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Fast Forward Rabbis Say Reporting Child Sex Abuse Is Must for Ultra-Orthodox
More than 100 haredi Orthodox rabbis and teachers in the United States have signed a proclamation saying that Jewish law obligates all Jews to report suspected child sex abuse to the authorities. The proclamation, called a “kol koreh,” was released in recent days. It cites the statement in the Book of Leviticus – “Do not…
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Fast Forward Reuven Rivlin Stakes Israel Claim to Rule West Bank
Israel’s right to rule the West Bank “is not a matter of political debate,” President Reuven Rivlin said. Meeting Monday with West Bank leaders, Rivlin also said that “settlement of the land of Israel” is an expression of that claim, which puts Israel on a collision course with the rest of the world and conflicts…
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Fast Forward Lakewood Man Faces Jail for Carving Swastika in Lawn
A Lakewood, N.J. man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for carving a swastika into his neighbors’ lawn. The sentence handed down Friday in Superior Court comes about one year after Scott Cooney was arrested and charged with bias intimidation. His neighbors in an adult housing development had watched as Cooney, 36, carved the…
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Fast Forward Freed African MIgrants Banned From Tel Aviv
The some 1,200 illegal migrants who will be released from a Negev detention facility will not be allowed to settle in Tel Aviv or Eilat. The migrants, most asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, will receive a temporary residence permit when they leave the Holot detention center, which will prevent them from entering the two…
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Fast Forward Dutch Man Offers $11K Bounty for Murder of ‘Devilish’ Jewish Neighbor
A Dutch man offered on Facebook to pay 10,000 euros, or about or $11,500, to anyone willing to kill his Jewish neighbor. The man posted the message recently, along with anti-Semitic statements, in connection with his long quarrel with his apartment building neighbor, Gabriela Hirschberg, and her partner, The De Telegraaf daily reported. The report…
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Fast Forward Israel Deepens Ties to Kurds With $1B Oil Buy
Israel has purchased $1 billion worth of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, the Financial Times reported. The import of some 19 million barrels of oil took place over the last three months, The Financial Times report said, citing shipping data, trading sources and satellite tanker tracking. The amount represents about one third of…
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Fast Forward Mayim Bialik: Being Religious Isn’t Trendy in Hollywood
People of faith working in Hollywood are often out of step with the entertainment industry, American actress Mayim Bialik said. “I think in general it’s never going to be trendy to be observant or religious in Hollywood circles,” Bialik, 39, told Fox411 in an interview broadcast over the weekend. “There are people I know of…
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Fast Forward Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid Announces Support for Iran Nuclear Deal
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced his support for the Iran nuclear deal. Reid (D-Nev.) called the deal the “best way” to curtail Iran’s military ambitions, in an interview Sunday with the Washington Post. “This is the best way, the only way, to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” Reid said. Reid also told…
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