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Fast Forward Lawmaker Asks Pakistan To Protect Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish congressman wrote Pakistan’s ambassador asking for assurances that no harm would come to Karachi’s Jewish cemetery. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) in his letter sent this week referred to a December report in The Guardian that described efforts by some groups to take over the land, encompassing some 300 graves. “It is my hope…
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News $50M Holocaust Memorial Planned for London
Britain will build a new Holocaust memorial in the center of London with the help of $50 million in government funds. The announcement of the future memorial, which will also be home to an education center, was made on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. “We stand in…
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Fast Forward Jack Lew Meets With French Jewish Leaders
The Jews of France are committed to remaining in their country, U.S. Treasury secretary Jacob Lew said after meeting with the community’s leadership in Paris. “What I heard was a real desire to stay in France and have France be a place where they felt safe,” Lew told reporters from the Jewish media in a…
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Fast Forward ‘Hate Group’ Funds Republican Trip to Israel
An upcoming Republican National Committee trip to Israel is being fully funded by a hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American civil rights organization. The trip, which will take 60 RNC members to Israel for nine days beginning Saturday, is being paid for by a subsidiary of the American Family Association,…
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Fast Forward 62% of Religious Zionists Say Jewish Majority More Important Than Ruling West Bank
Three-fifths of Israeli religious Zionists prioritize safeguarding Israel’s Jewish majority over keeping control of the West Bank. According to a survey of religious Zionists conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute think tank, 62 percent believe maintaining Israel’s Jewish majority is more important than controlling the “entire Land of Israel from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.”…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Bibi Has No Argument on Iran Nuclear Diplomacy
President Barack Obama said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not offered “any rebuttal” to his administration’s argument for the success of Iran nuclear talks. “I don’t think there’s been any rebuttal of my argument,” Obama told Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s New Day in an interview to be broadcast Sunday. Zakaria had asked Obama about…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Faces Trial for Hate Rant
French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala will stand trial for saying that a Jewish journalist should have died “in the gas chambers.” Known as Dieudonné, the comedian was filmed with a hidden camera in 2013 making the comment about French journalist Patrick Cohen, according to the New York Times. The footage, which was broadcast on French…
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Fast Forward Rome Jewish Leader Detained After Auschwitz Visit
The president of the Jewish community of Rome and a well-known Italian journalist were detained overnight by Polish police after recording an interview at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Roman Jewish Communal President Riccardo Pacifici and Italian journalist David Parenzo conducted the interview for an Italian television station Tuesday, following a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary…
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