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Fast Forward Sephardic Rabbi Says Jews Sparked Temple Mount Violence With Visits
A leading Sephardic rabbi who advises the haredi Orthodox Shas party criticized Jews who have been visiting the Temple Mount, saying they “sparked all the current tumult.” Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a member of Shas’ Council of Torah Sages, said Thursday on a Shas radio program, according to Haaretz: “Do not provoke the nations, even if…
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Fast Forward Jewish Settler Leader’s Wife Hurt in Car Crash Caused by Stone-Throwers
Six people, including the wife and three children of a leader of Israeli settlers, were wounded in an accident caused by Palestinians who hurled stones at their car. Oriya Dagan, the wife of Yossi Dagan, head of the Regional Municipality of Samaria, and their children sustained minor injuries in the accident which occurred Friday afternoon…
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The Schmooze Molly Antopol Wins Hadassah Fiction Award
Author Molly Antopol has been named winner of Hadassah Magazine’s 2015 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. Antopol, author of the short-story collection “The UnAmericans,” will be honored at a ceremony in New York on Dec. 1. The prize has been awarded annually for the past 31 years to authors who create “an outstanding…
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Fast Forward Dennis Ross Points Finger at Susan Rice for Israel Rift
National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s failure to cultivate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to a breakdown in U.S.-Israel communication, a former top U.S. official said. Dennis Ross, who was President Barack Obama’s top Iran advisor from 2009-2011, said frequent communications between the Obama and Netanyahu governments between 2009 and 2012 tamped down the Israeli…
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Fast Forward Europe Council Reiterates Opposition to Circumcision
The Council of Europe refuted reports in Israeli media that it had canceled a resolution from 2013 that called nonmedical circumcision of boys a harmful violation of children’s rights. The clarification Thursday on the position of the Council, a body for pan-European dialog that has no executive powers and is not part of the European…
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Fast Forward Ben Carson Blames Holocaust on Gun Control
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson blamed gun control for the extent of the Holocaust. In an interview Thursday on CNN, Carson said fewer people would have been killed by the Nazis had more citizens been armed. “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the…
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Fast Forward Amid Unrest, Israel Halts Government Building Near Western Wall
Citing Palestinian terrorism, Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the shelving of a plan for constructing government offices near the Western wall in east Jerusalem. The suspension Thursday of the Beit Haliba complex comes amid what Netahyahu described on Wednesday as a “wave of terror” by Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel, and especially…
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Fast Forward New York Subway Must Run ‘Muslims Are Coming!’ Ad
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority must run advertisements promoting a film called “The Muslims Are Coming!” in subways, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision on Wednesday countered an MTA policy instituted in April that had banned political ads from subways and buses after an anti-Islamic ad by Pamela Geller’s American…
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