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Fast Forward Do Jewish Settlements Use Palestinian Child Labor?
Farms in West Bank settlements are using Palestinian children as workers in contravention of international law, Human Rights Watch wrote in a new report. In its 74-page report, “Ripe for Abuse: Palestinian Child Labor in Israeli Agricultural Settlements in the West Bank,” Human Rights Watch asserted that Palestinians as young as 11 labor on the…
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Fast Forward Shots Fired at Nashville Synagogue
No one was injured when shots were fired outside a Nashville synagogue. The shots were fired outside the West End Synagogue on Monday morning, according to The Tennessean. Police identified at least one bullet hole between two windows at the front of the building. The shooting outside the 400-member Conservative congregation occurred hours before a…
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Fast Forward President Obama Pushes Iran Deal With Jewish Meetings
The Obama administration’s effort to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the Jewish community kicked up a notch with two meetings scheduled on the same day between the president and Jewish leaders. President Barack Obama will attend two White House meetings Monday with Jewish leaders on Monday — one with organizational leaders, and a second…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jews Object To Honor for Nazi Soldier
Dutch Jews protested the commemoration of a soldier who fought for Adolf Hitler on a monument bearing names of Holocaust victims. The Federative Jewish Netherlands, or FJN, called the inclusion of the soldier’s name to the monument in the town of Geffen, located 60 miles southeast of Amsterdam, “both shocking and cowardly,” the Eindhovens Dagblad…
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The Schmooze Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Jet Into Israel
TV star Kim Kardashian visits Armenia genocide memorial with her husband, Kanye West./Getty Images Reality television star Kim Kardashian and her husband, rapper Kanye West, landed in Israel for a private visit. The couple, and their daughter North West, 22 months, as well as Kardashian sister Khloe, landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday, following…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Launches Bid for White House — Has Vowed Better Ties to Israel
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her second bid for the White House. Clinton, the former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, entered the 2016 presidential race on Sunday afternoon with a two-minute video posted on her campaign website and on YouTube. She is seen as the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination. The…
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Fast Forward 10,000 Join Hungary March of the Living
Thousands came out for the the March of the Living in Budapest, where World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder reminded the Hungarian government to speak out against anti-Semitism. Lauder also denounced the far-right Jobbik party, the second largest in the country, as “extremist” on Sunday at the annual commemoration of the Holocaust in the Hungarian…
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Fast Forward Suspect Arrested in Murder of Israeli Man in Berlin
An Albanian man was arrested in connection with the murder of an Israeli man in Berlin. The Albanian man was arrested late Friday in the Czech Republic near the German border. Germany will seek to extradite him, the Associated Press reported. The Israeli man, who was identified as 22-year-old Yossi Damari days after his body…
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