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Fast Forward 3 Charged With Plotting Temple Mount Attack
Three Palestinian men were indicted for planning to attack activist Yehuda Glick and right-wing lawmaker Moshe Feiglin during a visit to the Temple Mount. The men, ages 18 to 21 from eastern Jerusalem, were charged over the weekend with conspiracy to injure a person using weapons and with nationalistic motivation. The attack was to occur…
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Fast Forward Knesset Bill Funds Druze and Circassian Communities
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will submit a plan to the Knesset for significant investments in the Arab Druze and Muslim Circassian communities. The plan will include funds for education, infrastructure, and employment “in order to reduce the existing disparities,” Netanyahu announced Saturday night on his Facebook page, an on Sunday in an official announcement…
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Fast Forward Far Right Concert Falls Flat in Milan
A far-right rally and concert went ahead in Milan despite protests by the Milan Jewish community and other groups. But reports said the event Saturday drew far fewer people than anticipated. No incidents were reported. The Italian media said about 300 skinheads and other far-right militants attended Hammerfest 2014, held in a privately owned outbuilding…
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Fast Forward Australia Capital Gets First Rabbi
The Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth officiated at the inauguration of the first rabbi officially appointed to lead the Jewish community in Australia’s capital. Rabbi Efraim Mirvis was present last week as Rabbi Alon Meltzer became the first rabbi to lead the Australian Capital Territory’s National Jewish Memorial Center. Meltzer, a 26-year-old from New Zealand,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Fighting for Kurds Captured by ISIS
A Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman who joined Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State reportedly has been taken captive by ISIS. The capture of Gillian Rosenberg and several other female fighters has been reported on blogs and Islamist websites, Israeli media is reporting. Rosenberg, 31, reportedly was captured by jihadists near the Syrian city…
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Fast Forward App Puts Anne Frank Story on Smartphone
A publisher in Amsterdam released the first smartphone application to contain Anne Frank’s diary in its original language. Uitgeverij Prometheus unveiled the Dutch-language application, or app, earlier this month at Theater Amsterdam — a 1,100-seat auditorium which was built in the Dutch capital earlier this year for the show “Anne,” about the Jewish teenage diarist’s…
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Fast Forward Is Romanian Mayor’s Hitler Hairdo a Hate Crime?
The Hitler hairdo of a Romanian mayor, who in 2009 was photographed wearing a Nazi uniform, prompted a Jewish watchdog group to sue him for allegedly inciting hatred. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, or MCA Romania, filed a criminal complaint last week against Radu Mazare, the mayor of the seaside resort town of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Call for Civil Discussion On Race After Ferguson Decision
Jewish groups called for civil and serious discussion about race, democracy and justice in the wake of the grand jury’s decision in fatal shooting of an unarmed African American teen in Ferguson, Mo. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs in a statement issued on Wednesday affirmed its support for peaceful demonstration and called for “locally…
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