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Fast Forward Jewish President Of Rio 2016 Olympics Arrested For Corruption
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Jewish president of the Rio 2016 Olympic Committee was arrested amid an investigation into a vote-buying scheme to bring the Olympic Games to South America for the first time. Carlos Arthur Nuzman, who also is the president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and an honorary International Olympic Committee member, would…
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Fast Forward Gal Gadot Speaks Hebrew, Dates O.J. Simpson While Hosting ‘SNL’
(JTA) — Gal Gadot, during her first time as host of “Saturday Night Live,” spoke Hebrew, kissed SNL cast member Kate McKinnon and went on a date with O.J. Simpson. Gadot opened her stint on the show with a monologue in which she switched to Hebrew to address her friends and family back in Israel,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Call For Tougher Gun Control Laws After Las Vegas Attack
(JTA) — Jewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation. At least 58 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday night. It is…
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Fast Forward Amazon Expanding ‘Alexa’ Offices In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amazon is expanding in Israel, setting up Alexa Shopping teams in two cities. The company will open research and development groups in Haifa and Tel Aviv with a total of 100 employees at the start, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Alexa is a digital personal assistant developed by Amazon that allows…
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Fast Forward Catalonia Jewish Community Divided By Independence Vote
(JTA) — Violence between police and pro-independence protesters in Barcelona will not disrupt holiday services there, a leader of the Jewish community said. Victor Sorenssen, a leader of the Jewish community of the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous region with its own language and many residents who seek independence from Spain, said the city’s Jewish…
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Fast Forward Lena Dunham Connected To Judaism Through Israeli Poet Yehuda Amichai
(JTA) — Jewish actress, writer and director Lena Dunham announced to her 3.2 million followers on Instagram that she has connected to Judaism through the poetry of modern Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. In a post on erev Yom Kippur, Dunham wrote: “This past year a special person helped me connect to my Judaism in a…
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Fast Forward British University Censors Holocaust Survivor’s Talk Comparing Israel To Nazis
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor’s speech that compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazis treatment of Jews was censored by a British university. Manchester University censored the title of a talk in March by Holocaust survivor Marika Sherwood, The Guardian reported on Friday. The original talk was titled: “A Holocaust survivor’s story and the…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Leader: Israeli Jews Must ‘Return’ To Former Countries
(JTA) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on Jews in Israel to “return to the countries from which they came” before his terror organization fights a war with Israel. In his speech Sunday on the Shi’ite commemoration of Ashura, which marks the killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Nasrallah called on Jews who immigrated to…
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