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Fast Forward Germany Averaged Four Anti-Semitic Incidents Every Day In 2017
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Germany in 2017 remained about the same as the previous year. Published Monday in the Berlin daily newspaper Tagesspiegel, the report — based on police statistics delivered to Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau of the Left Party — indicated there were 1,453 incidents reported in 2017…
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Coalition Chairman: Our Members Are ‘Thrilled’ With Trump
(JTA) — The chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition said its members are “thrilled” about the performance of President Donald Trump, especially with his approach to the Middle East. “I think they’re feeling thrilled,” said former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman in an interview with McClatchy at the weekend’s annual RJC leadership conference in Las Vegas….
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Fast Forward Paul McCartney Wins A Prestigious Prize In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Paul McCartney is one of nine laureates announced for Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize. McCartney is one of two recipients of the 2018 Wolf Prize in Music, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin announced Monday. Each year the Wolf Foundation awards $100,000 prizes in five fields. More than 30 winners have gone on to receive…
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Fast Forward 102 House Dems Urge Trump To Continue Funding UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency
(JTA) — Some 102 Democratic congressmen sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to continue funding for tbe U.N.’s Palestinian relief agency and to the Palestinian Authority. The State Department last month announced that it had put a hold on $65 million of the $125 million annual allocation to the United Nations…
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Fast Forward ADL: Rep. Danny Davis Insists He Was Misquoted In Article Praising Farrakhan
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League said an Illinois congressman told the group that he was misquoted in an article claimed that he had praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. An ADL official told JTA on Friday that the group had reached out to Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat, after an article in The Daily…
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Fast Forward In Memphis, Jewish Congressmen’s Shared Faith Helps Bridge Partisan Divide
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When the two congressmen representing Memphis meet on the plane home from the nation’s capital, the lawmakers catch up on what they have in common: the NCAA Division I basketball team at the University of Memphis; mutual friends in the legal communities; and what’s up at Temple Israel. Despite a shared affection…
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Fast Forward 17 Jewish Groups Call On White House To Fire Adviser Stephen Miller
(JTA) – Seventeen Jewish groups, including the left-leaning J Street, called on the White House to dismiss Stephen Miller as senior policy adviser. The organizations, including American Jewish World Service, Americans for Peace Now and T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, issued the call in an open letter they sent Thursday to the White…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Calls Downing Of Israeli F-16 “New Strategic Phase” In Syria
(JTA) — Hezbollah called the downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter plane the start of a “new strategic phase” in which Israel would no longer operate freely in Syrian airspace. In a statement Saturday, the Shi’ite terrorist group praised the “alertness of the Syrian army, which downed the plane,” saying this marks the “end the…
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