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Fast Forward Amar’e Stoudemire Launches Campaign for Israeli Hatzalah
New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire has launched a campaign to raise money for the volunteer-based ambulance service United Hatzalah of Israel. The campaign is called “Amar’e Saves,” and people can pledge money per point that Stoudemire scores over the course of the 2014 season, which started Wednesday night. “In today’s society, which is so…
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Fast Forward Vietnam’s First Israeli Film Festival Marks 20 Years of Diplomatic Relations
A film festival in Vietnam will mark 20 years of diplomatic relations with Israel. The five-day festival organized by Israel’s embassy opens Saturday at the National Cinema Centre in Hanoi, moving on Nov. 6 to the BHD Star Cineplex ICON68 in Ho Chi Minh City, the embassy announced on its Facebook page earlier this week….
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Fast Forward 4 Ohio ‘Blood Bucket’ Protest Students Face Trial
Four students arrested for disrupting an Ohio University student senate meeting rejected a plea bargain and maintained their pleas of “not guilty.” The students — Jonah Yulish, Maxwell Peltz, Rebecca Sebo and Gabriel Sirkin — appeared in Athens County Municipal Court on Wednesday for a pretrial hearing, according to The Post, OU’s student newspaper. The…
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Fast Forward Muslims Return to Temple Mount for Prayers
Muslim worshippers over the age of 50 returned to pray at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, a day after Israeli authorities shut down all access to the sacred compound following violence in East Jerusalem. The Muslim quarter of the Old City was calm early in the day, the Muslim holy day,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cartoonist Stands By 9/11 Image of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli cartoonist Amos Biderman stood by his an explosive work that depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane towards the World Trade Center. Biderman, the political cartoonist for the liberal Haaretz newspaper, said he “never imagined” the harsh reaction to the terror-themed cartoon but pointedly refused to apologize in an article published on its…
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Opinion That Time Yehuda Glick Was My Tour Guide
Rabbi Yehuda Glick / Tumblr The first time I met Rabbi Yehuda Glick, I thought he seemed completely normal. I never would have thought to call him a right-wing extremist, as many reports are doing nowadays. And I certainly never would have dreamed that a few years later he would be the target of an…
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Fast Forward White House Addresses ‘Asperger-y’ Comment About Benjamin Netanyahu
With all the media attention directed at the expression “chickenshit” used by anonymous senior administration officials to describe Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, some of the other insults contained in the Jeffrey Goldberg’s report went almost unnoticed. “Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous,…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Slams ‘Chickenshit’ Slur on Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
The description of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit” by an anonymous U.S. official as quoted in a U.S. magazine this week was disgraceful and damaging, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. Netanyahu on Wednesday condemned the comment from an unnamed official in The Atlantic, which added to tensions between his…
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