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Fast Forward Slain Journalist Steven Sotloff Gets Danny Pearl Award
Slain conflict journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were posthumously honored with an award in memory of murdered Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl. The ADL Daniel Pearl Award was presented to the parents of Foley and Sotloff Friday during the organization’s 2015 National Executive Committee Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Pearl was a Wall Street Journal…
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Fast Forward Druze IDF Soldier Beaten for Speaking Arabic
A Druze man serving in the Israel Defense Forces, was attacked outside a night club after speaking Arabic. Razzi Houseysa, 19, a combat soldier in the IDF’s Golani Brigade, said he was attacked on Friday outside a nightclub on Kibbutz Yagur, in northern Israel about 5 miles southeast of Haifa. Houseysa, a resident of the…
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Fast Forward New York Woman Sues Kuwait Airlines Over Ban on Israeli Passengers
An Israeli woman who has lived in the United States for the last 15 years was barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight in New York because of her Israeli citizenship. Iris Eliazarov, 26, who came to the United States when she was 11 and has a Green Card, was barred from the Nov. 1…
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Fast Forward Dutch Shipping Giant Dumps Nazi Boat Name
A Dutch ship that sparked controversy because it was named after a Nazi will have its name changed, its owner said. The change was announced on Friday by Allseas, the shipping giant that built and named the Pieter Schelte for a prominent Nazi industrialist and Waffen-SS officer. “As a result of the widespread reactions which…
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Fast Forward Israeli Solar Firm Launches Power Field at Rwanda Youth Village
The first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa, built on land belonging to a Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda, was launched. The nearly $24 million project was financed and constructed by Gigawatt Global. Yosef Abramowitz, Gigawatt president, also is CEO of Energiya Global Capital, Gigawatt’s Israeli affiliate, which provided seed money and strategic assistance…
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Fast Forward British TV Station Uses Gaza Backdrop in Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Interview on Holocaust
The British broadcaster Sky News apologized for showing images of the Gaza conflict during an interview about the Holocaust with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. The apology over the Jan. 27 broadcast came in a letter sent by Peter Lowe, Sky News’ managing editor, to a viewer who sent Sky News a letter of complaint…
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Fast Forward Morocco Touts Effort To Preserve Jewish Cemeteries
Moroccan Jews touted their country’s efforts to preserve Jewish cemeteries at the opening of an exhibition on Morocco in Paris. The preservation efforts, launched in 2010, have restored at least 167 Jewish burial sites, and were celebrated during the Feb. 1 opening of the “Contemporary Morocco” exhibition at the French capital’s Arab World Institute, the…
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Fast Forward Israel President Reuven Rivlin Floats Plan for New ‘Arab City’
Israeli President Reuben Rivlin called for the building of a new city to accommodate Israel’s growing Arab minority. Rivlin met Thursday at his residence with 50 Arab local council heads and mayors and discussed integration and development, according to his office. Rivlin called for the creation of a new Arab city, and for schools to…
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