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Fast Forward South Africa Minister Barred by Israel From Visiting West Bank
The Israeli government denied a South African cabinet minister a visa to visit the Palestinian territories. Blade Nzimande, South Africa’s minister of higher education, sought the visa to conduct a six-day working visit. According to Eyewitness News, the South African department of higher education says Israel’s refusal owes to the minister’s “public utterances against the…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back at Gaza After Hamas Fires Rocket
Israel’s air force struck a Hamas forward lookout post in response to the firing of a rocket from Gaza. The strike Friday morning on a post just south of the Erez Crossing in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip resulted in no casualties, Army Radio reported, citing Palestinian media. The rocket that exploded inside…
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Fast Forward Reform Jews Want ‘Genocide’ Used for Armenian Killings
The Union for Reform Judaism urged President Barack Obama to use the word “genocide” in describing the murder of 1.5 million Armenians. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the union’s president, made the call in an open letter he sent to Obama on Thursday, ahead of the centennial anniversary of what is widely known as the Armenian Genocide….
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Fast Forward Jeb Bush at Ramaz: Iran Deal Is ‘Very Naive’
(JTA) — Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, criticized the Iran nuclear framework agreement as “very naive” during a visit to a Manhattan Jewish day school. Bush made the remark on Thursday in a closed-door question-and-answer session with high school students at the Ramaz Upper School, the Washington Free Beacon reported. He said the…
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Fast Forward Portuguese Jews Gather on Remote Island To Rededicate Oldest Synagogue
Dozens of Portuguese Jews were set to convene on an island in the Atlantic Ocean for the rededication of the country’s oldest intact synagogue. Thursday’s rededication ceremony at the Sahar Hassamain synagogue on Sao Miguel, located 900 miles west of Lisbon, follows renovations that began last year. The repairs cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Praises Gaza War ‘Spirit’ on Israel Independence Day
In his Independence Day address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised troops’ fighting spirit in Gaza. Netanyahu’s praises came in the Hebrew-language version of a video released by his office at the start of Israel’s 67th Independence Day, which this year falls on April 23. The English-language version contains no such reference but celebrates the…
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Fast Forward President Obama Won’t Meet With Benjamin Netanyahu Until After Iran Nuclear Deal
President Barack Obama will not meet Israel’s prime minister before the June 30 deadline for the Iranian nuclear talks, Obama reportedly said. Obama told Jewish leaders last week that a face-to-face meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu would probably end with Netanyahu publicly complaining about the president’s policies on Iran, unnamed sources familiar with the meeting told…
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Fast Forward Jews Overwhelmingly Back Gay Marriage: Poll
Jews are overwhelmingly supportive of same-sex marriage, with nearly 3 out of 4 backing it, according to a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. Of the 724 Jews surveyed, 47 percent said they strongly favor allowing same-sex couples to marry legally and 30 percent said they favor it. Nine percent of respondents said…
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