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Fast Forward Extremist Lehava Head Says He Supports Burning of Churches and Mosques
(JTA) — The head of the extremist Lehava anti-co-existence group said he supports the burning of churches and mosques. Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein made the statement during a symposium on the topic of halacha, or Jewish religious law on Tuesday night at the Wolfson Yeshiva in Jerusalem. The statement was first reported Wednesday evening by the haredi…
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Fast Forward 4 Gazans Killed By Detonation of Israeli Rocket Found in Rubble
At least four Palestinians were killed and more than 30 wounded in southern Gaza when unexploded ordnance from last summer’s war with Israel was moved. The rocket went off while rubble was being cleared from a home in Rafah in order to begin reconstruction, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The four killed were all…
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Fast Forward 5 Injured in Bridge Collapse at Swiss Kosher Hotel
Five people were injured, one of them seriously, when a walkway bridge collapsed at a kosher hotel in Switzerland. The accident occurred on Tuesday at the Metropol Hotel, a four-star establishment that opened 80 years ago in the Alpine town of Arosa, the online edition of the Tachles Jewish weekly reported. The person seriously injured…
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Fast Forward Final Madoff Defendant Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison
The last defendant charged in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme was sentenced to six months in prison. Irwin Lipkin, who pleaded guilty to faking records while comptroller for Madoff’s firm, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, The Associated Press reported. Lipkin, 77, cited health problems in pleading to be spared jail time, according…
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Fast Forward At Least One Firebombing Suspect in Israeli Administrative Detention Is U.S. Citizen
At least one of the three suspected Jewish terrorists facing administrative detention in Israel has American citizenship, his parents said. Gedalia and Sarah Meyer, whose 18-year-old son, Mordechai, is in custody without being formally charged in the aftermath of the firebombing last week that killed a Palestinian toddler, referenced their family’s U.S. citizenship on Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Village Makes Parents Choose: Smartphone or Children’s Education
Most schools forbid the use of cellphones by students during class, but in the Hasidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel, New York, it’s the parents who are being required to power down. At the end of July, a notice was sent to families in the haredi Orthodox community about 50-miles northwest of New York City…
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Fast Forward Obama Calls Out Israel Opposition to Iran Deal
President Barack Obama said Israel’s government was the only one openly against the Iran deal, but added that he understood its concerns. “This is the strongest nonproliferation agreement ever negotiated, and because this is such a strong deal, every nation in the world that has commented publicly, with the exception of the Israeli government, has…
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Fast Forward Full Transcript: Obama’s Speech on the Iran Deal
President Barack Obama is continuing to advocate for the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran. Here is a full transcript of his remarks on Wednesday at American University in Washington, D.C. OBAMA: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody, please have a seat. Thank you very much. I apologize for the…
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