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Fast Forward Meet Israel’s First Muslim Female Diplomat
Israel appointed its first female Muslim diplomat this week, 31-year-old Rasha Atamny, who will be representing Israel in Turkey. Atamny is finishing the Foreign Ministry’s cadet course before she will join the embassy as first secretary in Turkey, the Times of Israel reported. Israel has had several male Muslim diplomats, and a Christian Arab female…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Met Secretly With Muslims Before Inauguration
(JTA) — Jared Kushner had a friendly but secret meeting with Muslim Americans prior to the inauguration of his father-in-law, Donald Trump, but the detente crumbled after the president banned entry to refugees and to travelers from seven Muslim majority countries. “We thought discussing our nation’s founding values and freedom for Americans of all faiths…
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Fast Forward Ayaan Hirsi Ali Compares Burqa To ‘Very Big Swastika’
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the prominent critic of Islam and women’s rights activist, likened the burqa to a swastika and an Islamic state flag in an interview with Australian television, after she canceled a visit to the country due to security concerns. “The burka that covers the face and that is really very much in your…
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Fast Forward Pakistan Registers First Jewish Citizen In Decades
After a three-year long struggle to change his papers to reflect his status as a Jew, Fishel Benkhald is finally receiving a new identity card and passport that recognize his religious affiliation. “It feels like shackles have been removed from me and I feel a great sense of liberty now,” Benkhald told Fox News. Raised…
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Community Will AIPAC Speak Out Against Islamophobia?
Last Shabbat I found a letter in my mailbox. The address line said only, “Shabbat Shalom.” I live in the Jewish Culture House at Tufts, and the letter was meant for us. It was from a group of Iranian students. They’d heard about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States – the overturned…
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Fast Forward Erdogan Compares Muslims In Europe Today To Jews In Nazi Germany
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels that Europeans are treating their Muslim citizens and immigrants badly. Very badly. “The Jews were treated the same in the past,” Erdogan said Wednesday. “Europe is heading towards being drowned in its own fears.” The Turkish president spoke after weeks of increasing tension with Western European countries following the…
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Breaking News Dutch Muslims Shout Anti-Semitic Slogans During Protest Over Turkish Cabinet Minister
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Dutch Muslims shouted anti-Semitic slogans amid violent clashes with police over authorities’ refusal to allow a Turkish Cabinet minister to campaign in Holland for a Turkey referendum vote. Dozens of protesters gathered on Saturday night in front of the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam in the Netherlands to listen to Family Minister Fatma Betul…
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Israel News Q&A: Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ Goes Inside Ultra-Orthodox World
In the last episode of his new CNN series, “Believer,” Reza Aslan goes dancing with the Na Nachs, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group known for its impromptu techno street parties. Aslan, a scholar of religion and an Iranian-born American Muslim, finds a lot to admire in this marginal Jewish sect that seem to accept him as…
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