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Fast Forward Vassar Palestinian Group Reviewed After Posting Nazi Cartoon Online
The Vassar College chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-Palestinian student group, is being reviewed by the college administration after the group posted a Nazi propaganda cartoon on a social media site. The post on the Vassar SJP Tumblr page, which has since been removed, showed a Nazi propaganda poster depicting a many-armed…
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Fast Forward Local Chaos and Crime Drive Aliyah Numbers From Ukraine
Chaos and criminal activity in eastern Ukraine are causing anxiety and increased emigration by Ukrainian Jews, leaders of that community said. “There is increase in emigration by Jews from Ukraine with 300 people immigrating to Israel in March alone, but this is not the result of any anti-Semitism but of anxiety and fear from criminal…
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Fast Forward West Bank Settlements Could Grow 50% by 2019
The number of Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank could grow by as much as 50 percent by 2019, Israel’s ultra-nationalist construction minister said on Friday. Palestinians want the West Bank as part of their future state and blamed settlement expansions for the breakdown last month of U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel – a…
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Fast Forward England Grants Livni Immunity From War Crimes Prosecution
Britain granted Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni diplomatic immunity from war crimes prosecution during a visit to London. The British government gave Livni the temporary immunity amid attempts by lawyers representing pro-Palestinian groups seeking her arrest for alleged breaches of international law, The Guardian reported Tuesday. Livni, who also heads the Israeli team in Israeli-Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Argentine Court Declares Pact With Iran Unconstitutional
Federal judges in Argentina declared unconstitutional the government’s cooperation with Iran on the investigation of the 1994 explosion of the AMIA Jewish community building. Court Nr. 1 of the Federal Chamber made the ruling after deliberations on a petition for an injunction filed by representatives of the Jewish community who argued against cooperating with Iran…
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Fast Forward Canada To Extradite Suspected Synagogue Arsonist to France
A Canadian court upheld a ruling ordering the extradition of an Ottawa professor to France, where he is suspected of taking part in a 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four people. In a decision Thursday, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s 2011 finding that Hassan Diab should be handed…
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Fast Forward Obama Extends Schwartz’s Stint on International Religious Freedom Commission
President Obama extended the appointment of Eric Schwartz, a dean at the University of Minnesota, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Schwartz, who is on the boards of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, was among several appointees and nominees the White…
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Fast Forward Kutsher’s, Fabled Borscht Belt Resort, Set To Be Demolished Later This Month
Kutsher’s, the fabled Catskills resort hotel, is set to be demolished later this month. The 1,300-acre property near Monticello, N.Y., was sold last year for $8.18 million to Veria Lifestyle Inc., which plans to turn it into a health and wellness resort. Pre-demolition work already has begun with the clearing of trees and brush, and…
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