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Fast Forward NASA Signs Deal With Israel Space Agency For Lunar Mission
JERUSALEM (JTA) — NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency and the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL to collaborate on the Jewish state’s unmanned moon mission slated to launch from Cape Canaveral next year. The landing would culminate eight years of collaboration on the $88 million project. If it succeeds, Israel will become the…
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Fast Forward Trump Signs Law Expanding Hate Crime Protections To Religious Institutions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump enacted a law that expands hate crime protections to religious institutions. The bill signed last Friday by Trump, Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act, was prompted in part by a series of bomb threats last year against Jewish institutions. The American Jewish Committee on Wednesday praised the passage of the…
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Fast Forward Chicago Kosher Supervisor Shot Dead On Simchat Torah
CHICAGO (JTA) — Eliyahu Moscowitz, a kosher supervisor at a supermarket, was shot dead in Chicago on Simchat Torah in what local residents fear might be a killing spree. Moscowitz, 24, was shot once in the head and left for dead on a rainy Monday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, just a mile…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Looted Painting To Be Returned To Heirs Of Jewish Owner
(JTA) — A French court has ordered that an 1887 Pissarro painting be returned to the heirs of its Jewish owner after rejecting an appeal by an American couple who had sued to retain ownership. The current owners, Bruce and Robbi Toll, had lent the artwork, “La Cueillette des Pois,” or “Picking Peas,” to the…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Praises $38 Billion, 10-Year Defense Agreement With Israel
(JTA) — The Trump Administration praised the support for Israel shown in the new ten-year defense agreement signed in 2016 under President Barack Obama. The 10-year $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding went into operation on Monday, the first day of the new fiscal year. Under the memorandum of understanding, the United States will set funding…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Calls For Increased Safety Measures For Electric Bikes
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for increased safety regulations for electric bicycles after the death of the son of a prominent Israeli director. Ari Nesher, son of director Avi Nesher, was killed in a hit-and-run accident while riding his electric bicycle in Tel Aviv last week. He died on Thursday, three…
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Fast Forward UN Refugee Agency Employees Evacuated From Gaza Over Security Concerns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Most of the international employees of the United Nations refugee agency in the Gaza Strip were evacuated after what the agency called “a series of worrying security incidents.” Nine of the 11 members of the foreign staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency left Gaza for Israel though the Erez…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Drawn In Bathroom Of Indianapolis High School
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in a bathroom at a local high school near Indianapolis. Swastikas were discovered drawn on mirrors and a counter in a boy’s bathroom at Pike High School on Thursday, the Indianapolis Star reported. A similar incident occurred the next day in a restroom. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and…
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