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Fast Forward Israel Warns Against Gay ‘Conversion’ Therapy
Israel’s health ministry issued a warning declaring that therapies aimed at changing patients from gay to straight are not supported by medical evidence and could be harmful. Signed by Health Minister Yael German, Sunday’s decision adopts the position of the Council of Psychologists and the Israel Psychological Association. The health ministry statement warns that gay…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Pollard ‘Release Date’ Scrubbed From U.S. Prisons Web Site
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons changed Jonathan Pollard’s release date on its website from “Nov. 15 2015” to “Life.” A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons was unable Monday to explain the change on the bureau’s “inmate locator,” which he confirmed occurred recently. Under sentencing guidelines in place in 1987 when Pollard, a former U.S….
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Fast Forward British Parliament To Vote on Recognizing State of Palestine
British lawmakers will next week hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on whether the government should recognize Palestine as a state, a move unlikely to shift official policy but designed to raise the political profile of the issue. Britain does not class it as a state, but says it could do so at any time if…
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Fast Forward South African Woolworth’s Chain Battles BDS Protests
Woolworths of South Africa said it may take the BDS lobby to court for threatening its staff and customers. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has held more than 40 protests at Woolworths stores throughout the country in recent weeks. “Our employees, of all faiths and cultures, are telling us that they are feeling increasingly…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Holds Bible Study Session With Parents of Slain Teens
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a Bible study session, attended by the parents of three Israeli teens kidnapped and killed this summer. Iris and Uri Yifrach, Rachel and Avi Fraenkel, and Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaar joined the Tanach Study Circle, a tradition started by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and which was renewed…
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Israel News U.N. Maps Show Pinpoint Accuracy of Israel’s Strikes on Gaza
In their latest effort to rebut war crimes allegations, Israel’s defenders are seizing on a surprising tool: a collection of maps assembled by the United Nations as a guide for reconstructing the homes, institutions and, to the extent possible, lives of surviving victims destroyed by the Gaza campaign. The maps and aerial photographs provide a…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu ‘Baffled’ by U.S. Rebuke Over East Jerusalem Building
The U.S. condemnation of Israeli housing starts in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood is “against American values,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. In an interview Sunday morning on the CBS News show “Face the Nation,” Netanyahu said he was “baffled” by the criticism. “What we are being criticized for is that some Jewish residents of…
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Fast Forward Swedish Embassy Backpedals On Palestinian Statehood Recognition
The Swedish Embassy in Israel appears to have walked back the new prime minister’s declaration that Sweden would recognize a state of Palestine. In a statement released Sunday evening, the embassy said Sweden will recognize a Palestinian state at the conclusion of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. “The conflict between Israel and Palestine can…
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