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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Snubbed by Israeli Leaders on Upcoming Trip
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected invitations to meet with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The invitations reportedly were declined after consulting with the Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council, Haaretz reported Monday. Carter, who reportedly will visit Israel in the coming weeks, has planned meetings with Israeli and Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Defends Border Fence — by Pointing to Migrants Who Died at Sea
In the wake of the drowning death of hundreds of migrants from Libya trying to reach Italy, an Israeli government minister justified his country’s building of a fence to keep out migrants. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz in a post Monday on his Facebook page, called the deaths a “tragedy that shocks all humanity,” then added,…
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Fast Forward Ex-Nazi Faces Trial in 300,000 Deaths at Auschwitz
A former Waffen-SS member is going on trial, charged as an accomplice in the murder of 300,000 victims at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Oskar Groening, 93, will be tried at the District Court of Luneburg, near his hometown in Germany. The trial will begin on Tuesday. Groening has admitted to being a guard at Auschwitz…
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Fast Forward One in 4 Israeli Voters Made Decision at Last Minute
More than one-quarter of Israeli voters did not decide how they would vote until the final days of the campaign, according to a new survey. The survey, commissioned by the New Majority, a group that sought to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, found that 15 percent of voters made their decision on the way to…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Hospitalized — Said To Be Fine
Shimon Peres has been hospitalized after complaining of feeling unwell. The former Israeli president, 91, had been scheduled to speak at an event for KamaTech, an Israeli start-up, the London Jewish Chronicle reported, citing a Twitter post from Israeli journalist Niv Elis. According to Elis’ tweet, Peres on Monday “had to go to hospital for…
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Fast Forward Biden Tells Iran Not To Expect Instant Sanctions Relief
An Iran nuclear deal will not include substantial sanctions relief at the front end, Vice President Joe Biden said. “If at the front end they expect there to be total sanction relief or significant sanction relief, there will be no deal,” Biden said in an address in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday to a Democratic political…
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Fast Forward Australia Kosher Stamp Dropped Amid Halal Questions
A number of companies in Australia have removed kosher certification symbols from their packaging due to pushback over halal certification. Rumors that money raised from halal certification helps fund terrorism are spurring the pushback, the general manager of the Kosher Australia certification, Yankel Wajsbort, told the Australian Jewish Times, and companies have called the Victorian-based…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Modern Orthodox Scholar, Dies at 81
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a leader of the Israeli national-religious movement and a prominent Modern Orthodox scholar, has died. Lichtenstein, a head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva located in the Gush Etzion bloc of the West Bank, died Monday morning at the age of 81. The rabbi, who received a PhD in English literature from Harvard…
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