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Fast Forward ‘Dig’ Cancelled After One Season — Anti-Occupation Activists Claim Victory
The American television drama series “Dig,” which was filmed in Jerusalem, reportedly has been cancelled after one season. The USA Network decided to cancel the series after soft ratings, the Seriable website reported. The network had planned to base each new season around a new mystery while retaining some of the original characters, according to…
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Fast Forward Spain Puts Finishing Touches on Sephardic ‘Law of Return’
Spain’s Congress is poised to vote on final amendments that would make it possible for descendants of Sephardic Jews to apply for citizenship. The Congress of Deputies is scheduled to vote on the amendments on June 11, according to a statement published on the Congress’ website on Monday. Under the amendments, approved by the Spanish…
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Fast Forward Diplomat Tells AJC: Iran Nuclear Deal Will Make World Safer
The United States continues to insist on nuclear inspectors’ unfettered access as part of a nuclear deal with Iran, the deputy U.S. secretary of state told an American Jewish group. “We would not agree to a deal unless the IAEA is granted access to whatever Iranian sites are required to verify that Iran’s program is…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Ally Accused in Drugs-and-Hooker Scandal
Israeli lawmakers from all parties have called on a freshman Knesset lawmaker to resign in the wake of a news report that he used crystal meth and pimped prostitutes while managing a casino in Burgas, Bulgaria. Likud lawmaker Oren Hazan, 33,who serves as a deputy Knesset speaker, on Tuesday vehemently denied the claims made Monday…
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Fast Forward Shlomo Riskin Chided by Sephardic Chief Rabbi for ‘Innovations’
Israel’s chief Sephardi rabbi slammed Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the chief rabbi of Efrat, for his liberal “innovations.” Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef made the comments Saturday night during his weekly sermon, excerpts of which were posted on the haredi Orthodox news website Kikar Shabbat. “Every morning we say the blessing [being thankful that God] ‘didn’t make me…
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Fast Forward 44 Synagogue Members Sign Petition Against Sauna Rabbi
At least 44 members of a New York synagogue are calling for the resignation of their rabbi, whose custom of inviting young men to meet with him naked in a sauna has brought extensive media attention. In an email petition sent Sunday, members of the Riverdale Jewish Center, an Orthodox congregation in the Bronx, urged…
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Fast Forward French Prosecutors Charge 15 With Jihad Plot
Prosecutors in Paris presented their case against 15 defendants accused of planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets. The trial against the men, alleged members of the banned terrorist group Forsane Alizza, began Monday at the Correctional Tribunal of Paris and is expected to continue through June 23. They are accused of “participating…
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Fast Forward 15 Charged with Planning Jihadist Attacks on French Jews
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Paris presented their case against 15 defendants accused of planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets. The trial against the men, alleged members of the banned terrorist group Forsane Alizza, began Monday at the Correctional Tribunal of Paris and is expected to continue through June 23. They are accused…
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