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Fast Forward Israeli Cartoonist Stands By 9/11 Image of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli cartoonist Amos Biderman stood by his an explosive work that depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane towards the World Trade Center. Biderman, the political cartoonist for the liberal Haaretz newspaper, said he “never imagined” the harsh reaction to the terror-themed cartoon but pointedly refused to apologize in an article published on its…
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News Right-Wing Jewish Activist Yehuda Glick Shot After Temple Mount Conference
A prominent right-wing Israeli activist was shot three times and seriously wounded in a drive-by attack outside a controversial Jerusalem conference about the future of the Temple Mount, Haaretz reported. A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on Yehuda Glick outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem late Wednesday night. It was not immediately…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Avi Weiss, Progressive Voice in Orthodoxy, Steps Down From Pulpit
Rabbi Avi Weiss, a religiously progressive voice within Orthodoxy who has spearheaded the push to give women a greater role in the faith, announced he is stepping down on Thursday. Speaking from the pulpit of his Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Weiss told the packed congregation of his plans to end his tenure as rabbi. Many…
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The Schmooze Hoops Star Sorry for Holocaust Memorial Selfie
Danny Green poses for selfie at Holocaust Memorial in Berlin/Facebook San Antonio Spurs star Danny Green went to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, where his team was playing an exhibition game. Nothing wrong with that. He took a selfie amid the stark granite reminders of the millions who died in the Shoah. Nothing really wrong…
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Fast Forward Chemistry Nobelist William Moermer Once Scooped Israel’s Wolf Prize
The American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry previously won Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize. Professor William E. Moerner of Stanford University shared the 2008 Wolf Prize with h Allen J. Bard of the University of Texas-Austin for developing the field of single molecule optical imaging. Moermer shared this year’s Nobel with an American…
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Fast Forward Leonard Fein, Progressive Activist and Longtime Forward Columnist, Dies
Leonard Fein, inspiration to generations of progressives and Jews, passed away early in the morning of August 14. Even at the age of 80 he was a regular columnist for this publication as he had been for two decades. It was one of the many outlets for his writing and institution-building over half a century….
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Fast Forward Rabbi Slain on Way to Services at Miami Synagogue in Apparent Botched Robbery
An Orthodox rabbi was gunned down in broad daylight in an apparent botched robbery as he walked to Shabbat services at a Miami synagogue, police said. Joseph Raksin, 60, who was visiting his granddaughter and other relatives, was walking to shul at Bais Menachem when two young men approached him in Northeast Miami-Dade near North…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says ‘Hard To See’ Benjamin Netanyahu Making Tough Peace Compromises
President Barack Obama suggested in a groundbreaking new interview that Benjamin Netanyahu may lack the political courage to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians. Interviewed by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Obama said Israel doesn’t face questions about its survival but rather about how it can maintain its democratic and civic traditions,…
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