statements by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “The time has come for the international community to understand that the reason there is no negotiation and no progress toward peace is not Israel’s fault but…
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Fast Forward Trump Protester Shouts Nazi Salute at Campaign Rally
A protester at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas shouted a Nazi-era salute at the Republican presidential candidate. A protester identified by NBC News as a large middle-aged man shouted “Sieg Heil” at the rally Monday evening as another protester was dragged away by security services, NBC reported. About 10 members of a…
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Fast Forward 3 Israeli Soldiers Punished for Photobombing Palestinian Newscast
Three Israeli soldiers who interrupted a Palestinian news reporter during a broadcast from the West Bank were punished by the military. The soldiers were ordered confined to their military base for 14 days was viewed thousands of times on social media. Standing first behind and then alongside the female reporter, the soldiers are seen shaking…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Messages Left in Mailboxes in Gated Florida Enclave
Anti-Semitic messages were left in the mailboxes of Jewish families in a gated community in South Florida. The messages left in at least two of the mailboxes in Cooper City in Broward County over the weekend read “X-mas is not for the Jews.” The words “not” and “Jews” were underlined, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Monday….
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Fast Forward 2 Arrested in Connection With Attack on Paris Kosher Market
An “acknowledged mercenary” and his partner have been arrested in connection with the deadly attack in January on a kosher supermarket in Paris that left four people dead. The man and woman arrested Tuesday are accused of helping to provide guns to Amedy Coulibaly in his siege of the Hyper Cacher on a busy Friday…
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Fast Forward Hamas Claims Responsibility for Car-Ramming Terror Attack
Hamas claimed responsibility for a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem that injured 14, saying the Palestinian driver was a member. Among those injured in Monday’s attack at the western entrance to the city was an 18-month-old boy, who reportedly had a leg amputated that night. Abed el-Muhsen Hassuna, 21, formerly of eastern Jerusalem, was living in…
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