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Fast Forward French Company Pulls Out of Jerusalem Cable Car Project
A French company pulled out of a Jerusalem cable car project, saying it wanted “to avoid any political interpretation.” SAFEGE, an engineering subsidiary of the French company Suez Environment, withdrew from the $31.7 million project after participating in two years of feasibility studies. The project was to build a cable car from downtown Jerusalem to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Fraternity Shut Down At University of Michigan
Sigma Alpha Mu, the historically Jewish fraternity known as Sammy, is shutting down its University of Michigan chapter in the aftermath of an incident that resulted in criminal charges against its president. The Ann Arbor chapter’s president, Joshua Kaplan, and Zachary Levin, both 19, are facing misdemeanor charges for allowing drug and alcohol use by…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocket Attacks Are Palestinian War Crimes, Amnesty International Says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Several rocket attacks launched at Israel from inside the Gaza Strip amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said. In a report released Wednesday, the human rights group also found that Palestinian rocket fire during the Hamas-Israel conflict last summer killed more civilians inside the Gaza Strip than inside Israel due to the…
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Fast Forward Staten Island Teen Charged with Hate Crime for Arabic Graffiti
A 15-year-old student was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for writing “death for Jewish religion” in Arabic on a poster at a Staten Island junior high school. The teen, from Staten Island, was charged on Tuesday with the hate crime and for making graffiti, and will be tried as a juvenile, ABC7…
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Fast Forward German Leftist Party Introduces Resolution To Recognize Palestinian State
A left-wing opposition party in the German parliament has introduced a resolution to recognize a Palestinian state, a position opposed by the current governing coalition. Die Linke, or The Left Party, submitted the petition on March 18, The Jerusalem Post reported. No date has yet been set for a vote by the Bundestag, and it…
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Fast Forward Harvey Weinstein Urges Jews To Be ‘Organized as Mafia’ Against Anti-Semitism
In a pugnacious speech to a gala dinner given by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein urged Jews to organize and fight back against anti-Semitism. The famously combative Weinstein, who was being presented with the organization’s Humanitarian Award at its National Tribute Dinner on Tuesday night, announced to the attendees that Jews “better…
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Fast Forward Israeli Lawmaker Calls on Netanyahu to Fire Ambassador to U.S.
An Israeli lawmaker called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire the country’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer. Firing Dermer would be a first step to repairing the U.S.-Israel relationship, Erel Margalit of the Zionist Union party said in a letter sent to Netanyahu on Wednesday. Dermer played a key role in organizing…
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Fast Forward Two Nazi-Looted Paintings Will Be Returned to Owner’s Heirs
Two paintings confiscated by the Nazis from their Jewish owners will be returned to their heirs in separate restitution deals. On Tuesday, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe and Art Recovery International announced that the oil painting “Portrait of a Gentleman” by El Greco had been returned to the heirs of Viennese industrialist Julius…
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