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Fast Forward Ex-Shin Bet Chief: Extremist Ideology Growing Among Religious Zionists
The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet posted a lengthy missive on Facebook criticizing the government’s handling of Jewish terrorists. Yuval Diskin, who oversaw the security service from 2005 to 2011, wrote in Hebrew Friday that in the West Bank, far-right Jewish extremist ideology is not a fringe phenomenon limited to “dozens of delusional youth”…
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Fast Forward Reform Leaders OK Boy Scouts After 14-Year Ban
Reform Jewish leaders have lifted a 14-year prohibition against synagogues having Boy Scouts troops. The change of heart came in response to an announcement last Monday by the Boy Scouts of America that it was canceling its policy of banning gay adults from being scout leaders and other employees. In 2001 — shortly after the…
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Fast Forward Brad Sherman Is 6th Jewish Democrat to Oppose Iran Deal
Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said he will oppose the Iran deal, the sixth Jewish Democrat in Congress to come out against the nuclear agreement. Sherman, a senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, joins Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the committee’s senior Democrat, Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the senior Democrat on its Middle…
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Fast Forward Three Rockets Launched at Israel From Gaza, No Injuries
Terrorists from the Gaza Strip launched at Israel three rockets, one of which hit an uninhabited area in Israeli territory. Security forces were scanning the area where the rocket that landed in Israel was reported to have hit, Army Radio reported Friday. No one was injured in the explosion, which did not result in any…
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Fast Forward Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Threats Against Jewish Deli Owner
An Albuquerque, New Mexico man who made anti-Semitic threats against the Jewish owner of a local Jewish deli pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor hate crime. John W. Ng, 58, pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to four years probation, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New…
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Fast Forward Haredi Group Visits Victims of Gay Pride Stabbing
A handful of Haredi men visited Tel Aviv’s Gay Center to express solidarity following the deadly stabbing last week at Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade. The delegation of Haredim, or fervently Orthodox Jews, who came together and organized the visit as part of a grassroots initiative, arrived at the center at Gan Meir on Wednesday, Haaretz…
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Fast Forward GOP Candidate Say They Would Nix Iran Deal
Republicans in their first presidential debates said they would undo the Iran nuclear deal. “What happened in Iran is a disgrace and it’s going to lead to destruction in huge parts of the world,” Donald Trump, the real estate magnate leading in the polls, said Thursday In the second of two debates broadcast by Fox…
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Fast Forward New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Backs Iran Deal
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she would back what she called an “imperfect” Iran nuclear deal. Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York, said in a statement Thursday that Iran was likelier to obtain a nuclear weapon sooner should Congress kill the deal. “Iran will still be disruptive in the Middle East and fund terrorist…
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