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Fast Forward Rabbi Barry Freundel Pleads Guilty to Peeping on 52 Women in Mikveh
Rabbi Barry Freundel, the former spiritual leader at a prominent Washington synagogue, has pleaded guilty to 52 counts of peeping on naked women in the mikveh, several news outlets reported. Freundel admitted using three different hidden cameras to capture different naked women in the ritual bath from different angles. “Guilty,” Freundel, a bearded figure wearing…
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News New York Tweaks Pre-K Regulations To Suit Orthodox
New York City is changing the rules of its universal prekindergarten program to allow for prayer and the scheduling preferences of Orthodox Jews. But the Orthodox Union says the changes don’t go far enough. The current rules require pre-K programs to provide at least six hours, 20 minutes of uninterrupted secular instruction per day to…
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Fast Forward 400,000 Argentines Pay Tribute to Alberto Nisman
More than 400,000 people in Buenos Aires braved a heavy rain to pay tribute to the late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman in a “silent march.” Other marches remembering Nisman on the one-month anniversary of his death were held Wednesday throughout Argentina and in cities throughout the world. The Metropolitan Police in Buenos Aires pegged…
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Fast Forward Iranian-American Group Denounces Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to Congress
The National Iranian American Council took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times slamming the planned speech to Congress by Israel’s prime minister. “Will Congress side with our president or a foreign leader?” reads the ad in Thursday’s edition. “President Obama is on the verge of a diplomatic victory that will prevent war…
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Fast Forward Northwestern Students Vote 24-22 for Israel Divestment
The Northwestern University student government passed a resolution calling on the university to divest from six corporations whose products are accused of being used by Israel to violate Palestinians’ human rights. The resolution was voted on by the Associated Student Government Senate early Thursday morning after more than five hours of debate, the student newspaper,…
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Fast Forward Norway Synagogue Street Closed for Good
The city of Oslo decided to permanently close to traffic the street leading to its main synagogue. Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community in Oslo and the deputy director of the Norwegian Center Against Racism, told JTA Thursday that the decision was made following the slaying on Feb. 15 of a guard at the…
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Fast Forward 69% of Americans Say Benjamin Netanyahu Speech Wrong — Want ‘Neutrality’ in Conflict
A CNN poll found that 63 percent of Americans believe it was wrong of congressional Republican leaders to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to speak without first notifying the president. The phone poll of 1,027 adults, conducted by ORC International, had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Netanyahu is scheduled to speak March 3 to…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Hackers Use Porn in Cyberattack
A group of hackers from Gaza used pornographic videos in a wide-scale cyberattack on several Israeli institutions and individuals. A report titled Operation Arid Viper: Bypassing the Iron Dome released Monday by the cyber security company Trend Micro detailed the hacking campaign carried out by the tech workers from Gaza. The report called the strategy…
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