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Fast Forward 2 Indicted in Extremist Arson on Church of Loaves and Fishes
Two suspects in the alleged arson attack on a historic church in northern Israel are slated to be indicted. The indictments stemming from the June 18 attack on the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes are scheduled to be handed down Wednesday in Nazareth Magistrate’s Court, Haaretz reported. The suspects have been…
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Fast Forward Oklahoma City Jews Bury Holocaust Victim’s Skull
Members of the Oklahoma City Jewish community buried the remains of a Jewish Holocaust victim at a local cemetery. The traditional Jewish funeral was held Sunday at the Fairlawn Cemetery in the Oklahoma capital, The Oklahoman reported. A local minister had received the remains of the woman, a skull, from the daughter-in-law of a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Cancer Teen Pleads in Video for Death With Dignity
A Haredi Orthodox teenager has released a video calling on the Israeli public to demonstrate in front of a Haifa hospital to demand that it discontinue his chemotherapy treatment. The unnamed Israeli teen, 16, from Tiberias, says in the video released on Sunday that he is receiving the treatment against his will. “Dear people of…
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Fast Forward Conservative Synagogue in Israel Booby Trapped on Tisha B’Av
A Conservative synagogue in central Israel filed a complaint with police after it was booby trapped on Tisha b’Av eve. The front doors of the Yedid Nefesh synagogue in Modiin were blocked with potted plants and ropes were tied in front of other synagogue exits in order to trip congregants leaving the building while members…
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Fast Forward Pollard’s Ex-Wife Wants Israel To Hire Top Lawyer for Parole Hearing
Anne Pollard, Jonathan Pollard’s ex-wife, said the Israeli government should pay for a top attorney to represent him at his parole hearing in November. “I just want to see him out, I can’t bear it anymore, that he sat and lost all of his life in jail, it’s a crime, it’s such a crime,” Anne…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Babies Born in Israel to Identical Twin Parents
The Breslov Hasidic community in Israel is calling the birth of two baby girls 20 minutes apart a miracle. The girls born last week in Netanya are the daughters of two couples – identical twin brothers born 20 minutes apart and married to identical twin sisters born 20 minutes apart. The births at the Laniado…
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Fast Forward Mariah Carey Will Earn $500,000 for Debut Israel Concert
Mariah Carey reportedly will make $500,000 for her first concert in Israel. Tickets for the American pop star’s August performance in Tel Aviv are going for about $65 and up, TMZ reported, noting that was “pretty affordable for Mariah standards.” The concert comes less than two months after Carey made her first visit to Israel…
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Fast Forward Huckabee: Obama Leading Israelis to ‘Door of the Oven’
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, talking about the Iran nuclear deal, said President Barack Obama will march Israelis “to the door of the oven.” Huckabee, in an interview Saturday with Breitbart News, evoked Holocaust images of the ovens used to dispose of the bodies of Jews gassed in Nazi concentration camps. “This president’s foreign policy…
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