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Fast Forward Vatican Group Seeks Indictment of Far-Right Jewish Leader
A Vatican group is asking Israel’s attorney general to indict the head of a far-right Jewish group who recently expressed approval for destroying churches in Israel. The Custody of the Holy Land, in a letter sent to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Sunday, said that Rabbi Benzi Gopstein of the group Lehava poses a threat…
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Fast Forward Controversial Study Claims Israel Spends Twice As Much on West Bank Students
A new study, which the Israeli Education Ministry has claimed is inaccurate, has found that the government spends nearly twice as much per Jewish student in isolated West Bank settlements as on the average Israeli pupil. According to the new study by the Tel Aviv-based Macro Center for Political Economics, which according to its website…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Opens Near Rio’s Famed Ipanema Beach
An Orthodox synagogue was opened officially a few blocks from the iconic Ipanema Beach in Brazil. Some 1,200 people attended Sunday’s inauguration of the four-story, 440-seat synagogue in Rio de Janeiro named for Edmond Safra, the late Brazilian Jewish billionaire and philanthropist whose foundation funded much of the project. The 20,000-square foot building, which replaces…
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Fast Forward Israel Releases At Least 9 Jewish Suspects in Firebombing of Palestinian Home
Israel has released at least nine West Bank Jews who were arrested as part of the investigation into the firebombing of a Palestinian home that left a baby and his father dead. At least nine people were arrested Sunday in raids on two West Bank outposts; the details on the raids are under a gag…
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Fast Forward 29 Top U.S. Scientists Praise Iran Nuclear Deal in Letter to Obama
Twenty-nine top U.S. scientists praised the Iran nuclear deal in a letter to President Barack Obama. Signers of the letter, which was sent Friday, include high-level nuclear scientists, physicists and Nobel laureates, The New York Times reported. Among them are Richard Garwin, a physicist who helped design the world’s first hydrogen bomb and a Washington…
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Fast Forward Paris City Counselor Wants To Cancel ‘Tel Aviv Sur Seine’ Festival
A French watchdog against anti-Semitism condemned a Paris city council member who called to cancel a city festival dedicated to Tel Aviv. One day of the week-long Paris Plages festival, which will turn the banks of the Seine river into a beach and this year will devote each day to a beach in another country,…
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Fast Forward Reform Rabbis Join NAACP March from Selma to Washington
More than 150 Reform Jewish rabbis are marching with the NAACP from the Deep South to the U.S. capital to promote social justice. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are participants in the NAACP’s Journey for Justice, an 860-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to Washington, D.C. The…
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Fast Forward Israeli Doctors Refuse to Force Feed Hunger-Striking Palestinian Prisoner
Doctors at an Israeli hospital refused to force feed a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for over 50 days. Following the refusals on Sunday, prisoner Mohammed Allaan was moved from Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba to the Barzalai Medical Center in Ashkelon, according to reports. Allaan, who has been held in…
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