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Fast Forward Women Read From Torah Scroll at Western Wall
Women of the Wall read from a full-size Torah scroll during the group’s monthly prayer service at the Western Wall. The Torah scroll, one of 100 available for public use on the men’s side of the Western Wall, was passed across the barrier between the men and women’s sections by male supporters of the 26-year-old…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Students Wear Anti-Semitic ‘Hit the Showers’ Shirts to Party
Responding to anti-Semitic T-shirts worn to a party by its high school students, a suburban New York town will hold what is being called “A Night of Unity.” Teens and their parents in Commack, on Long Island, were set to participate in the meeting on Sunday night planned by local Jewish leaders. Photos taken last…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbis Meet Pope on Anti-Semitism — 50 Years After Vatican II
A delegation of chief rabbis from Europe travelled to the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Francis about anti-Semitism. After meeting Monday with the delegation of 10 rabbis representing the Conference of European Rabbis, Pope Francis is scheduled to meet privately with the chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, who is a prominent promoter of…
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Fast Forward Hundreds March in Prague Against Anti-Semitism
Hundreds of demonstrators, many waving Israeli flags, marched in Prague to protest the rising levels of anti-Semitism in Europe. The 12th annual event, titled “A March of Good Will,” was held Sunday in the center of the Czech capital. The demonstration was organized by the Czech branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, a Christian…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmakers To Meet With Arab League in Cairo, Doha
Arab-Israeli lawmakers will meet in two Arab capitals with the Arab League, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said. Abbas made the statement on Saturday in Ramallah during his second meeting in less than a month with Ayman Odeh, the head of Israel’s Joint Arab List political coalition. The lawmakers would go to Cairo and Doha,…
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Fast Forward Poland Demands Apology from FBI Chief Over Holocaust Remarks
Poland’s Foreign Ministry protested remarks by FBI director James Comey in which he said the Poles were the Nazis’ accomplices during the Holocaust. “In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn’t do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Asks for More Time To Break Coalition Logjam
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Reuven Rivlin to request an extension in forming a ruling government coalition. The two leaders are scheduled to meet on Monday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, the President’s Office said in a statement issued Sunday afternoon. Under Israeli law, the head of the party who…
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Fast Forward Warsaw Marks 72 Years Since Ghetto Uprising
Hundreds of people commemorated the 72nd anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The main ceremony was held Sunday afternoon in Warsaw at the monument to the ghetto heroes in front of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Polish authorities and visiting Israeli youth joined Warsaw residents at the commemoration. Many…
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