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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Won’t Challenge Kotel Torah Rules Due to Unrest
The Women of the Wall said they would not attempt to smuggle a Torah scroll to the Kotel during this month’s Rosh Hodesh prayer service due to the current security situation. In a letter sent Sunday to Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Women of the Wall Chairwoman Anat Hoffman said the women…
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Fast Forward French Academic Attacked in Suspected Hate Crime
A French-Jewish university director who has been the subject of an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation was assaulted outside his home near Paris. An unidentified individual attacked Samuel Mayol, the director of the Technical University Institution, or IUT, on the evening of Oct. 9 while Mayol was walking his dog in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis,…
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Fast Forward New York Times Tweaks Article Questioning Jewish Temples’ Existence on Temple Mount
The New York Times walked back an article that questioned whether two Jewish temples ever existed on the site of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The article, written by Rick Gladstone, a Times foreign editor, originally published on Oct. 8, read: “The question, which many books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is whether…
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Fast Forward Obama’s Ex-Pastor: Israel Is Apartheid State, ‘Jesus Was Palestinian’
Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s former pastor, called Israel an apartheid state and said “Jesus was a Palestinian” at a rally in Washington hosted by the Rev. Louis Farrakhan. At an hours-long event Saturday on the National Mall titled “Justice or Else,” Wright said that African-Americans, Native Americans and Palestinians have suffered under the “three-headed…
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Fast Forward Shin Bet’s No. 2 Approved as Head of Israel Police
The deputy director of the Shin Bet security service was approved as head of the Israel Police. On Sunday, Israel’s Cabinet unanimously backed the appointment of Ronen Alsheich, 52, as inspector general. His name had been under censorship rules since his nomination last month due to his position with the Shin Bet. Alsheich, who was…
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Fast Forward 3 Jewish Girls Allegedly Attack Arab Man with Pepper Spray in Jerusalem
A group of Jewish girls allegedly attacked an Arab man working in Jerusalem with pepper spray. Three suspects were detained for questioning after the incident downtown on Sunday, the Jerusalem Police reported. Also Sunday, five Israeli Jews were ordered held by the Rishon LeZion Magistrate’s Court after being arrested on suspicion of beating an Arab…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Reportedly Killed in Clashes with Israeli Troops
A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The clashes took place Sunday near Ramallah. Maan cited local medics in its report on the boy. Also Sunday in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and injured at least 50 Palestinians, including…
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Fast Forward 3 Israelis Injured in Kibbutz Stabbing Attack
Three Israeli civilians were injured in a stabbing attack at Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in northern Israel. Two of the victims — 19- and 14-year-old females — were moderately wounded in the attack on Sunday near Hadera. A 20-year-old man was lightly injured. The suspected assailant, identified by the Times of Israel as a young Arab…
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