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Fast Forward Birmingham Mayor Blames Only Some Jews for Angela Davis Controversy
(JTA) — Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin partially retracted a statement that blamed local Jews for getting a civil rights award rescinded from Angela Davis. But the mayor still blamed some Jews. In an initial statement issued Sunday, Woodfin wrote that “after protests from our local Jewish community and some of its allies,” the Birmingham Civil…
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Fast Forward Miami Day School Student Dies In Fall From 9th Floor Balcony
(JTA) — A student at the Hebrew Academy of Miami died in a fall from the ninth story of his apartment building. Samuel Farkas on Tuesday evening was locked out of his family’s ninth floor apartment and had been trying to climb down from the balcony of the apartment above his on the tenth floor…
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Fast Forward 5 Israeli Soldiers Arrested For Allegedly Beating 2 Palestinian Terror Suspects
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Defense Forces officer and four soldiers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly beating two Palestinian terror suspects while in their custody. The five soldiers are all members of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda infantry battalion, a unit for religious soldiers. The Palestinian men were arrested near Ramallah while Israeli troops…
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Fast Forward Israel Predicts Foreign Country Will Interfere In Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Israel Security Agency said an unnamed foreign state “intends to intervene” in Israel’s national elections. Russia said a couple of days later that it’s not the state. The head of the ISA, Nadav Argaman, said Monday that the meddling in the April 9 vote will come through cyberattacks and…
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Fast Forward Shira Ish-Ran, Whose Baby Died After Ofra Terror Attack, Leaves Hospital
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shira Ish-Ran, the woman whose prematurely born baby died after she was shot in a terror attack last month left the hospital, on her feet. “We are a walking miracle,” she told reporters as she left the hospital. “I arrived at the hospital lying down and left walking.” Ish-Ran, who left leaning…
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Fast Forward Jewish Charity In Canada Audited For Giving Donor Money To IDF-Linked Projects
MONTREAL (JTA)— Canada’s largest and oldest Jewish charity, the Jewish National Fund of Canada, is downplaying news that it was audited by Canadian tax authorities for using donor money to fund projects linked to the IDF. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Jan. 4 that the audit was carried out by the Canada Revenue Agency…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Calls For Chance To Debate His Accusers On Live TV
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a chance to take on his accusers on live television. Speaking Monday night, the prime minister said that during investigations into the corruption cases against him he “demanded a face-to-face confrontation with states’ witnesses.” He said he was denied several times. “Today I repeat that demand,…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Calls On US To Recognize Israel’s Claim To Golan Heights
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas again called on the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Israel is stepping up its campaign for international recognition of its claim to the strategic plateau. A joint statement by the two Republican senators came on the same…
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