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Fast Forward Israel Formally Suspends Peace Talks With Palestinians
Israel formally suspended peace talks with the Palestinian Authority over the P.A.’s national unity accord signed with the Hamas authority in the Gaza Strip. “The Cabinet today unanimously decided that Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls for Israel’s destruction,” said a statement by Israeli Prime…
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Fast Forward New Holocaust Curriculum in Israel To Begin in Kindergarten
Israel will teach the Holocaust in the country’s schools beginning in kindergarten under a planned curriculum released by the Education Ministry. The curriculum, which appears on the ministry’s website, is titled Bishvili HaZikaron, or Memory Is For Me. It was released several days before the start of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Experts from…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Security Cabinet Meets To Discuss Palestinian Unity Accord
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of the Security Cabinet to discuss Israel’s responses to the Palestinian’s unity agreement. The Cabinet met Thursday in the wake of the agreement signed Wednesday between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and Hamas, considered a terrorist organization in both Israel and the United States….
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Fast Forward Starbucks To Buy 10% Stake in SodaStream
Starbucks is in advanced talks to buy 10 percent of Israeli home soda machine company SodaStream, an Israeli business daily reported. Shares of SodaStream jumped more than 10 percent following the report Wednesday in Globes. The newspaper said that an announcement of the purchase, at a company value of $1.1 billion, is expected “soon.” Starbucks…
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Fast Forward Tunisia Minister Chided for Allowing Israelis In
Tunisia’s tourism minister has been summoned to appear before the country’s parliament to explain her decision to allow Israelis to enter the country on their passports for a religious festival. Tunisia does not have diplomatic ties with Israel; the lawmakers say that allowing the religious pilgrims to use their Israeli passports is tantamount to recognizing…
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Fast Forward 5 Shomrim Charged in Beating of Black Gay Man
Five haredi Orthodox Jewish men were indicted for attacking a gay black man in Brooklyn. The five were charged Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court in Brooklyn with gang assault and other counts for the December attack, but not for hate crimes, WABC-TV reported. They were associated with a civilian neighborhood watch group, the…
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News Two Synagogue-Goers Save Family From Burning Car in London
Two men worshipping at a synagogue in London pulled members of a family from a burning car. Moses Kupermann of London and a visitor from Israel, identified as a veteran of the Israeli army, pulled an elderly man and a baby, who was in a car seat, from the vehicle after it burst into flames…
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Fast Forward Aaron Landes, Philadelphia Rabbi and Navy Chaplain, Dies at 84
Rabbi Aaron Landes, a Philadelphia congregational rabbi for decades and the longtime director of U.S. Naval Reserve chaplains, has died. Landes died on April 19 following a battle with leukemia. He was 84. He managed some 700 chaplains as head of the chaplains corps until retiring in 1989, according to the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia….
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