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Fast Forward Dutch Pro-ISIS Protesters Shout Anti-Semitic Slogans
Dozens of demonstrators shouted menacing slogans about Jews at a rally at one of the largest immigrant neighborhoods in The Netherlands. The demonstrators gathered Friday in the Schilderswijk, a neighborhood of approximately 33,000 residents in The Hague where half the population was born either in Turkey or Morocco, or to parents who were born in…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Finds 7 Tefillin Sets in Lost-Luggage Store
A Florida rabbi discovered seven pairs of tefillin at a store that sells the contents of unclaimed airline baggage. Rabbi Uri Pilichowski was on vacation with his family when he visited the store in Scottsboro, Ala., looking for cheap cell phones, the New York Daily News reported. The rabbi bought the religious items, worth hundreds…
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Fast Forward British SodaStream Repair Store Shut After 2 Years of Protests
An Israeli-owned store in England that sold replacement parts for SodaStream closed after two years of weekly boycott protests. The EcoStream shop in the coastal town of Brighton shut down last week, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The store sold the recyclable bottles for the SodaStream machines made in the factory in the West Bank settlement…
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Fast Forward Sweden Man Beaten for Hanging Israel Flag
A man who hung an Israeli flag outside his window in the Swedish city of Malmo was severely beaten for it and taken to the hospital, police said. Several unidentified men assaulted the 38-year-old man with metal bars after they hurled a stone at his window on Sunday evening, the Svenska Dagbladet daily reported Monday….
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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Dumps Partnership With Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman has dissolved the partnership between the political party that he heads, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Liberman made the announcement Monday, after days of disagreement between the two parties’ leaders over how to respond to the recent onslaught of rocket fire from Gaza. The two parties ran together…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Shops Resist Shabbat Closing Law
Many Tel Aviv grocery stores stayed open on the Sabbath even though Israel’s interior minister rejected an amendment to a municipal statute that would have allowed their opening. Municipal inspectors handed out fines on Saturday of slightly more than $200 to the businesses that remained open despite an Israeli law that makes it illegal to…
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Fast Forward California Jewish Campus Leader Blames Conflict Probe on ‘Pro-Israel’ Stance
A Jewish UCLA student nominated to serve as a regent for the statewide University of California system alleged that a conflict-of-interest probe against him is “an attack against me as a pro-Israel student.” Avi Oved released a statement before a July 1 emergency meeting via teleconference of the University of California Student Association, or UCSA,…
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Fast Forward Bnei Akiva Chief Noam Perel Faces Ouster for ‘300 Foreskins’ Revenge Call
The leaders of World Bnei Akiva said they will hold an emergency meeting on whether or not to remove the movement’s secretary general following his call for avenging the murder of three Israeli teens with blood. The governing body of the worldwide religious Zionist youth movement will hold the meeting in Israel within the next…
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