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Fast Forward Dieudonne Loses Appeal On Parody of Holocaust Survivor’s Song
The French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala lost his appeal over the parody of a song by a French Jewish singer and Holocaust survivor. The country’s highest appeals court on Thursday upheld the ruling by the French Supreme Court in January and tacked on an additional daily fine for his not removing the parody from online…
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Fast Forward Ex-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Gets Combat Ship Named After Her
The U.S. Navy christened a combat ship named after former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, broke a bottle of sparkling wine across the ship’s bow during the naming ceremony Saturday at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. Giffords stepped down from her congressional seat…
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Fast Forward Bosnian Soccer Fans Chant Anti-Israel Slogans
Soccer fans in Bosnia chanted anti-Israel and anti-Jewish slogans during a match in Bosnia. Bosnian fans also stepped on an Israeli flag before the start of the Euro 2016 qualifying match between the Bosnian and Israeli national teams on Friday, the Jerusalem Post reported. Israel lost the match in Zenica, Bosnia by a score of…
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Fast Forward U. of Illinois Censured for Canceling Prof’s Job Over Anti-Semitic Tweets
A national professors’ organization voted to censure the University of Illinois for rescinding a job offer to a professor over his anti-Semitic tweets. The vote by the American Association of University Professors took place on Saturday at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. In April, the association released a report that found the university violated…
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Fast Forward Technion Gets $50 Million Gift — Largest Ever from an American Donor
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will receive a $50 million gift from Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, the largest ever from an American donor. The gift to the Haifa-based university was announced on Saturday during the Technion Board of Governor’s meeting in Israel. Viterbi is the creator of the Viterbi Algorithm, a mathematical formula used in…
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Fast Forward Tens of Thousands Celebrate Gay Pride in Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands of people participated in Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade, whose theme this year was the transgender community. Friday’s parade, Tel Aviv’s 17th, featured an appearance by Conchita, the transgender Austrian performer who last year won the Eurovision song festival, Army Radio reported. Some participants in the procession from Meir Garden’s Tel…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Soar in Canada to All-Time High
The yearly tally, released June 11, shows there were 1,627 reported anti-Semitic incidents in 2014, a 28 percent increase over the year before. The previous record was 1,345 incidents in 2012. Most cases last year – 84 percent or 1,370 incidents – involved harassment; there were 238 reported incidents of vandalism, or 15 percent of…
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Fast Forward Hungary Official Fired for ‘Vile Folk’ Rant Against Jews
A Hungarian county’s government fired a former department chief after he was seen making anti-Semitic sentiments in a recording that surfaced online. Imre Sisak, a former lawmaker for Hungary’s Socialist Party, MSZP, was fired Tuesday from his position as the head of a department within the local government of the northern country of Nógrád, ATV…
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