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Fast Forward UN Sides With Jordan in Jesus Baptism Spat
The United Nations’ cultural agency has designated the east bank of the Jordan River as a World Heritage Site, saying Jordan’s side of the river is “believed to be” the place where Jesus was baptized. Tourists and religious pilgrims also come to Israel to get baptized on the river’s west bank, at a site operated…
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Fast Forward UN Calls for Release of 2 Israelis Held in Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Palestinians in Gaza to provide information about two Israelis believed to be held there. Ban on Monday also called for their prompt return to their families, the Associated Press reported. Ethiopian-Israel Avera Mengistu is believed to have climbed over the security fence between Israel and Gaza last September….
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Fast Forward New York Federation Raises $200M — Up 10%
UJA-Federation of New York raised $207.8 million in its recently completed fiscal year, nearly a 10 percent increase over last year. The Jewish federation said it raised the money from nearly 53,000 donors in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Of the $207.8 million raised, $150.8 million came through its annual campaign, while $33.9…
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Fast Forward Looted 2,000-Year-Old Stones Returned to Israeli Museum
Two Roman artifacts, each more than 2,000 years old, were left in the courtyard of an Israeli museum accompanied by an anonymous note whose author claimed to have stolen them two decades earlier. The two sling stones left at the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures in Beersheba last week will be forwarded to…
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Fast Forward Black American Jews Turned Away at Israel Airport
Two black Jewish-Americans — a Florida woman and her son — reportedly were denied entry to Israel because authorities believed she was a member of the Black Hebrews community and planned to stay. Idit Malka and her 10-year-old son, Kahxin, were detained for 48 hours at Ben Gurion Airport and returned to the United States,…
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Fast Forward Israel Colonel Faces Trial for Gaza Clinic Revenge Shelling
Israel has opened its first investigation into the conduct of a senior military officer during last summer’s war with Gaza. Military police investigators on Monday launched the probe of Lt. Col. Neriya Yeshurun in the shelling of a clinic in northern Gaza, which Yeshurun is believed to have ordered in retaliation for the death by…
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Fast Forward ADL Says White Supremacists Commit 83% of Extremist Killings
White supremacists have committed about 83 percent of extremist-related murders in the United States in the last decade, according to a new Anti-Defamation League report. The report, released Monday, also found that most of those murders were perpetrated for non-ideological reasons. In addition, a slight majority of the shootouts between extremists of any kind and…
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Fast Forward American Forensic Pathologist Says Alberto Nisman Likely Murdered
A U.S. forensic pathologist believes that the late Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman likely was murdered. “The evidence argues strongly and scientifically against it being a suicide,” Cyril Wecht said in an interview aired by Argentina television’s Channel 13 on Sunday night. “It is much more likely that this was a homicide than a suicide.”…
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