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Fast Forward Greek Jews Slam Appointment of Far Right Health Minister
Makis Voridis, a longtime member of ultranationalist parties, was appointed health minister in Greece. Monday’s appointment, part of a widespread government reshuffle, was met with disappointment by members of the Greek Jewish community. “No Jewish person can be happy about the appointment of a man who was, until two years ago, a head of the…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Watch Brands Videotaped Israeli Killings ‘Apparent War Crime’
Human Rights Watch labeled the shooting deaths of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli soldiers during a West Bank protest an Israeli war crime. In a report titled “Killing of Children Apparent War Crime” published Monday, the human rights group said the soldiers used live ammunition during the May 15 demonstration in the town of Beitunia….
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Fast Forward Right To Die Law Approved by Israel Knesset Panel
A Knesset committee approved a physician-assisted suicide bill. The bill passed the Ministerial Committee on Legislation Sunday by a vote of 8 to 2. The vote was appealed Monday by Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party, who called the bill a “pill of death.” The bill allows a doctor to prescribe…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Banker Files $40M Suit Over BNP Paribas ‘Nazi’ Training Video
A former executive at BNP Paribas North America Inc. filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he was fired by the bank after complaining about a training video that featured Nazi imagery. Jean-Marc Orlando said in the suit filed Friday in Manhattan U.S. District Court that he was terminated as managing director in the bank’s fixed-income…
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Fast Forward Greek Jewish Lawmaker Says Golden Dawn Would Send Her to ‘Concentration Camp’
Greek lawmaker warned her colleagues that if the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party comes to power it would send her and her family to the crematoria because of her Jewish ancestry. Anna Asimakopoulou, the spokesperson for the ruling New Democracy party, made the comments last week during a stormy debate in Parliament on lifting immunity from…
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Fast Forward Lapid: Yesh Atid Will Topple Government That Attempts Annexation
Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said his centrist Yesh Atid party will topple Israel’s governing coalition should it move to annex any Israeli West Bank settlements. Lapid’s declaration came at the beginning of a barb-filled session at the annual Herzliya Conference, an Israeli policy conference hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, an Israeli university. At…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teens Escape Axe Attack Near Paris
Two Jewish teenagers told police they narrowly escaped an attack near Paris by a hatchet-wielding man and three others. The attack occurred late at night on June 4 in Romainville, a northeastern suburb of the French capital, according to a report by the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The teens, aged 14…
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Fast Forward Body of Missing Holocaust Scholar Robert Kuwalek Is Found in Ukraine
The body of Robert Kuwalek, one of Poland’s foremost Holocaust scholars, was found days after he had been reported missing in Ukraine. Kuwalek, 47, had been reported missing Thursday while on a visit to Lviv. His body was found over the weekend. The Polish consulate in Lviv confirmed his death, but no details about the…
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