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Fast Forward Largest Street Protests Yet Rock Syria’s Regime
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets across the nation Friday in the largest protests in months, shouting for the downfall of the regime in a defiant display invigorated by the presence of Arab observers, activists said. Despite the presence of the monitors, Al Jazeera quoted activists as saying that Syrian forces killed…
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Fast Forward Iran Poses Threat to Entire Region: Army Chief
Israel’s Army Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said on Friday that a nuclear Iran is a regional threat no less than it is a threat to Israel, and that “through appropriate International and Israeli preparations, which I will not specify here, this challenge can be met.” Speaking before high school students in Beer Tuvia near…
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Fast Forward Hamas May Not Field Presidential Candidate
Hamas is considering not running a candidate in the Palestinian Authority’s presidential election, which is expected to take place in May 2012, at the same time as elections for the Palestinian parliament and the PLO’s Palestine National Council. Hamas sources said no decision has yet been made by the organization’s leadership, but most senior Hamas…
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Fast Forward Melchior Tapped for Britain’s Chief Rabbi Post
Rabbi Michael Melchior, a former minister and Meimad party leader who has also served as the chief rabbi of Norway for thirty years, is being mentioned as the potential next chief rabbi of Britain. The United Synagogue in Britain will not announce its new chief rabbi for at least another year, but there is rife…
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Fast Forward Little Na’ama Margolese Returns to School
An 8-year-old girl who became the symbol of a recent public struggle against gender segregation and religious extremism returned to school on Thursday, for the first time since a violent incident that sparked a nation-wide protest movement. Na’ama Margolese turned into a household name last week after Channel 2 broadcasted a segment in which the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ministry Waits for Jewish Ruling on Women Eulogizing
The Religious Services Ministry is waiting for a halachic ruling before deciding whether to allow women to give eulogies in cemeteries, even though a ministerial committee authorized them to do so, a ministry official said Wednesday. “It is unthinkable that a halachic ruling” — a rabbinic ruling on a point of Jewish law — “should…
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Fast Forward Men Charged in Tel Aviv Hit and Run Want French Trial
Claude Isaacs and Eric Roubbi, two French nationals accused of killing Lee Zeitouni in a hit-and-run case in Tel Aviv last September said Thursday that a trial held in Israel would be unfair. Michel Apelbaum, one of Roubbi’s lawyers, spoke to Haaretz following the publication of French First Lady Carla Bruni’s letter to the Zeitouni…
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Fast Forward Ron Paul: I Am No Anti-Semite
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who is leading the polls in advance of next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa, denies allegations that he has promoted anti-Semitism, saying that this would be “a betrayal of my own intellectual heritage.” “Any kind of racism or anti-Semitism is incompatible with my philosophy,” Paul said in an interview with Haaretz,…
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