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Fast Forward Argentina Freezes Assets Of Suspected Hezbollah Fundraising Network
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — In a first, Argentina’s government targeted a Hezbollah fundraising network in the northern Triple Frontier with Brazil and Paraguay. The Financial Information Unit of the Argentine Republic investigated possible criminal actions by Lebanese citizens living in Argentina that could be involved in money laundering and financing terrorist acts. The unit investigated…
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Fast Forward Another Group Leaves Birthright To Visit Palestinians
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of American Jews visiting Israel on a free Birthright trip walked off the tour during a visit to the City of David in Jerusalem to visit a Palestinian family who is facing eviction from their eastern Jerusalem home. Six of the young people came from one Birthright tour and two…
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Fast Forward Peace Activist Recalled From Hebron After Slapping Jewish Boy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The legal counsel for the observer organization group the Temporary International Presence in Hebron was ordered to leave Israel after slapping a 10-year-old boy in Hebron. The incident occurred on Wednesday when the Swiss observer joined a tour of the area of Hebron inhabited by Jewish settlers led by the left-wing Israeli…
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Fast Forward British Jewish Communal Leader Suspended For Racist Anti-Arab Rhetoric
(JTA) — The Board of Deputies of British Jews suspended for six years a senior member deputy who shared on Twitter a text describing Arabs as “the vilest of animals.” Roslyn Pine, the deputy for Finchley United Synagogue, was told she was suspended for the next two triennials after the Board’s constitution committee found that…
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Fast Forward Norwegian Hospitals Refuse To Circumcise Boys Younger Than 3 Years Old
(JTA) — At least two hospitals in Norway are refusing to help parents who wish to have their underage male children circumcised in violation of Norwegian law, a Norwegian paper revealed. Stavanger University Hospital in the country’s west and Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen are not cooperating on the nonmedical circumcision of boys younger than…
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Fast Forward Greek Holocaust Memorial Vandalized Twice In Two Weeks
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The monument, located on the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, was smeared in blue paint and a cross was painted on it. Tuesday’s attack is the second time that the monument has been vandalized in two weeks. The monument, a series of gravestones…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem’s Top Historian Accepts Joint Israel-Poland Holocaust Declaration
(JTA) — Yad Vashem’s chief historian Dina Porat said Tuesday that “we can live with” much of the joint Holocaust declaration by Israel and Poland that has come in for criticism, including from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Porat in an interview with Israel’s Kan national broadcaster said the declaration should be changed but not canceled. The declaration made…
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Fast Forward Germany Increases Funding For Holocaust Survivors Globally By $88 Million
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement Tuesday said the increase brings global allocations by Germany for 2019 to $564 million. The Claims Conference and representatives of the German government negotiated the…
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