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Fast Forward Z Street Gets Green Light for Israel Bias Case
An appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on June 19 ruled against the government’s argument that Z Street’s 2010 lawsuit should be dismissed under laws banning lawsuits that seek to…
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Fast Forward Josh Mandel Won’t Return White Supremacist Donation
Josh Mandel, the Jewish Ohio treasurer who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012, will not return a campaign donation from a white supremacist. An array of Republican candidates who have received donations from Earl Holt, the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens, are returning his donations in the wake of reports that the…
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Fast Forward After Charleston, Solidarity Shabbat With Blacks Planned
An array of Jewish groups representing every major religious stream has declared this coming Shabbat one of solidarity with the African American community in the wake of the Charleston, S.C. mass killing. A release Tuesday including among its signatories representative groups of the Conservative, Reform, Orthodox and Reconstructionist streams “to speak out in synagogues this…
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Fast Forward JNF Plans $100M Israel Advocacy Center After Massive Gift
The Jewish National Fund has created a $100 million center to advocate for and educate about Israel, saying it “is needed now more than ever.” The JNF Boruchin Israel Education Advocacy Center announced earlier this month aims to strengthen all Americans’ connections to the land and people of Israel, now and in the future, JNF…
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Fast Forward White House Says Racist Tweet by Israeli ‘Quite Revealing’
A racist tweet mocking President Barack Obama posted by the wife of an Israeli government minister was “revealing,” the White House spokesman said. “I think if there’s one thing we’ve certainly learned from this incident — it’s not the only time we’ve learned this — but that on Twitter you’re limited to 140 characters, but…
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Fast Forward Did Miami Rabbi Pay Hush Money Over Molestation Claim?
Newly released surveillance video shows a Miami Beach rabbi accused of molesting an 11-year-old girl giving the girl’s mother an envelope that is believed to contain money. The mother turned the envelope from Rabbi Steve Karro over to Miami Beach police, Miami’s Local10 reported Monday. The envelope contained at least $500 in cash, the television…
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Fast Forward Israelis Object to Orthodox-Only Rabbi Rules: Poll
More than two-thirds of Israelis object to the removal of a Conservative rabbi from a bar mitzvah ceremony for disabled children intended to take place at the Israeli president’s residence. The ceremony has been run for 20 years by the Conservative movement and was scheduled to take place at the end of June. It was…
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Fast Forward British Teens Busted for Stealing Auschwitz Artifacts
Two British teenagers were arrested in Poland after police found in their backpacks items believed to be stolen from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Polish police were notified Monday by museum security guards of the suspected theft of buttons, a fragment of a hair clipper, and a piece of a spoon which belonged to prisoners of Birkenau….
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