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Fast Forward Israel Thanks India for Nepal Quake Rescue Help
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, for helping to rescue Israelis from Nepal. Netanyahu spoke to Modi on Thursday and delivered his condolences for loss of life in India in the April 25 earthquake, Israel Radio reported. More than 6,000 people died in the disaster, the vast majority in Nepal,…
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Fast Forward Suitcase of Letters From Jewish Man Who Fled Nazis Unearthed in Holland
A suitcase containing letters written by a Jewish man who fled the Nazis was discovered during renovations of a restaurant in The Hague. Israel Bachrach had fled the Netherlands city for Switzerland in September 1942 using false papers and the help of smugglers, the NL Times reported. After the war he returned to The Hague…
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Fast Forward Swedish Teens Organize After Neo-Nazi Intrusion
Members of a Swedish youth movement launched an anti-Fascist campaign at a high school where neo-Nazis interrupted a lecture by a Holocaust survivor. The campaign began last week at the Peders Skrivares high school in the western province of Halland, where on April 22 a group of skinheads demonstratively walked in on a talk given…
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Fast Forward Europe Urged To Keep Tight Rein on Aid to Palestinians
Citing alleged corruption by Palestinian recipients of aid money, the European Parliament’s Israel-relations czar urged more conditionality by E.U. donor states. Fulvio Martusciello, the chairman of the parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Israel, issued the call during a parliamentary debate Wednesday in Strasbourg on E.U. funding for the Middle East, his office wrote in a…
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Fast Forward Indiana Becomes Second State To Pass Anti-BDS Measure
Indiana’s state senate passed a nonbinding resolution opposing boycotts of Israel. Resolution 74, adopted earlier this week, makes Indiana’s legislature the second in the United States to pass a resolution condemning BDS, or the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign. Tennessee passed a similar appeal last month. The Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed the anti-BDS…
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Fast Forward Steven Salaita Gets Backing From Professors Group in Feud Over Israel Tweets
The University of Illinois violated the principles of academic freedom and tenure in rescinding the appointment of Steven Salaita over anti-Semitic tweets, a professors’ association found. The American Association of University Professors released a report this week with its findings. It will vote next month on whether to censure the university at its annual meeting,…
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Fast Forward New York Teen Makes Cancer Discovery — on Own Illness
At 12 years old, Elana Simon was diagnosed with fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare form of liver cancer that largely affects adolescents and young adults. “I didn’t know much about [fibrolamellar] and it was pretty scary,” said Simon, now 19. “But I was extremely fortunate to have an incredible surgeon.” After having her tumor removed,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Rescuers Pull Nepalese Woman From Rubble
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli NGO’s search-and-rescue team in Kathmandu led an international effort in locating and extracting a young Nepalese woman from the earthquake rubble. The IsraAid team on Thursday afternoon guided the rescue of Krishna Devi Khadka, who was stuck in a hotel for five days in an air pocket covered by a…
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