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Fast Forward El Al Insists Ultra-Orthodox Men Delayed Flight By Just Minutes With Seat-Switching Drama
JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al said its flight on which haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats next to women was delayed only minutes by the required switches, not over an hour as was reported. A passenger on the June 21 flight said in a Facebook post recounting the incident that the flight…
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Fast Forward Director Ridley Scott To Adapt Israeli Professor’s Book ‘Sapiens’ To Screen
(JTA) — “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” the bestselling book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, will be adapted to a movie. The film will be adapted from the book by American director Ridley Scott and British documentarian Asif Kapadia, the Hollywood Reporter announced Wednesday. The non-fiction book charts the course of the development…
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Fast Forward Norwegian Hospitals Refuse To Circumcise Boys Younger Than 3 Years Old
(JTA) — At least two hospitals in Norway are refusing to help parents who wish to have their underage male children circumcised in violation of Norwegian law, a Norwegian paper revealed. Stavanger University Hospital in the country’s west and Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen are not cooperating on the nonmedical circumcision of boys younger than…
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Fast Forward Greek Holocaust Memorial Vandalized Twice In Two Weeks
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The monument, located on the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, was smeared in blue paint and a cross was painted on it. Tuesday’s attack is the second time that the monument has been vandalized in two weeks. The monument, a series of gravestones…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem’s Top Historian Accepts Joint Israel-Poland Holocaust Declaration
(JTA) — Yad Vashem’s chief historian Dina Porat said Tuesday that “we can live with” much of the joint Holocaust declaration by Israel and Poland that has come in for criticism, including from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Porat in an interview with Israel’s Kan national broadcaster said the declaration should be changed but not canceled. The declaration made…
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Fast Forward Germany Increases Funding For Holocaust Survivors Globally By $88 Million
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement Tuesday said the increase brings global allocations by Germany for 2019 to $564 million. The Claims Conference and representatives of the German government negotiated the…
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Fast Forward Knesset Bill Allows Surrogacy For Single Women, But Not Same-Sex Couples
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee amended legislation on surrogacy to make single women eligible for the procedure but not same-sex couples. The surrogacy bill will now go to the Knesset for its second and third reading before becoming law. Currently, only couples who are married and heterosexual have the right to hire a surrogate…
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Fast Forward Roseanne Barr Will Film Own Interview, Explain ‘What Happened And Why’
(JTA) — A day after Roseanne Barr announced that she would be interviewed on television, she tweeted that she will film her own interview and post it on-line. Barr’s tweet promised her 891,000 Twitter followers “the entire explanation of what happened and why.” After a lot of thought, I decided that I won’t be doing…
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