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Fast Forward Are Pro-Israel Groups Squelching Free Speech on Campus?
A Jewish pro-Palestinian group has issued a report claiming that Israel advocates are using “false charges” to silence criticism of Israel on U.S. campuses. The Jewish Voice for Peace report was released on Wednesday, the same day that Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a separate report making similar arguments. Called “Stifling…
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Fast Forward Abe Foxman Takes Post at Israel Think Tank
Abraham Foxman, the former longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, has accepted a role at an Israeli policy think tank. Foxman will be a distinguished nonresident fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, the organization announced in a news release sent Wednesday. He will work on “issues of combating anti-Semitism and…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Steve Gutow Named to National Faith Council
President Barack Obama named the outgoing president of the national Jewish public policy umbrella to an advisory council on faith and government. Obama on Sept. 24 included Rabbi Steve Gutow, a Reconstructionist rabbi who by the end of this year will step down after 10 years leading the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, among 18…
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Fast Forward 50,000 Receive Priestly Blessing at the Kotel
Thousands of people gathered at Jerusalem’s Western Wall amid heavy security for the holiday Priestly Blessing. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation estimated Wednesday morning’s crowd at 50,000, while media reports put the number in attendance at between 50,000 and 150,000. The mass blessing, called Birkat Kohanim in Hebrew, is held on an intermediate day during…
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Fast Forward Spain Starts Review of Sephardic Citizenship Claims
Spanish officials will begin reviewing citizenship applications by some 4,500 individuals who identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews, the country’s Jewish communities said. The review is set to begin on Oct. 2 following the adoption and passing earlier this year of Law 12/2015 and a related amendment to the kingdom’s civil code, the Federation…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back at Gaza After Ashdod Rocket Attack
Israel’s Air Force attacked what the Israeli military called four “terrorist sites” in the Gaza Strip after a rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted over the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod at least one rocket fired from Gaza late on Monday night, the IDF said. No…
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Fast Forward Norway Cartoon Equates Israel With North Korea and Nazis
Israel has called on a Norwegian daily newspaper to apologize for a cartoon that equates Israel with Nazi Germany and North Korea. The cartoon appeared on Sept. 24 in the daily newspaper Dagbladet. In a letter to the editor published on Tuesday, Dan Poraz, first secretary at the Israeli Embassy in Oslo, called the cartoon…
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Fast Forward Leaving for UN, Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Palestinians for Jerusalem Violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will call for an end to incitement on the Temple Mount and discuss “Israel’s desire for peace with the Palestinians” during a meeting with John Kerry. Netanyahu also said that during his address this week to the United Nations General Assembly he would speak about the Iran nuclear…
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