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Fast Forward U.N. ‘Jews in Israel’ Show To Open in Paris Over Arab Objections
An exhibition on the Jewish presence in the land of Israel that had been canceled due to pressure from Arab states will open at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. “Book, People, Land — The 3,500-Year Relationship of the Jewish People With the Holy Land,” a joint exhibition of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the cultural arm…
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Fast Forward Silicon Valley High School Senior Slips ‘Jew’ Slur Into Yearbook Photo
A Silicon Valley student admitted that he intentionally slipped an anti-Semitic slur into his high school’s yearbook. The student at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif., altered the name of an Israeli Jewish classmate in a team photo caption so the last three letters spelled the word “jew,” according to the San Jose Mercury…
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News Marine Le Pen Tweaks Dad for ‘Oven’ Pun About Jewish Singer Patrick Bruel
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, criticized her father, the party’s founder, for a pun about a French-Jewish singer seen as anti-Semitic. Jean-Marie Le Pen, currently a legislator, said in a video posted on the party website that “next time we will put him in an oven” when asked about…
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish Teens Wearing Kippahs Tear-Gassed in Paris Suburb
Two Jewish teenagers reported that they were sprayed with tear gas in an attack in Sarcelles, a northern suburb of Paris. The teens, who were wearing kippot, said they were attacked on Saturday night, according to a report posted Monday on the website of the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The attack,…
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Fast Forward Mercurial Donald Sterling Won’t Sell Team After All
Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, has decided not to support the sale of the team and will go forward with a federal lawsuit against the National Basketball Association. Sterling’s attorney on Monday announced that his client would not approve the $2 billion sale of the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer,…
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Fast Forward Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon Says No ‘Land for Peace’
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon inveighed against territorial compromise and blamed the Palestinian Authority for the recent failed peace talks in a wide-ranging policy address. Speaking on a broad spectrum of security challenges Tuesday at the Herzliya Conference, a policy conference at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, an Israeli university, Ya’alon said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is…
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Fast Forward Reform Leader Joins Push To Spare Pregnant Christian Convert From Death
A Reform Jewish leader joined an interfaith delegation in meeting with the Sudanese ambassador to protest the death sentence of a woman convicted of converting to Christianity. Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Washington DC-based Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, joined leaders of Christian and Muslim groups in meeting June 5 with Maowia Khalid,…
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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Chief Abruptly Resigns
The CEO of Jerusalem’s financially troubled Hadassah Medical Center has resigned. In his resignation letter Monday, Avigdor Kaplan said he objected to the recent agreement between Hadassah and the Israeli government calling for a state-appointed financial controller to oversee the hospital’s seven-year recovery plan, according to Globes, an Israeli business publication. Citing sources in the…
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