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Fast Forward Netanyahu Meets With Head Of Ukrainian Party That Includes Neo-Nazis
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come under fire in recent years for allegedly failing to confront anti-Semitism and revisionism in Central and Eastern Europe, met Wednesday with the head of a European political party whose membership includes ultranationalists and neo-Nazis. Oleh Lyashko of the Ukrainian Radical Party came to Jerusalem as part…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Amends Yom Hashoah Prayers To Include Jews From Arab Countries
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has amended the memorial prayer for the dead recited on Yom Hashoah to include Jews in Arab countries. The Yizkor prayer had asked God to remember “all the souls of all the communities of Beit Israel in the European Diaspora” who died in the Holocaust. In the…
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Fast Forward Jeffrey Epstein Ties To Ehud Barak Becomes Israeli Election Issue
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender now embroiled in a sex-trafficking case, has become a player in Israel’s election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised questions about former prime minister Ehud Barak’s relationship with Epstein and money Barak received from a foundation helmed by Epstein. Barak, who left politics…
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Fast Forward Coast Guard Ends Search For Virginia Rabbi Who Jumped In Ocean To Save Student
(JTA) — The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in a state park in Virginia Beach, Virginia, saving a student who was having trouble returning to shore. The official search was called off mid-Wednesday, a full day after Reuven Bauman, 35, a teacher at Yeshiva…
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Fast Forward Artist Who Drew Anti-Semitic Cartoon No Longer Attending White House Summit
(JTA) — An artist who drew a cartoon that showed U.S. government officials as puppets of George Soros and the Rothschilds will not be attending a social media event at the White House to which he was invited. Ben Garrison on Saturday had tweeted a photo of the invitation on Saturday saying that he was…
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Fast Forward Dozens Arrested Protesting Ethiopian-Israeli’s Shooting Death By Off-Duty Cop
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis and their supporters demonstrated in cities across Israel on Tuesday night to protest the killing two nights earlier of an Ethiopian teen by an off-duty police officer. At least 60 protesters were arrested and at least 47 police officers were injured as protesters blocked major intersections throughout the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Get A Raise Under New German Compensation Agreement
(JTA) — The spouse of a Holocaust survivor will continue to receive a monthly pension for nine months after the survivor’s death under new agreements with the German government. The agreements negotiated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany also provides a $50 million increase in funding for social welfare services for survivors,…
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Fast Forward Some IDF Cadets Listen To Rabbis Over Commanders, Former Defense Minister Says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Religious pre-military academies are creating “private militias” that listen to their rabbis over their military commanders, Avigdor Liberman charged. Liberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party and formerly defense minister, made the statement during an address at the annual Herzliya policy conference. “We can’t throw out the baby with the bathwater….
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