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Fast Forward 3 Israeli-American Kids Who Refused To See Dad Freed From Juvenile Detention
Three American-Israeli children can spend their summer at camp rather than juvenile detention, where they were sent for refusing to see their father. A family court judge in Michigan lifted her contempt of court order against the Detroit-area kids on Friday, the Detroit Free Press reported. Liam Tsimhoni, 14, and his siblings, Rowie, 10, and…
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Fast Forward Israel Teachers Union Denies Backing Settlement Boycott
The Israel Teachers Union denied reports that it signed a document calling for a boycott of West Bank settlements. The denial, published Friday on the union’s website, was in reaction to a report by Channel 10 Thursday that union delegates signed the document in order to prevent the adoption of another text with harsher language…
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Fast Forward Did Quebec Bungle Abuse Probe Into Hasidic Fringe Sect?
Child protection officials in Quebec mishandled reports of child abuse within the fringe Jewish sect Lev Tahor, a provincial report said. In November 2013, about 250 Lev Tahor members fled the town of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, north of Montreal, to avoid a hearing in youth court. The group was facing allegations of child abuse and neglect from…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Hideout for Jews Preserved as Poland National Monument
Polish officials registered a rare hideout used by Jews during the Holocaust as national monument. The hideout in Rekowka, a village situated 90 miles south of Warsaw, was used by two non-Jewish families, the Skoczylas and Kosioróws, for sheltering several Jews in 1942, according to the Holocaust commemoration organization From the Depths, which facilitated the…
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Fast Forward Slurs Against Reform Jews Spur Israel Roundtable
The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office will convene a roundtable of representatives from Jewish religious movements and government ministries to address the movements’ concerns. The decision to form the roundtable follows statements denigrating Reform Jews made by Religious Services Minister David Azoulay of the Haredi Orthodox Shas party, Jewish Agency…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Admits Aide Bullied Family of Israeli Held in Gaza
An Israeli official apologized for telling a family of immigrants from Ethiopia not to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of their son’s captivity in Gaza. Lior Lotan, the prime minister’s aide for missing and captive persons, apologized Thursday in a written statement, following the publication of a recording of his meeting earlier this week with the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Whiz Kid Finds Museum Math Mistake — or Does He?
Joseph Rosenfeld, a 15-year-old Jewish math enthusiast from Virginia, has the media abuzz about the golden ratio, after questioning the accuracy of a display at the Museum of Science in Boston. Rosenfeld, a sophomore at Handley High School in Winchester, Virginia, is suddenly in the media spotlight, with coverage from the Boston Globe, Britain’s Daily…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Slams Israeli Archeological Digs in East Jerusalem
Israeli officials deplored UNESCO’s condemnation of Israeli archaeological activity in Jerusalem’s Old City. At a meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted 13-2, with five abstentions, to keep the Old City on its list of endangered World Heritage sites. It condemned the “persistence of the Israeli illegal excavations” in the…
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