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Fast Forward CIA Offers Spooks Tips for Israel Airport Screening
The Central Intelligence Agency offers guidelines for its operatives using false identities to get through a “secondary screening” at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport, according to a secret CIA document uploaded to WikiLeaks. The document, which is titled “CIA Assessment on Surviving Secondary Screening at Airports While Maintaining Cover” and dated September 2011, was uploaded…
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Fast Forward Sister of Slain Lone Soldier Moves to Israel
The sister of American-Israeli lone soldier Max Steinberg, who was killed during this summer’s Gaza operation, has moved to Israel. Paige Steinberg, 21, is attending college in Israel at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and living with roommates in the city, Ynet reported. “I never planned on studying and living in Israel, but I wanted to…
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Fast Forward 61 Theater Chiefs Slam Firing of Theater J Director Ari Roth
Sixty-one artistic directors of U.S. theater companies denounced the DC Jewish Community Center’s firing of Ari Roth, the artistic director of its Theater J who staged numerous works critical of Israel. An open letter issued Monday said “it is absolutely clear that Roth was fired because of the content of the work he has so…
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Fast Forward Jewish Extremists Get 2-1/2 Years for ‘Price Tag’ Attack
Two Jewish settlers were sentenced to 30 months in prison for setting several Palestinian cars alight in a West Bank village. The sentence announced Sunday was the result of a plea bargain with the Lod District Court, which determined that the arson attack in November 2013 in the Palestinian village of Farata was a “price…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Hasidic Lawmaker Aron Wieder Gets ‘ISIS’ Threat Letter
Federal authorities are investigating a threatening photo sent to a Hasidic lawmaker in suburban New York. Aron Wieder, a Democrat who is majority leader of the Rockland County Legislature, received a photo last week in the mail showing his head pasted on the body of a person beheaded by the Islamic State jihadist group. The…
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Fast Forward Planeload of Ukraine Jews Arrives in Israel
Some 226 immigrants from Ukraine, among then dozens of families fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine, landed in Israel. The immigrants who arrived on Monday, the seventh day of Hanukkah, are the first in an expected group of over 400 Ukrainians who will arrive before the end of the year. A second flight is scheduled to…
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The Schmooze 754 Dreidels Spin to Record
A group of adults and children in Tel Aviv set a new world record for dreidel spinning. Some 754 dreidels spun simultaneously for 10 seconds in a row on Sunday at the Sarona Market complex in Tel Aviv. Among those taking part in the record-breaking attempt, monitored by officials from Guinness World Records, was Israeli…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel Gets Degree From Polish University
Nobel laureate and Holocaust memoirist Elie Wiesel will receive an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. The university Senate voted unanimously last week to honor Wiesel for his involvement in the fight for the defense of human dignity; for efforts to deepen public understanding of the crimes of the…
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