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Fast Forward Turkey’s President: ‘Jewish Capital’ Behind New York Times
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said at a campaign rally that “Jewish capital” was behind The New York Times. Erdogan made his remarks a day before Turks voted on Sunday. Polls predicted victory for Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, though with a much smaller margin than in 2011. On Saturday, Erdogan…
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Fast Forward Adelson, Saban ‘On Same Page’ in Fighting BDS
U.S. billionaires Sheldon Adelson, a GOP supporter, and Haim Saban, who funds Democratic candidates, told an Israeli television station that “when it comes to Israel, we are absolutely on the same page.” Adelson hosted representatives of some 50 Jewish and pro-Israel organizations at his Venetian casino hotel in Las Vegas to create a strategy for…
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Fast Forward Orange CEO Says Company ‘in Israel To Stay’
The chairman of the French telecom company Orange reversed his comments about leaving Israel, saying the company “is in Israel to stay.” Stephane Richard in an interview Saturday with the French news agency AFP denied that his company’s decision to end a brand-licensing agreement with the Israeli firm Partner was a message that it was…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Condemns Renewed Rocket Fire On Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned a rocket attack from Gaza on Israel, the third attack in two weeks. “Israel holds Hamas responsible for all firing from the Gaza Strip at our territory. I have not heard anyone in the international community condemn this firing; neither has U.N. said a word. It will be interesting…
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Fast Forward Spain Denies Flood of Turkish Jewish Citizenship Applications
Spain’s embassy in Ankara disputed a New York Times article claiming that thousands of Turkish Jews have applied for Spanish citizenship amid growing concern about anti-Semitism. The May 26 Times article speaks of “thousands of Sephardic Jews in Turkey who trace their ancestry to Spain and are now applying for Spanish citizenship in anticipation of…
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Fast Forward Welcome to Yasser Arafat Street in French Town
The decision to name the street after Arafat, founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who died in 2004, was approved Tuesday by a municipal committee of Seyne-sur-mer near Nice, the French news agency AFP reported. The report said that the naming, when it happens, will be the first time a street is named after the…
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Fast Forward JCC CFO Pleads Guilty to $400K Scam
Two former staff members at San Diego’s Jewish community center pleaded guilty to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the institution in two separate schemes. Nancy Johnson, the JCC’s chief financial officer from 1991 to 2014, and Tamara Azizov, an accounts payable clerk from 1989 to 2014, both pleaded guilty Thursday in San Diego…
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Fast Forward Liberal Group Sweeps To Win in World Zionist Vote
The Reform movement won a plurality of votes for American representation in the 37th World Zionist Congress. Of the 145 seats allocated to Americans in the 500-representative body, approximately 70 percent went to religious denominations: Fifty-six seats went to the Reform movement’s ARZA faction, 25 went to the Conservative movement’s Mercaz faction and 24 to…
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