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Fast Forward Rivlin Chides, Tasks Netanyahu to Form Government
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin seemed to chide Benjamin Netanyahu for the prime minister’s Election Day comments about Arab-Israeli voters before tasking him to form the next government. On Wednesday, Rivlin received the official results of last week’s national elections showing Netanyahu’s Likud with 30 Knesset seats to lead all parties. Shortly after receiving the results,…
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Fast Forward Prosecution Concludes in Murder Trial of Syracuse Jewish Community Leader
The prosecution concluded its arguments in the trial of a leader in the Syracuse Jewish community accused of murdering his wife. Prosecutors finished up their case against Dr. Robert Neulander in upstate New York’s Onondaga County Court on Tuesday. They contend that he killed his wife, Leslie, in their bedroom in DeWitt in 2012 and…
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Fast Forward Western Wall Cleaned for Passover
Workers at the Western Wall removed the notes placed in the cracks by worshippers in advance of Passover. The notes were removed Wednesday morning under the supervision of the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovich. They will be buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. The Western Wall Institute also receives tens…
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News Fund to Assist Parents With Day School Tuition Set up In Sassoon Children Name
A fund to assist parents who cannot afford to pay day school tuition has been established in memory of the seven children who died in a Shabbat house fire in Brooklyn. The Sassoon Children Memorial Fund will be administered by the New York-based Jewish Communal Fund. In addition, according to Yeshiva World News, a Torah…
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Fast Forward Israel Freezing Eastern Jerusalem Construction, Report Says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is freezing the construction of 1,500 housing units in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, an Israeli newspaper is reporting. The report of the construction freeze, by the popular Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week visited the suburban Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood, where as prime…
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Fast Forward Newly elected Arab MKS to Meet with Abbas
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Four members of Israel’s Joint Arab List elected to the Knesset met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. Ayman Odeh, the Arab-Israeli party’s leader, headed the delegation that visited the Muquata, the P.A.’s headquarters in Ramallah, on Tuesday evening, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported Wednesday. The others…
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Fast Forward Hillel Chief Eric Fingerhut to Meet with J Street Students
(JTA) — The president of the Jewish campus group Hillel agreed to a meeting with student activists from the liberal lobby J Street. Eric Fingerhut in a letter Monday to Benjy Cannon, the board president of J Street’s campus organization, J Street U, agreed to an on-the-record meeting between the students and members of Hillel…
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The Schmooze Kanye West and Kim Kardashian To Visit Israel
Getty Images Kanye West and Kim Kardashian reportedly are planning to visit Israel next month. The celebrity power couple booked rooms at Jerusalem’s high-end Waldorf Astoria Hotel for themselves and their entourage for April 12, the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot reported Wednesday. The hotel declined to comment to Yediot, which reported that everyone involved in…
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