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Fast Forward 2,500 Rally At Copacabana Beach in Rio For Peace in Israel
Some 2,500 people rallied at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for peace in Israel and the Middle East. Participants of varying ages and types — Jews and non-Jews — marched along the promenade and in the street. They sang Hebrew songs, as well as the Brazilian and Israeli national anthems. Huge signs in…
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The Schmooze ‘Big Brother’ in Bomb Shelter
Keshet Broadcasting The show must go on! This time with a new bomb shelter. Although many Israeli shows and networks have gone on hiatus due to Operation Protective Edge, Big Brother Israel is undeterred. The show, filmed in Neve Ilan, a village near the outskirts of Jerusalem, was in the middle of its sixth season…
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Fast Forward U.S. ‘Appalled’ By ‘Disgraceful Shelling’ On U.N. School in Gaza
The United States criticized the “disgraceful shelling” at a U.N. school in Gaza on Sunday and urged Israel to do more to prevent civilian casualties in its war against Hamas militants. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also called for an investigation into attacks on U.N. schools in densely populated Gaza. “The United States is appalled…
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Fast Forward U.N. Secretary General Condemns Attack on Gaza School as ‘Criminal Act’
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly attack on a Gaza school on Sunday as a “moral outrage and a criminal act” and demanded those responsible for the “gross violation of international humanitarian law” be held accountable. The shelling of the U.N. school in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least 10 civilians, the United…
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News Did Germany Help Save Palestine’s Jews During World War I?
(Haaretz) – “The war had already had an impact on Palestine. Not a single gunshot had yet been heard, but hundreds of lives had already been claimed by the contagious diseases introduced by the Turkish forces. The crisis had only just begun, and the ‘sick man’ (Turkey) had already demonstrated its state of rottenness, its…
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Fast Forward Escape Tunnel Discovered in Palestinian Prisoners’ Bathroom
An escape tunnel was discovered in the bathroom of Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli prison. Guards from the Israel Prisons Service uncovered the tunnel Sunday at the Gilboa Prison, in northern Israel, in a bathroom shared by eight members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. Two of the prisoners are serving life sentences, according…
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Funeral of Fallen IDF Soldier Hadar Goldin
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of Lt. Hadar Goldin, the soldier who was declared dead after first being feared kidnapped. Friends and family of Goldin, along with ordinary Israelis, converged on the military cemetery in Kfar Saba, in central Israel, for the rite on Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t expect you to leave me so…
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Fast Forward Australian Newspaper Apologizes For Cartoon Slammed as Anti-Semitic
The Sydney Morning Herald apologized “unreservedly” for publishing a cartoon that Jewish leaders called “crudely anti-Semitic.” Jewish leaders had threatened legal action if the daily did not publish an apology for the July 26 cartoon by Glen Le Lievre. The cartoon depicted a hook-nosed Jewish man wearing a kippah and sitting on an armchair emblazoned…
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