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Fast Forward Paul Ryan Rejects Rabbi’s Plea To Censure Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, dismissed a bid by Democrats to censure President Donald Trump as a “partisan hack-fest” after a rabbi in his Wisconsin district asked him to join because of what she said was Trump’s condoning of racism. Rabbi Dena Feingold, who leads Beth…
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Fast Forward Iran Can Get Weapons-Grade Uranium Within Five Days, Nuclear Chief Says
(JTA) — Iran can begin enriching weapons-grade uranium within five days if the nuclear deal with the world powers is canceled, its atomic chief said. “If we want, we can start the 20 percent enrichment in Fordo in maximum five days and this has a lot of meaning,” Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads the Atomic…
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Fast Forward Israeli Government Defends Law Legalizing Some Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government said a law that legalizes certain settlements built on Palestinian property is “a humane, proportional and reasonable response to the genuine distress of Israeli residents.” On Monday, the state submitted a brief to the Supreme Court supporting what is known as the Regulation Law. A private attorney submitted the…
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Fast Forward Severe Etrog Shortage Has Chabad Communities On Edge
(JTA) –Fifty years ago, leaders of the Chabad movement tasked Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan with supervising the local production and export of the Calabria etrog, the citrus fruit used by Jews during the harvest festival of Sukkot. Lazar’s job is to make sure the fruit is kosher for the festival, and that local farmers aren’t…
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Fast Forward Jewish GOP Senate Candidate’s Twitter Account Hacked To Like David Duke
(JTA) — The Twitter account of a Jewish Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate was discovered to have been hacked after it showed that she liked several posts by white supremacist leader David Duke. Lena Epstein, who is running for the nomination in Michigan and was a co-chair of the Donald Trump presidential campaign there…
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Fast Forward Israeli Chief Rabbinate: Supreme Court Lacks Jurisdiction Over Western Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Chief Rabbinate said the country’s Supreme Court lacks the jurisdiction to rule on the “intrareligious” struggle involving egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. In a 166-page brief filed Tuesday with the Supreme Court, the Chief Rabbinate said in part, “The courts are not the appropriate tribunal to decide if Jewish law…
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Fast Forward Youth Olympics Adds Anti-Racism Program From Simon Wiesenthal Center
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A Simon Wiesenthal Center program against racism in sports will be implemented in the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games with the support of the Organization of American States. The “Eleven Points Against Racism in Football” program works with sport authorities, athletes and referees to stop and prevent racial hatred in sport…
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Fast Forward U.S. Asks U.N. To Bury ‘Blacklist’ Of Companies Doing Business In Settlements
(JTA) — The Trump administration has called on the United Nations not to publish a database of companies that do business in Israeli settlements. The database, which the administration calls a “blacklist,” was approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council in March 2016 and includes American companies such as Caterpillar, TripAdvisor, Priceline.com and Airbnb. The…
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