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Fast Forward Bill To Ban Circumcision Introduced In Iceland’s Parliament
(JTA) — Lawmakers from four political parties in Iceland introduced a bill in parliament that would ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys younger than 18 and impose imprisonment of up to six years on offenders. Members of the ruling Left Green Movement, the Progressive Party, People’s Party and the Pirate Party submitted the bill to…
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Fast Forward Triplets Separated At Birth For Experiment Seek Compensation From Jewish Group
(JTA) — Triplet siblings who were separated at birth and given up for adoption as part of an experiment are demanding compensation from the Jewish organization they say is responsible for it. Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman were in 1961 separated at birth in New York and adopted by three different families with…
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Fast Forward Israel Begins Legalizing West Bank Outpost After Settler Killed There
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal that begins the process of legalizing the Gilad Farm outpost in the northern West Bank. The approval comes less than a month after Rabbi Raziel Shevach, the 35-year-old father of six children, was killed in a drive-by shooting at the outpost junction. The proposal says the government…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Chief Rabbi Wants ‘March Of The Living’ Moved There To Punish Poland
(JTA) — A chief rabbi of Ukraine called on the Israeli government to suspend school trips to Poland and have them in his country because of Warsaw’s new bill on Nazi crimes. Rabbi Moshe Azman made the suggestion in a letter he sent to Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday, a day after the Polish…
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Fast Forward At This Jewish Camp, A 95-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Teaches Kids Yiddish
(JTA) HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. (JTA) — The kids at Camp Kinder Ring mostly do what kids do at any Jewish summer camp. They hang out by the lake, play sports, goof off, find discreet places to, um, go on walks. But for an hour each day, groups of Jewish adolescents here eagerly do what few…
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Fast Forward Justice Department Settles With Pro-Israel Group Over Delay In Tax Exemption
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Justice Department settled with Z Street, a right-wing pro-Israel group that was for years denied tax-exempt status. The group complained that its 2009 application for U.S. tax-exempt status was being unduly scrutinized because of its connection to Israel. It was granted in 2016. In a statement, the Justice Department did not …
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading On U.S. College Campuses, ADL Says
(JTA) — White supremacist propaganda on American college campuses has seen a dramatic increase since the fall of 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League. In a report published Thursday, the ADL called the reported growth “alarming.” ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded 346 incidents in which white supremacists have used fliers, stickers, banners and posters to…
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Fast Forward Budweiser Brewery Acquires Israeli Startup That Provides Bar Tap Data
(JTA) — Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has acquired an Israeli startup that collects data from bar taps. The deal to buy the startup Weissbeerger, according to a Monday article in the Israeli business publication Calcalist, is worth tens of millions of dollars. Weissbeerger, based in Tel Aviv, installs a kit into a bar’s…
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