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Fast Forward #BringBackOurBoys Billboard Comes to Times Square
An advertisement calling for the return of three kidnapped Israeli teens is running on a digital billboard in Times Square. “On June 12th, 2014, three teenage boys were kidnapped in Israel, one of them an American citizen,” reads the 40-foot-by-40-foot ad purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side, an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan….
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Fast Forward 62% of Israelis Care About Diaspora
Substantial majorities of Israeli Jews believe they share a fate with Diaspora Jews and that the Israeli government should take into account how its decisions affect the Diaspora. The poll, released Wednesday and commissioned by the Jewish Media Summit underway in Jerusalem, found that 62 percent of respondents “believe that Jews in Israel and the…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Wife Calls for Bowe Bergdahl-Style Prisoner Swap
The wife of Alan Gross visited her husband in a Cuban prison, then likened his plight to an American prisoner of war traded for five Taliban members. “If we can trade five members of the Taliban to bring home one American soldier, surely we can figure out a path forward to bring home one American…
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee Visits SodaStream Factory and Meets With Kidnapped Teens’ Parents
Former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called on President Obama to halt dialogue with Hamas, which is believed to be responsible for the abduction of three Israeli teens. Huckabee, the ex-Republican governor of Arkansas, arrived in Israel on Sunday for a weeklong visit to focus attention on the kidnappings. He has visited Israel more than…
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Fast Forward Philadelphia Synagogue Hit With Swastikas
A Conservative synagogue in northeast Philadelphia was targeted with anti-Semitic vandalism. Members of the Congregations of Ner Zedek discovered two large swastikas spray painted on the synagogue building on Monday when they arrived for daily morning prayers, according to the Jewish Exponent. In recent weeks a rock was thrown through a glass panel on a…
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Fast Forward Sephardic Leader Says No to Women in College
The new spiritual leader of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas movement said women should not pursue academic studies. Rabbi Shalom Cohen said in an official letter published Monday on the haredi Orthodox website Kikar HaShabbat that women’s participation in academic pursuits, including in haredi colleges, is a violation of Jewish law. It was Cohen’s first official…
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Fast Forward Israel Downgrading Military Operation to Recover Kidnapped Teens
Israel’s Cabinet agreed to reduce the presence of the country’s military in the West Bank and limit its incursions into Palestinian areas 12 days after the kidnapping of three Israeli teens. The operation to locate and return the teens, called Operation Brother’s Keeper, now will focus more on intelligence gathering, Haaretz reported. “A large part…
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Fast Forward Frank Dimant Retires From Bnai Brith Canada
Frank Dimant, the longtime head of B’nai Brith Canada who is well known in the country’s Jewish community, is stepping down. Dimant, 68, will retire as CEO of the organization on Dec. 31 after 36 years as its leader, B’nai Brith announced in its newspaper, the Jewish Tribune. “Canada’s longest-serving and highest profile Canadian Jewish…
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