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Fast Forward David Blatt Meets With Cleveland Cavaliers About Job
David Blatt, who recently resigned from his job as coach of the championship Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, is set to meet with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Blatt will interview Wednesday with the Cleveland Cavaliers for their vacant head coaching position, Yahoo Sports first reported Sunday citing what it called “league sources.” Blatt, 55, stepped…
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Fast Forward Ohio Community Rallies Behind Mother of Two Children Slain by Father
The Jewish community of Columbus, Ohio, has set up a fund to help the mother of two children slain in Israel by their father pay for their funerals. The bodies of Sara and Yishai Levy, 10 and 11, will be brought to Columbus from Israel for burial. The mother has been identified as Karen Levy,…
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Fast Forward Over 25,000 Gather at Western Wall To Pray for Kidnapped Teens
Thousands gathered at the Western Wall to pray for the safe return of three teens kidnapped in the West Bank. More than 25,000 people attended the Sunday evening service led by Chief Rabbi David Lau. Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef also was at the service, as were members of the Chief Rabbinate council and Knesset members….
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Fast Forward Abbas’ Wife Undergoes Surgery at Tel Aviv Hospital
The wife of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was released from a private hospital in Tel Aviv after having surgery there. Amina Abbas was sent home Sunday from the Assuta Medical Center following the procedure on her leg two days earlier. The surgery was performed amid a search for three Jewish teens purportedly kidnapped by…
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Fast Forward Kerry Points Finger at Hamas in Israelis’ Kidnapping
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for the immediate release of three kidnapped Israeli teens and noted the “many indications” pointing to Hamas’ involvement. In a statement released Sunday afternoon, more than 48 hours after the teens’ abduction, Kerry said he “strongly condemns” the kidnapping and reiterated that Hamas is a “terrorist organization.” Kerry…
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Fast Forward Parents of Kidnapped U.S-Israeli Teen: ‘Israel Will Bring You Back’
The parents of Naftali Frenkel, one of three teens kidnapped last week, assured their son that “Israel will bring you back.” “Naftali, Mom and Dad and your siblings love you to no end. Know that Israel is turning the world upside down to bring you home,” Rachel Frenkel said in a message to her son…
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Fast Forward Krakow’s New Chief Rabbi: All Non-Jews Dislike Jews
Several Polish rabbis and Jewish lay leaders criticized Krakow’s new chief rabbi for saying all non-Jews do not like Jews — a statement he was recorded making in an interview and then denied uttering. On Friday, six rabbis who belong to the Association of Rabbis in Poland said in a statement that they “firmly oppose”…
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Fast Forward Two Jews Make Ballot in Democratic Primary for Mass. Governor
Steve Grossman, the former chair of AIPAC and one-time head of the Democratic National Committee, is one of two Democratic Jewish candidates for Massachusetts governor on the primary ballot. Grossman, Massachusetts State Treasurer, and Don Berwick, a one-time pediatrician and former Medicare chief, qualified for the primary ballot in voting by party delegates at the…
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