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Fast Forward Firebrand Arab Lawmaker Compares Israeli Actions to Kristallnacht
Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi equated Israel’s actions against the Palestinians to the violence against Jews that led to the Holocaust during a speech commemorating Kristallnacht in Amsterdam. “Kristallnacht didn’t suddenly fall from the sky, come out of nowhere, it was the result of a development over time. We can see a similar development happening in…
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Fast Forward Orphaned Son of Mumbai Terror Victims Leads Chabad Prayers
Moshe Holtzberg, the orphaned son of the Chabad House directors in Mumbai, India, killed by terrorists in 2008, was scheduled to lead thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the recitation of psalms. Moshe, who is nearly 9 and lives with his grandparents in Afula, Israel, was scheduled to lead the recitation on Sunday night in New…
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Fast Forward Israeli Intelligence Helped Pinpoint ISIS Role in Sinai Plane Crash
Intelligence intercepts being used to assess what happened to a Russian airplane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula came from Israel. Israeli officials would not comment on the claims by an unnamed U.S. official and a diplomatic source, CNN reported Sunday. The communications between ISIS affiliates in Sinai were captured by Israeli intelligence focused there…
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Fast Forward Jewish Extremist Arrested in Attack on Rabbi in West Bank
Israel Police have arrested a Jewish man accused of assaulting a leader of the Rabbis for Human Rights organization. Police on Sunday arrested the man who last month threatened Rabbi Arik Ascherman with a knife while he was helping Palestinians harvest olives near the settlement of Itamar, not far from the West Bank city of…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s First Sephardic President, Buried in Jerusalem
Israel’s fifth president, Yitzhak Navon, was buried in a state funeral on Mount Herzl. Navon , Israel’s first Separdi president, died Friday at the age of 94. His body lay in state on Sunday morning before his funeral at noon, attended by his family, current Israeli leaders and former Israeli leaders. In his eulogy at…
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Fast Forward Michele Bachmann Calls for Stepped-Up Push To Convert Jews
Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called for an intensified effort to convert Jews to Christianity. Bachmann, a former congresswoman from Minnesota who ran for the Republican presidential nod in 2012, was in Israel last week on a tour organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. Toward the end of the week, she…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Wins Reform Cheers for Israel Support — Slams ‘Derogatory’ Bibi Aide
Thousands of Reform Jews cheered Vice President Joe Biden’s criticism of Israeli settlements, but were even more boisterous in applauding his pledge to fight the delegitimization of Israel and to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. In a keynote address to 5,000 people at the 2015 Biennial of the Union for Reform Judaism, Biden…
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Fast Forward Amos Oz Shuns Israel Government Events To Protest Right-Wing Policies
Israeli writer Amos Oz announced that, to protest what he sees as extremist government policies, he will no longer participate in Israeli embassy-sponsored events. Oz, who is arguably Israel’s most famous and most widely translate author, told the Jerusalem Post Thursday that “Following the radicalization in the policy of the present government in various areas,…
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