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Fast Forward Kippah-Wearing Victim Of Berlin Anti-Semitic Beating Is Actually Arab Doing ‘Experiment’
The 21-year-old victim of an anti-Semitic attack on the streets of Berlin has told German media that, despite the fact that he was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap, he was not Jewish, but an Israeli Arab wearing the kippa as an experiment. “I’m not Jewish, I’m an Israeli, I grew up in Israel in an…
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Fast Forward NRA Spokeswoman Called Out For ‘Fired By The Jews’ Tweet
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch came under fire on Twitter after a arguably anti-Semitic tweet resurfaced on the social media platform. The October 2010 tweet from Loesch read, “I bet Rick Sanchez was fired by a Jew.” Loesch was responding to CNN’s firing of the daytime anchor a day after telling a radio interviewer…
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Fast Forward Israel Top Court Suggests It Will Not Enforce Western Wall Prayer Deal
The Israeli Supreme Court indicated on Sunday that it would not force the government to implement the full plan it had approved and later suspended for an egalitarian prayer space at Jerusalem’s Western Wall – provided that it moved ahead with certain elements of it. Attorneys representing the state notified the court that the government…
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Fast Forward Rick Jacobs And Reform Rabbis Beaten For Praying At Western Wall
A violent confrontation broke out at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Thursday, when a delegation of Reform movement leaders tried to hold a Torah-reading service at the site. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, was roughed up by security guards employed at the Western Wall, one of whom threatened to spray him…
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Fast Forward Larry David Crosses ‘SNL’ Line With Jokes About Sex Harassment, Jews — And The Holocaust
Larry David is no stranger to flirting with the limits of good taste. But the comic’s monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’ caused many to accuse him of stepping over that line, with jokes about romance in concentration camps and the fact that so many of those accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish. He…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu To Skip Federation Convention As Rift With Diaspora Grows
In a sign of the growing rift between the Israeli government and Diaspora Jewry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be appearing this year at the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America. Only once since being reelected prime minister in 2009 did Netanyahu not address this influential forum. Unforeseen developments forced him…
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Fast Forward Israel Targets Amnesty International Over Anti-Occupation Campaign
Israel plans to punish Amnesty International for its recent campaign, which encourages people to lobby companies and governments to boycott settlement products, by denying tax benefits to Israelis who donate to the human rights organization. It is the first time the government will apply the so-called anti-boycott law, which penalizes organizations and individuals calling for…
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Fast Forward Lakewood Teachers Check Girls’ Hair Length In New ‘Modesty’ Crackdown
A video clip that depicts teachers at an ultra-Orthodox school checking schoolgirls’ hair to make sure they comply with standards of so-called modesty standards has provoked outrage on social media. Teachers at Lakewood Girls School Bnos Yaakov in New Jersey apparently took the action after administrators wrote a letter to the girls’ parents, declaring that…
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