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Fast Forward After Israel Trip, Scott Walker Announces White House Run
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who recently visited Israel on a self-described “listening tour,” said he is running for president. Walker’s official announcement for the Republican nomination came on Monday morning, three days after he accidentally posted a message on his official campaign Twitter account that said he was running. “I’m in. I’m running for president…
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Fast Forward French Anti-Semitic Attacks Rise 84% After Kosher Market Terror
The number of anti-Semitic attacks recorded in France during the first quarter of 2015 increased by 84 percent over the corresponding period last year, a watchdog group said. The SPCJ security service of France’s Jewish communities released the figures Monday in a quarterly report that counted 508 anti-Semitic acts recorded between January 2015 and May…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Barry Freundel Appeals Prison Sentence for Mikveh-Peeping
Rabbi Barry Freundel is appealing the length of his prison sentence for filming women nude at a ritual bath. Freundel, who was sentenced in May to 6 1/2 years for videotaping dozens of women at a Washington, D.C., mikveh, is arguing that he should have been sentenced to no more than one year in prison,…
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Fast Forward German Will Be Taught in Israeli Schools
Israeli public schools will introduce a German-language elective for ninth-graders. The program will start in five schools, the German-language Israelnetz online news agency reported. Israeli and German officials signed a Joint Declaration of Intent last week to enable official exams to be administered and German language certificates awarded that will be recognized in Israeli and…
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Fast Forward Germany Will Help Tel Aviv Preserve Bauhaus Architectural Legacy
Germany is committed to help Israel preserve an architectural legacy that recalls Jewish design pioneers who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Germany will invest $3.2 million over the coming nine years to help save Bauhaus-style buildings in the historic “White City” district of Tel Aviv, Barbara Hendricks, German minister for the Environment, Nature…
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Fast Forward Iran Nuclear Talks Expected To Yield Provisional Agreement Today
Nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers are expected to end Sunday with a provisional agreement. Unnamed diplomats told the Associated Press on Sunday that final details were being worked out and that an official announcement of the deal would come on Monday. The seven countries involved in the talks will then have to…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Arrest Suspects for Arson at Church of Loaves and Fishes
Israel Police made several arrests in connection with last month’s arson attack on a historic church in northern Israel. The arrests took place Sunday morning, and the investigation is continuing, police spokesman MIcky Rosenfeld announced. A fire believed to have been an arson attack on June 18 struck the Church of the Multiplication of the…
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Fast Forward Polish Locals, Jews Commemorate Jedwabne Pogrom
The 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne was commemorated by representatives of the Jewish community and local residents, at the site of the atrocity in Poland. “I’m lucky to meet in Poland very good people, the righteous and those who do a lot for Jewish history and culture,” Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari said at Friday’s…
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