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Fast Forward Sinead O’Connor Hopes To Pull Out of Israel Gig
Sinead O’Connor said she will try to back out of a scheduled performance in Israel because she was unaware that she had been asked to boycott by pro-Palestinian groups. “I was not informed by my booking agent, and was unaware myself, that a boycott of Israel had been requested by the Palestinian people,” O’Connor wrote…
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Fast Forward Arab Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi Says Kidnappers ‘Not Terrorists’
An Arab-Israeli Knesset member said in an interview that the kidnappers of three Israeli teens are not terrorists. “They are people that cannot see any way to change their reality, and they are forced to use these means until Israeli society wises up a bit and sees and feels the suffering of the other,” Hanin…
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Fast Forward Kidnapped Teens’ Families Meet for First Time
The families of the three kidnapped Israeli teens met together for the first time. The parents and other family members of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel met Tuesday morning at the Frenkel’s home in Nof Ayalon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the families by phone during their meeting. “We are doing…
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Fast Forward Germany and Israel Will Cooperate on Nazi Looted Art
Germany and Israel agreed to cooperate on finding the heirs to art that was stolen or looted from Jews during the Nazi era. German Minister of Culture Monika Grutters and her Israeli counterpart, Limor Livnat, signed an agreement on Sunday in Jerusalem on the terms of their cooperation aimed at correcting decades of injustice, the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem Issues West Bank Travel Advisory
American citizens should take precautions and avoid demonstrations during travel in the West Bank, the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem warned. The Security Message for U.S. Citizens was emailed Monday to American citizens living in Israel who are registered with the consulate. It follows the increased security presence and operations by Israeli and Palestinian forces throughout…
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Fast Forward Nachman Sudak, Chabad’s Emissary in Britain, Dies at 78
Rabbi Nachman Sudak, the chief emissary for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the United Kingdom, has died. Sudak died Sunday in London; he was 78. Directed personally by the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to move to London in 1959, Sudak lived there for the rest of his life, according to Chabad.org, developing and overseeing a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Security Group Holds Global Summit
The security arm of U.S. Jewish groups held its first International Security Summit in response to recent attacks on Jewish communities. The Secure Community Network, or SCN, convened the convocation of more than 80 senior government and law enforcement officials, homeland security and community leaders in New York last week in the wake of violent…
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Fast Forward 2 Men Point ‘Gun’ at Police Guarding Paris Synagogue
Two men pointed what looked like firearms at police stationed outside a Paris synagogue in part of a weekend string of anti-Semitic incidents in and near the French capital. The incident involving the police officers occurred on June 14 outside the synagogue on Julien Lacroix Street in eastern Paris’ 20th arrondissement, according to a report…
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