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Fast Forward Polish President Defends Holocaust Massacre Apology
In an election debate, Poland’s president defended his acknowledgment of the complicity of some his countrymen in the Holocaust. Bronislaw Komorowski offered his defense during a televised debate earlier this week against Andrzej Duda, a conservative candidate who criticized the president’s apologies in recent years for the massacre that Polish farmers perpetrated against their Jewish…
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Fast Forward Ancient 2,000-Year-Old Aqueduct Unearthed in Jerusalem
A section of Jerusalem’s lower aqueduct, which brought water to the city more than 2,000 years ago, was uncovered during sewer work. The aqueduct, which was excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority, was found in the Umm Tuba neighborhood, near Har Homa. It begins near Solomon’s Pools south of Bethlehem and continues for about 13…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Criticism of Israel Comes WIth Job
Open disagreement with Israel on some of its policies is a necessary component of the U.S. defense of Israel in the international community, President Barack Obama said. Obama, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg posted Thursday on The Atlantic’s website, singled out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Election Day appeal in March to his followers…
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Fast Forward 500 California Alumni Blast Campus Anti-Semitism
More than 500 alumni of the University of California called on the system’s president and Board of Regents to address the “rising tide of anti-Jewish bigotry at the UC.” The alumni wrote in the open letter published Wednesday in the Daily Bruin, the student newspaper of the University of California, Los Angeles, that they are…
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Fast Forward Israel Ordered to Pay Iran $1.1B for Pre-Islamic Revolution Pipeline
A Swiss court has ordered Israel to pay $1.1 billion to Iran over a pre-Islamic Revolution oil debt. The debt harkens back to a 1968 agreement in which the government-controlled National Iranian Oil Company shipped oil through Israeli ports and sold crude oil to Israel. Under the agreement, Israel was allowed three months after delivery…
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Fast Forward 10-Year-Old Palestinian Shot in Face With Rubber Bullet
A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was shot in the face with a foam bullet during clashes between Israel’s Border Police and young Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem. Palestinians in the Shuafat refugee camp were throwing rocks at the officers, who were guarding maintenance workers. The officers responded with crowd control measures, including shooting foam-covered bullets. It is…
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Fast Forward Philadelphia Day School Offers Buyouts to Half Its Teachers
A suburban Philadelphia Jewish day school that closed down its teachers union has offered early retirement packages to more than half its faculty members. The Perelman Jewish Day School, a K-5 school affiliated with the Conservative movement’s Schechter Network, offered buyouts to 27 of its approximately 50 teachers, the Jewish Exponent reported. Thirteen teachers accepted…
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Fast Forward Day-Old Israeli Twin Baby of Surrogate Mom Dies in Nepal
An Israeli baby born to a surrogate mother in a Nepal field hospital died less than a day after his birth. The baby boy, a twin, died Wednesday night in Kathmandu in a tent in a field hospital set up following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 that has killed thousands. Following the earthquake,…
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