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Fast Forward British Architects Backtrack on Israel Boycott
The leading association for British architects has rescinded a previous policy to suspend its Israeli counterparts from an international architects group. On Thursday, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) concluded that a motion to suspend the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) from the International Union of Architects (UIA) was “not in furtherance of…
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Fast Forward Jack Moline Leaves Jewish Democratic Council
Rabbi Jack Moline has left his post as director of the National Jewish Democratic Council after less than a year. Moline, a longtime rabbi in northern Virginia who was prominent in the Conservative movement and close to Obama administration figures, assumed the position at the beleaguered advocacy group in January of this year, and left…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Revenge Victim’s Cousin Helped Jewish Stab Victims
A cousin of the Palestinian teen who was burned alive by suspected Jewish extremists was among the first to help the wounded in a stabbing attack on a West Bank supermarket. Mahmoud Abu Khdeir, whose cousin Mohammed Abu Khdeir was killed this summer in the Jerusalem forest in apparent revenge for the murder of three…
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Fast Forward Killer Frenchman Gets 5 Years in Israel Hit-and-Run
A French Jew who in 2011 fled a fatal hit-and-run in Tel Aviv was sentenced in Paris to five years in jail. A passenger who also fled was sentenced to 15 months. Eric Robic, who confessed to driving at the time of the accident, fled Israel with passenger Claude Khayat shortly after hitting Lee Zeitouni,…
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Fast Forward Yehuda Glick Barred From Temple Mount
A Jerusalem court rejected an appeal by Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick allowing him to return to the holy site. On Thursday, the Jerusalem District Court upheld a restraining order against Glick, who is accused of pushing a Muslim woman at the Temple Mount, breaking her arm. Glick denies the allegation. “Taking into account the…
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Fast Forward New York Rabbis Arrested at Eric Garner Police Brutality Protest
Several prominent rabbis and the president of a national teachers union were arrested Thursday night while protesting police brutality. Rabbis Sharon Kleinbaum, Jill Jacobs, and Shai Held, along with Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, were taken into custody for blocking traffic to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict…
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Fast Forward 10-Year-Old Orthodox Girl Killed, Pregnant Mom Hurt Crossing Brooklyn Street
A 10-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed and her mother, nine months pregnant, was injured when they were hit by a minivan while crossing the street in the Borough Park neighborhood. The haredi Orthodox woman, Sarah Friedman, was taken to the hospital, where she delivered a healthy baby girl — her fifth child — on Tuesday…
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Fast Forward Top Editors Quit The New Republic
Franklin Foer, the editor in chief of The New Republic, and Leon Wieseltier, the magazine’s longtime literary editor, have resigned over disagreements with the publisher and new CEO. Foer told his colleagues in a memo Thursday that he was departing because Chris Hughes, The New Republic’s publisher and owner, and Guy Vidra, the CEO, have…
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