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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Thanks ‘My Jews’ at Emmys
Getty Images Comedian Sarah Silverman broke out a Jewish joke as she took home a trophy at the 2014 Emmy Awards. Silverman won the award for Best Writing for a Variety Show for her HBO comedy special “Sarah Silverman: We are Miracles.” Upon being announced as the winner, she dashed up onto the stage barefoot…
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Fast Forward Florida Gas Station Employee: Israeli Customer ‘No Longer Welcome’
An employee at a South Florida gas station allegedly told a customer that she was no longer welcome because she is an Israeli. The Jewish owner of the Shell station said he was looking into the allegations by the customer, a woman originally from Tel Aviv and a resident of Coral Springs for the past…
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Fast Forward Rocket From Lebanon Hits Northern Israel, Near Kiryat Shemona
At least one rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel two nights after a similar attack. The rocket fired late Monday night is reported to have landed in an open area near the Upper Galilee city of Kiryat Shemona, though the military has not confirmed the exact location. No injuries or damage were reported. Israel…
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Fast Forward U. of Illinois Defends Yanking Job Offer to Israel Critic
Officials from the University of Illinois publicly defended their decision to revoke a job offer to a scholar who had harshly criticized Israel on Twitter. Chancellor Phyllis Wise issued a statement on Friday explaining why the university had decided not to move forward with the hiring of Steven Salaita. On the same day, the president…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Approval Rating Plummets
A poll of Israelis showed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval rating has plunged to 38 percent in the last month from a high of 82 percent. Netanyahu’s approval rating was at its highwater mark in the days after Israel began its ground war in Gaza, according to the poll released Monday by Israel’s Channel…
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Fast Forward 40 Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel for Gaza War
Some 40 Jewish Holocaust survivors and more than 200 direct descendents of survivors signed a public letter condemning Israel’s military operation in Gaza. “As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine,” reads…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Protests Curbed at British Cosmetics Shop
Police have halted daily anti-Israel protests in front of a cosmetics store in Manchester, England, that sells Israeli cosmetics. The protests at Kedem have been held since the start of Israel’s military operation in Gaza early last month. Greater Manchester Police have ordered the Pro-Palestinian protesters and Israel-supporting counter-protesters to a “designated protest area” nearby,…
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Fast Forward Freed Journalist Released by Syria Militants Into Golan Heights
An American journalist held hostage in Syria by a group affiliated with al-Qaida was released to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Peter Theo Curtis, who wrote under the byline Theo Padnos, was released Sunday to United Nations peacekeeping forces on the Golan Heights, and reportedly was taken from there to Tel Aviv by U.S. diplomats. Curtis…
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