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Fast Forward Jordan Farmar Returning to Maccabi Tel Aviv
Jordan Farmar, a Jewish NBA player who won two league championships as a member of his hometown Los Angeles Lakers, is heading back to Israel to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Farmar, who is Jewish, played 16 games for Maccabi Tel Aviv during the NBA lockout of 2011. The 6-2 guard, a standout at UCLA,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Mayors Call on European Counterparts to Condemn Anti-Semitism
Mayors from several major U.S. cities have signed on to an initiative calling on American mayors to ask their European counterparts to condemn anti-Semitism. The Mayors United Against Anti-Semitism initiative, which was launched by the American Jewish Committee in May at its conference in Brussels, also urges the mayors to work to stop the recent…
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Fast Forward Report: Woman Denied Entrance to Western Wall for Wearing Kippah
Security guards prevented an American woman from entering the Western Wall plaza because she was wearing a kippah, the Women of the Wall group said. On Monday, guards and officials from the Western Wall Heritage Foundation asked the woman, identified only as Linda, who “authorized” her to wear a kippah, Women of the Wall said…
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Fast Forward 6 Bedouin-Israeli Teachers Arrested for Promoting ISIS
Six Bedouin-Israelis, four of them teachers, were indicted for their support of the Islamic State jihadist group. Several of the men, from the Negev town of Hura, planned to join and fight with ISIS in Syria, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said in a Monday. The arrests took place over the last two months. The…
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Fast Forward Shlomo Riskin: Chief Rabbinate Should Be More Inclusive
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin called on Israel’s Chief Rabbinate to dedicate itself to a more inclusive outlook on Israeli society. On Monday, in his first public remarks since the controversy over his tenure as chief rabbi of Efrat, Riskin said the Chief Rabbinate never attempted to reach out to him directly to explain the reason for…
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Fast Forward Rabbinical Council of America Conversion Panel Issues Recommendations
A committee established by the Rabbinical Council of America to review its conversion processes has submitted its report featuring recommendations in nine areas of the process. The review was put in place nine months ago after one of the RCA’s leading conversion rabbis, Barry Freundel, was arrested on voyeurism charges. Freundel was sentenced to 6…
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Fast Forward Waze To Launch Carpool Program in Israel
The popular Israeli navigation app Waze is launching a pilot carpooling program in Israel. Waze, which Google purchased for $1 billion in 2013, is testing the new application, RideWith, in the greater Tel Aviv area, Reuters reported. RideWith will use the Waze navigation system to learn the routes drivers take to work and pair them…
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Fast Forward Rivlin Calls for Trust Between Arabs and Jews at Iftar Meal
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin called for building trust between the Arab and Jewish communities in Israel, during an Iftar meal with Arab leaders at his Jerusalem residence. “The citizenship of the Arab residents of the State of Israel is not a goodwill gesture,” Rivlin said in a meeting with Arabic media Sunday night before the…
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