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Fast Forward Temple Mount Activists Offer $516 Bounty to Arrested Jews
Religious extremists pushing for Jews to be allowed to pray at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount are pledging to step up their efforts, with one group offering to pay $516 to any Jew arrested for praying there. Returning to the Mount, a group that advocates for Jewish sovereignty over the holy site and the rebuilding of the…
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Fast Forward New York Federation Guarantees $1.4M Loans to Jerusalem Businesses
North America’s largest Jewish federation announced it has allocated $200,000 to guarantee $1.4 million in emergency loans for Jerusalem businesses. The loans, made through the Jewish Agency’s Loan Funds Initiative, are to help businesses that have been hurt by the upsurge of violence in the city in recent weeks. “The wave of terror has significantly…
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Fast Forward Dutch Soccer Fans Hold Anti-Semitic Banners
A Dutch soccer club said it was working to identify fans who held up a sign during a recent match with the initials of the phrase “Jews have cancer.” The Vitesse club from Arnhem told the Gelderlander daily that it would have intervened to stop or punish the fans from holding up the sign on…
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Fast Forward Earl Raab, San Francisco JCRC Leader, Dies at 92
Earl Raab, a sociologist, Jewish community advocate and longtime director of the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council, has died. Raab, who was also a commentator and author on American political culture and the Jewish experience in America, died Oct. 24 in Forest Knolls, California. He was 96. He served as director of the San…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Meets Jews on 50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate
Jewish leaders met with Pope Francis in Rome on the 50th anniversary of the Nostra Aetate, the declaration promulgated by Pope Paul VI that led to improved relations between Jews and Catholics. “Yes to the rediscovery of the Jewish roots of Christianity. No to anti-Semitism,” the pope said Wednesday morning during the public audience on…
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Fast Forward Arab Lawmaker Defies Ban With Temple Mount Visit
An Arab-Israeli lawmaker visited the Temple Mount, going against a directive issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Basel Ghattas of the Arab Joint List visited the Temple Mount on Wednesday. Ghattas, who is Christian, said after his visit that he saw Jews praying at the site who were not stopped by police standing nearby, and…
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Fast Forward Walmart Yanks Israeli Soldier Halloween Costume
Walmart pulled an Israeli soldier costume and a “Sheik Fagin” prosthetic nose, after facing a backlash from social media. The products reportedly were removed from the company’s website and from store shelves on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the American-Arab Anti-Discriminatory Committee called on Walmart and other retailers to remove the products as well as others…
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Fast Forward West Bank Town Names Street After East Jerusalem Killer
The hometown of a Palestinian who stabbed and murdered two Israelis in Jerusalem is naming a street in his honor. The municipality of Surda-Abu Qash in the northern West Bank announced it will name a street for Muhannad Halabi, Palestinian Media Watch reported, citing an article by Donia Al-Watan, a Palestinian news agency. Halabi, a…
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