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Fast Forward White House Slams Palestinian ICC Push as ‘Counterproductive’
The White House said efforts to have Israel charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court are “counterproductive” and would be opposed by Washington. The statement came hours after Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki handed ICC prosecutors a file detailing alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza and describing construction in the West Bank…
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Fast Forward Marrakesh Jewish Quarter Gets $20M Facelift
The Moroccan government plans to rehabilitate the ancient Jewish quarter of Marrakesh. The Jewish quarter renovation, estimated to cost $20 million, is part of a larger $32 million city rehabilitation effort jointly funded by Morocco’s housing ministry and the City of Marrakesh, Morocco World News reported. Marrakesh’s Jewish quarter, known as the Mellah, was built…
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Eritreans Rally for Refugee Status in Israel
Hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel demonstrated, calling for the Jewish state to recognize them as refugees. Rallying outside the European Union delegation’s Israeli headquarters near Tel Aviv Thursday, demonstrators praised the recently released United Nations report on human rights abuses in the African country and called on both European states and Israel to…
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Fast Forward Art Museums Take ‘Hostile Approach’ to Push on Nazi-Looted Art
United States art museums are using “procedural defenses” and a “hostile approach” to renege on their responsibility to return Nazi-looted art to its owners and heirs, a new report says. Singling out several prominent museums for criticism, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of…
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Fast Forward New Gaza Flotilla Leaves Port in Greece
A flotilla of boats planning to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip left a Greek port. The five Freedom Flotilla III boats, which left Crete on Thursday, are scheduled to arrive near the Gaza coast in three days. The boats are carrying solar panels and medical equipment, according to Ship to Gaza Sweden….
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Fast Forward Looted Painting From Trove Fetches Nearly $3M
A Nazi-looted painting that was returned to its owners last month from the collection of the late art collector Cornelius Gurlitt was sold at auction. Max Liebermann’s “Two Riders on the Beach” was among the most valuable of the more than 1,400 artworks discovered in Gurlitt’s home in Munich and later in a second home…
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Fast Forward ‘Sauna Rabbi’ Jonathan Rosenblatt Vows To Fight for Job
Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt told his congregants that he plans to continue serving as spiritual leader of the Riverdale Jewish Center despite media attention over his method of outreach to young men. Rosenblatt’s unusual behavior of inviting young males to join him for naked heart-to-heart talks in the sauna has prompted talk about a contract buyout…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency To Create ‘Conversion Courts’ for Immigrants
The Jewish Agency for Israel plans to establish special overseas courts for people wishing to convert to Judaism. The group’s board of governors overwhelmingly voted in favor of the plan at a meeting in Tel Aviv Wednesday. Under the plan, the agency will send rabbis to work with the courts and help local rabbis ensure…
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