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Fast Forward Second Jewish Adviser Off Trump Team
CORRECTION: JTA is retracting this brief sent out yesterday; Roger Stone is not Jewish. The Donald Trump presidential campaign and Jewish adviser Roger Stone have parted ways. The Trump campaign claimed that it fired Stone, while Stone said he resigned. The split, reportedly over several controversies rocking the billionaire Republican’s bid for the White House,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Shot Dead After Stabbing Israeli
A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops after he stabbed an Israeli man at a West Bank gas station. The 26-year-old victim was slightly injured in the attack near Modiin, in central Israel, where he was filling up his car, the Israel Defense Forces said. He reportedly was attacked by a group of approximately…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Interference in Iran Deal Debate Is Unprecedented, Obama Says
President Barack Obama said he does not remember a time when a foreign leader interfered in a U.S. foreign policy debate the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has over the Iran nuclear deal. “On the substance, the prime minister is wrong on this,” Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview conducted Thursday but…
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Fast Forward Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Supporting Iran Deal
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced his support for the Iran nuclear deal. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, offered his backing in a statement Friday following a telephone conversation with President Barack Obama, who addressed some of his concerns, Sanders said. He talked about his decision during an interview aired Sunday morning on the…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem’s Arab-Jewish School Targeted on Waze App
The Waze listing for an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem was changed to a threat. The navigation app owned by Google removed the words Sunday after it was brought to the company’s attention, Reuters reported. The principal of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School, Nadia Kinani, told Reuters that she has been in touch…
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Fast Forward Dutch Chief Rabbi Wants Apology for Kingdom’s Holocaust Complicity
Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs called on the prime minister of the Netherlands to apologize officially for authorities’ collaboration with Nazi Germany in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. Weighing in on a polarizing debate over this issue in the kingdom – whose neighbors have all offered such apologies – Jacobs said in an…
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Fast Forward Brazil Omits Israel from Passports of Jerusalem-Born Citizens
Brazilian passports of citizens who were born in Jerusalem will no longer name Israel as country of birth, the foreign ministry in Brasilia decided. The decision to omit Israel from such documents was taken last year, the Brazilian embassy in Tel Aviv told the Folha de Sao Paulo daily, which published an article on the…
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Fast Forward Nine Suspected Jewish Extremists Arrested After Arson
Israeli security forces arrested nine suspected Jewish extremists in two West Bank outposts, a day after the death of a Palestinian man whose home was firebombed more than a week ago. Sa’ad Dawabsheh, 31, died Saturday morning, more than a week after his home in the Palestinian village of Duma was firebombed, killing his infant…
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