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Fast Forward Plans for Hundreds of East Jerusalem Apartments Get City Backing
A Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of apartments in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. On Monday, the city’s District Planning and Building Committee backed the building of 500 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The plan is reported to be in response to Palestinian violence in Jerusalem in recent months. The…
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Fast Forward World Jewish Congress Leader Warns Swiss Museum To Turn Down Gurlitt Collection
World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder warned a Swiss museum to turn down the collection of masterpieces bequeathed to it from the Cornelius Gurlitt collection. Lauder in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine published Saturday said the Kunstmuseum Bern would “trigger an avalanche of lawsuits” from potential claimants should it take the 20th century masterpieces….
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Fast Forward Syria’s State News Agency Launches Hebrew-Language Website
Syria’s official news agency, SANA, has launched a Hebrew-language website to reach Israeli readers. The website went live Sunday and joins existing pages in Arabic, French, Russian, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish. Khalid al-Hamad, the editor and translator of the Hebrew page, said in a statement that the new website will expose Israel’s involvement in the…
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Fast Forward Loyola U. Chicago Says Both Sides of Israel Debate Violated Rules
Loyola University Chicago has determined that the campus chapters of both Hillel and Students for Justice in Palestine violated university rules. A board of Loyola administrators ruled Friday that both organizations had broken the rules in a campus incident on Sept. 9, an announcement issued by the university said. In the incident, members of Students…
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Fast Forward North London Bus Rider Gets 16 Weeks for ‘Burn the Jews’ Rant
A passenger on a London bus who shouted anti-Semitic epithets was given a 16-week prison sentence. Ian Campbell, 42, of London pleaded guilty last month to a racially aggravated public order offense. He was sentenced in Magistrates Court in Hendon last week, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. He also was sentenced to four weeks…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Meets Jordan King Abdullah Over Temple Mount
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah II reportedly met secretly to discuss tension in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount. The meeting took place Saturday in Amman, the Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily Al-Jarida reported Monday citing “well-informed sources.” The two sides pledged to work together to ease the tensions in Jerusalem and the…
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Fast Forward Quarter of Russia’s 200 Top Billionaires Are Jews
A member of Russia’s Human Rights Council condemned a news website that said that nearly a quarter of Russia’s top billionaires are Jews. Nikolai Svanidze of the council – a Kremlin-affiliated body with no executive powers –- made the condemnation last week against Lenta.ru, which analyzed according to faith and ethnicity the Forbes Magazine list…
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Fast Forward Jewish Demonstrators Condemn Anti-Israel Protests in South Africa
Jewish protesters demonstrated outside a South African chain store to condemn anti-Israel protests that they say have turned anti-Semitic. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies umbrella body staged the demonstration Thursday outside the Sea Point store, part of the upscale national chain Woolworths, against the Congress of South African Students’ Western Cape branch. The…
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