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Fast Forward Winnepeg College Chief Shunned by Shul for Allowing Israel Apartheid Week
Winnipeg’s leading synagogue withdrew an invitation for the University of Manitoba’s president to address its Yom Hashoah interfaith service following anti-Israel events on the university campus, the National Post reported. David Barnard, the university president, allowed Israel Apartheid Week to take place over the objections of the U of M student government who feared the…
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Fast Forward Czech Court Says No to Button Factory Holocaust Restitution Claim
The Czech Republic’s highest court rejected the restitution claim of descendants of a Jew whose button factory had been nationalized. The Constitutional Court published its ruling on the factory of Zikmund Waldes on Friday, the Associated Press reported. The ruling confirmed a 2010 verdict, which overturned a 2009 decision by the Supreme Court that found…
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Fast Forward Rio De Janeiro Launches First Eruv
The Jewish community of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil concluded the launch of its first eruv — an area where Orthodox Jews may carry items outside their homes on Shabbat. The new eruv of Copacabana and Ipanema — two southern neighborhoods that are famous for their beach scenes — was certified last week by Kolel…
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Fast Forward Dutch Rapper Ismo Probed Over Hate Speech
Dutch police are investigating a Muslim rapper who used hateful language against gays and Jews in one of his songs. The rapper Ismo, whose real name is Ismael Houllich, included the text in his first single. The official video clip for the song titled “Eenmans” (or “One Man’s”) shows Ismo singing: “I hate those fucking…
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Music Roger Waters Urges Rolling Stones To Boycott Israel
Two founding members of the Pink Floyd rock band called on their colleagues from The Rolling Stones to cancel a concert in Israel. Roger Waters and Nick Mason made the call in an op-ed that was published Thursday on Salon.com. “Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of…
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Fast Forward Was Israeli Woman Slain by Terrorists?
A young Jewish woman whose body was found in northern Israel may have been killed by terrorists, police said. Shelly Dadon, 20, who left her home in Afula on Thursday for a job interview in Migdal Ha’emek, was found dead in that city’s industrial zone later that day, Army Radio reported Friday. A senior police…
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Fast Forward Naftali Bennett Rallies Right Wing Behind Gun-Pointing Israeli Soldier
Naftali Bennett, an Israeli cabinet minister, joined other right-wing leaders in justifying the actions of a soldier who was filmed loading a rifle and pointing it at Palestinian youths. In the incident on Sunday in Hebron, the soldier, who identified in Israeli media only as David, ordered a Palestinian youth to leave the area. In…
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Fast Forward Israel Regains ‘Free’ Designation by Freedom House in Annual Report
Israel was the only country in the Middle East with a press designated as free by a Washington think tank. The designation by the Freedom House in its annual report upgraded Israel from not free last year and put the Jewish state in the 14 percent of countries and territories throughout the world considered to…
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