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Fast Forward Ohio State Slams Marching Band’s Holocaust Spoof
Ohio State University condemned the behavior of students who wrote and distributed doggerel that ridiculed the Holocaust. The song, titled “Goodbye Kramer,” appeared in a book of parodies updated in 2012 and circulated privately by members of the Ohio State University marching band, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The lyrics, to be sung to…
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Fast Forward 2,000 Push Back Against Liverpool Neo-Nazi Rally
More than 2,000 people signed a petition asking police to protect Liverpool’s Jewish community from a neo-Nazi rally planned in the city. The White Man March, organized by far-right group National Action, is due to take place in the city center on August 15, The Jewish Chronicle of London reported Wednesday. The petition was launched…
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Fast Forward Democratic Congresswoman Will Vote No on Iran Deal
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Democrat who represents a heavily Jewish district in New York City, has come out in opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. “I believe the inspections procedures set forth are flawed — leading nuclear experts to assert that, pursuant to these procedures, inspectors would not necessarily know whether Iran is manufacturing…
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Fast Forward Argentina Asks If Nuclear Deal AMIA Suspect
Argentina’s government has expressed concern that the Iranian nuclear deal will benefit an Iranian suspect in the AMIA Jewish center bombing. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, in a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini, said he was worried about the possibility that the arrest…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Mob Attacks Orthodox Man in Zurich
A group of some 20 men making the Hitler salute and shouting anti-Semitic slogans assaulted an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich. The July 4 incident on a main street in the Swiss capital’s Wiedikon district was only reported recently in the national media in Switzerland following the completion of an initial investigation into the case,…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbis To Join Lobbying Push Against Iran Deal
The Orthodox Union is asking hundreds of rabbis to fly to Washington in September to lobby against the Iran nuclear deal. “We are confident that hundreds of rabbis traveling to Washington on the eve of this vote and just days before Rosh Hashanah will have a highly visible and real impact upon this fateful vote…
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Fast Forward Woman Demands Airline Apology After Orthodox Seat-Switch Fracas
A Canadian woman wants an apology from Porter Airlines after an ultra-Orthodox man refused to sit next to her. Christine Flynn, 31, said she was buckled in and waiting for Porter Airlines Flight 121 from Newark, N.J. to Toronto to take off early Monday morning when a haredi Orthodox Jewish man approached, CBC News reported…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomat Warns American Jews Split on Iran Deal in Secret Cable
A top Israeli diplomat in the United States wrote his superiors to warn that they cannot count on the U.S. Jewish community to oppose the Iran nuclear deal. “At this crucial point of the Iranian issue – which for years has been at the core of Israeli foreign policy and was described countless times by…
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