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Fast Forward Barghouti Calls for Rallies To Support Statehood Bid
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has called for mass rallies in September in support of a diplomatic bid to gain UN membership for a state of Palestine, news agencies reported Wednesday. Barghouti, a figure widely respected among many Palestinians, said taking the statehood quest to the United Nations was part of a new strategy that…
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Fast Forward Leiby Kletzky Drugged Before Murder, Autopsy Says
Leiby Kletzky was drugged with prescription pills before being murdered, newly released autopsy results revealed Wednesday. Traces of muscle relaxants, anti-psychotic medicine, and pain-killers were found in the 8-year-old Brooklyn boy’s blood, the city medical examiner said, the New York Daily News reported. The coroner’s report listed the pills along with suffocation as the cause…
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Fast Forward Leiby Kletzky’s Parents End Shiva Period With Walk Outside
The heartbroken parents of slain Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky ended their traditional mourning period on Wednesday with an early morning walk outside their Boro Park home, news reports said. Nachman Kletzky and his wife, Esther, were surrounded by relatives as they walked outside on 15th Ave., around 6 a.m., the New York Daily News reported….
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The Schmooze Is ‘Friends With Benefits’ a ‘Judeo-Christian’ Romantic Comedy?
Romantic comedies have a lot of Jewish history — Woody Allen practically invented the modern version of the genre with ”Annie Hall.” But is there a distinction between Jewish and Christian rom coms, and is there such a thing as a “Judeo-Christian” combination? There is according to David Newman and Keith Merryman, writers of “Friends…
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Fast Forward Defense Suggests Suspect in Leiby Kletzky Killing May Claim Insanity
Lawyers for suspected killer Levi Aron suggested they may pursue an insanity defense in the murder of Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky. Two lawyers claimed Aron is less than mentally capable, the Daily News reported. “There’s a severe diminished capacity,” lawyer Gerard Marrone told the paper. Lawyer Pierre Bazile added that mental health professionals would be…
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Fast Forward Couple Accused of Attacking Man To Force Jewish Divorce
A New Jersey couple has been charged with abducting an Israeli man last year, beating him and threatening to bury him alive if he didn’t grant his wife a religious divorce, New Jersey federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal authorities say David and Judy Wax attacked the man because he had refused to give his wife…
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Fast Forward Father of Leiby Kletzky Wants More Security Cameras
The father of slain Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky has said more security cameras could help prevent future crimes in his predominantly Jewish neighborhood. Nachman Kletzky told a group of journalists and local elected officials that he hopes the tragic killing may spur installation of more cameras like the one that captured suspected killer Levi Aron…
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Fast Forward Silver and Koch Spar Over Weiner Seat
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) and former Mayor Ed Koch are locked in a war of words over the special election to fill disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s congressional seat. Silver called Koch “totally out of line” for suggesting that Jews should vote for the Republican candidate in the Sept. 13 vote to elect…
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