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Fast Forward Survey Suggests Strong Support for ‘Jew-Free’ Romania
Nearly a quarter of Romanian respondents on a survey on Jews said their country should have no Jewish residents. The results of the survey among 1,000 Romanian adults were published last week by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Holocaust Studies in Romania, which commissioned the Centre for Opinion and Market Studies to conduct the…
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Fast Forward Mother of Gay Pride Parade Stabber Speaks to Victim’s Family
The mother of the man who stabbed six marchers in the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride parade said she regrets her son’s actions. “We think it’s really a great tragedy, we regret it very much and pray for the recovery of the wounded,” Rivka Schlissel told family members of Shira Banki, 16, who died of her…
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Fast Forward Three Top House Dems Oppose Iran Nuclear Deal
Three top Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of representatives came out in opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. Rep. Nita Lowey, the senior Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the top Democrat on the House Middle East subcommittee, and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., who until last year…
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Fast Forward Meir Kahane’s Grandson To Stay in Administrative Detention
The suspected Jewish terrorist arrested as part of the Shin Bet’s investigation of a firebombing that killed a Palestinian toddler will be held in custody for at least six days. Officials said Tuesday that Meir Ettinger, a grandson of Meir Kahane born after the far-right Jewish extremist’s assassination, will stay in administrative detention until at…
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Fast Forward Polish Tribunal to Take Up Restitution Law on Warsaw Property
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal will consider legislation that sets a six-month deadline for the rightful pre-World War II owners of Warsaw properties or their heirs to participate in administrative proceedings. President Bronislaw Komorowski referred the legislation to the tribunal on Monday. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, which objects to the legislation passed in June by the…
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Fast Forward Air France ‘Deeply Regrets’ Omitting Israel from Map
Air France said it “deeply regrets” the technical problems that omitted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from in-flight map displays that showed Gaza and the West Bank. On Monday, Air France wrote on its official Twitter account that it “deeply regrets this incident. It is due to a map scale and display problem which is currently…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Urges U.S. Jews to Oppose Iran Deal
The Iran nuclear deal will pave the path to Iranian nuclear weapons whether or not Iran keeps its end of the agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Iran could get to the bomb by keeping the deal, or Iran could get to the bomb by violating the deal,” Netanyahu said in a 20-minute webcast…
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Fast Forward Shabbat Meal at European Maccabi Games Sets Guinness Record
A Shabbat meal at the European Maccabi Games has broken a Guinness World Record. Some 2,322 Jewish men and women gathered Friday night for a meal held by Chabad-Lubavitch at the games in Berlin, Chabad.org reported, making it the largest Shabbat meal ever. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, the head of Chabad in that German city, presided…
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