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Fast Forward North Korea’s Kim Jong Il Is Dead
Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator who led the closed-off nuclear nation for the past 17 years, has died, North Korea’s state television announced Monday. Officials put his age at 69. Israel has long suspected Kim’s North Korea of helping Syria develop nuclear capabilities. Known in North Korea as the “Dear Leader,” Kim inherited…
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Fast Forward Vaclav Havel, Dissident Turned President, Dies at 75
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led the struggle to bring down communism in Czechoslovakia, has died, news reports said. He was 75. An assistant told the Associated Press that Havel, a longtime chain-smoker who had respiratory problems died Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic. Havel, a noted playwright, was…
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Fast Forward Gunman Found Insane in Anti-Semitic Shooting
A Massachusetts man was reportedly found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday in the 2009 shooting death of a Connecticut college student after a trial that portrayed him as anti-Semitic and mentally ill. A three-judge panel agreed with the defense for 32-year-old Stephen Morgan, who will be committed to Connecticut’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital for…
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Fast Forward Ex-Federation Worker Charged in ID Theft Scam
A worker at UJA-Federation in New York allegedly led a $2 million identity theft ring that targeted top donors to the charitable organization, prosecutors announced Friday. Tracy Nelson, of Brooklyn, worked at UJA-Federation for more than two years processing donations until she was fired last summer as the thefts came to light, the Daily News…
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Fast Forward Conservatives Put Out New Anti-Obama Ad
The neo-conservative Emergency Committee for Israel has a new full-page ad out in papers nationwide, accusing President Barack Obama of using Israel as a “punching bag.” The provocative ad appears in the New York Times along with newspapers in Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles. It leads with the bold-type line: “Why does the Obama…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Biennial Opens With Mogel, Sharansky
Best-selling author Wendy Mogel and Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky will be among the speakers at tonight’s opening plenary of the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial conference. The gathering, which runs through Sunday, will also feature keynote addresses by President Barack Obama, U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Israeli Defense…
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Fast Forward Top Congress Stories Include Weiner, Giffords
Three Jewish stories made Politico’s end-of-year list of the Top 10 Congressional stories of 2011. The return of Gabby Giffords after she was shot and nearly killed, the battle between Howard Berman and Brad Sherman in Los Angeles, and the Democrats’ loss of Anthony Weiner’s old seat in New York all made the list. Giffords…
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Fast Forward Lieberman Says Palestinian People No ‘Invention’
Sen. Joe Lieberman rejected Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s claim that Palestinians are an “invented” people, calling their existence a “reality.” “The important fact is that the Palestinians are a people today, and any resolution of the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has to be between two people, two nations,” Lieberman, an Orthodox…
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