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Fast Forward Rabbi Helping Palestinian Olive Harvest Attacked by Extremist
Israeli police said they were searching for a Jew accused of assaulting a leader of the Rabbis for Human Rights organization near Nablus. The man, who The Jerusalem Post reported was described as a right-wing Jewish Israeli activist, on Friday allegedly lunged while holding a knife at Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who was not injured. Ascherman…
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Fast Forward Did Israel Carry Out ‘Dry Run’ for Iran Bombing Mission?
Israel violated Iranian airspace in 2012 in what U.S. officials interpreted as a dry run for a strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal’s report Friday, the United States had “closely monitored Israel’s military bases and eavesdropped on secret communications” during 2012, fearing that Israel was…
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Fast Forward Islamic State Puts Out First Terror Video in Hebrew
Israeli media circulated an online video that features the symbol of the Islamic State terror group and an armed militant, as well as vocal threats in Hebrew aimed at Israeli Jews. The video, which surfaced online earlier this week, was described by some media as the Islamic State’s first message in Hebrew, but Army Radio…
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Fast Forward UN Disciplines Palestinian Staffers for Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
Several employees of the U.N. agency handling Palestinian refugees were punished for disseminating content that promoted violence or anti-Semitism, a United Nations official said. The punishments, which included suspension and loss of pay “in a number of cases so far,” were made public on Oct. 20 on the website of the office of the spokesperson…
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Fast Forward 40% of Conservative Rabbis Would Perform Intermarriages
A survey of 249 Conservative rabbis finds that almost half have defied the movement’s ban on attending interfaith weddings and that 40 percent would officiate at such weddings if the movement permitted them to do so. The survey, conducted by the New York-based Big Tent Judaism (formerly named the Jewish Outreach Institute) is believed to…
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Fast Forward France Court Upholds ‘BDS Is Discrimination’ Ruling
France’s highest court of appeals confirmed earlier rulings that found promoters of a boycott against Israel guilty of inciting hate or discrimination. The rulings passed on Tuesday by the Paris-based Court of Cassation confirmed the Nov. 27 convictions of 12 individuals by the Colmar Court of Appeals in connection with their 2009 and 2010 actions…
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Fast Forward Berkeley Commission Rejects Divestment Resolution 5-2
A Berkeley, California, commission rejected a resolution to divest from companies that do business with Israel. The Berkeley City Human Welfare and Community Action Commission voted 5-2 against the resolution, with one abstention, on Wednesday night. City Attorney Zach Cowan said the issue was not within the purview of the commission, which generally addresses issues…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Jewish Man Mistaken for a Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Jewish man in Jerusalem that they believed to be a terrorist, echoing a similar case in Beersheba. Hours earlier on Wednesday, four Jewish-Israeli men were arrested in the assault of an Eritrean man in the wake of a terrorist attack in Beersheba. The Eritrean was attacked…
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