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Fast Forward Israel Protests Palestinian Leaks on ‘Temporary Borders’ Over Rosh Hashana
Israel has protested what it says are Palestinian officials’ leaks to the media about the content of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Israeli peace negotiator Isaac Molho, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy to the peace talks, in a call over the weekend to his U.S. counterpart Martin Indyk, complained about the numerous leaks to the media…
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Fast Forward Syria Chaos Puts Off Loan of 15th-Century Botticelli Fresco to Israel
Concerned by war clouds over Syria, Italy is holding off loaning a 15th century masterpiece by Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli to Israel. But citing the importance of cultural relations between the two countries, the Italian Culture Ministry said it would soon decide on a work of similar “high cultural and artistic” significance to send to…
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Fast Forward Staten Island Jews Struggle To Recover From Hurricane Sandy
Nine months ago, Natalia Demidova crouched on the second floor of her Staten Island home and watched her neighbor’s SUV race a 10-foot wave down the street. The wave crashed through Demidova’s quiet residential block in the South Beach neighborhood and flooded her home with more than two feet of water. Demidova is among the…
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Fast Forward Munich Olympics Massacre Memorial Plans Are Unveiled
Plans for a memorial in Munich to 11 Israelis and a German police officer murdered at the 1972 Summer Olympics there were unveiled. Wednesday’s news conference at the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs announcing plans for the memorial took place a day before a ceremony in Israel marking the 41st anniversary of the…
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Fast Forward Iranian Leader Hasan Rouhani Tweets ‘Shana Tova’ to Jews
A Twitter account believed to operate with the authorization of Iranian President Hassan Rohani wished Jews worldwide a Shanah Tovah. “As the sun is about to set here in #Tehran I wish all Jews, especially Iranian Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah,” the tweet posted Wednesday said. The office of the recently elected Iranian president has…
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Fast Forward President Barack Obama Visits Raoul Wallenberg Memorial in Sweden
President Obama examined artifacts from the life of Raoul Wallenberg and wished Jews worldwide a “shanah tovah” during a tour of Stockholm’s Great Synagogue. Wallenberg’s half sister, Nina Lagergren, 92, escorted Obama on Wednesday as he examined the belongings of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust and later disappeared…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Won’t Fine Open-on-Sabbath Businesses
Tel Aviv told the Israeli Supreme Court that it will not fine businesses that have until now opened on Shabbat as it works to change a city bylaw that bans business from opening on the Jewish Sabbath. In June, the Supreme Court ordered the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality to enforce a bylaw that bans the city’s…
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Fast Forward Ariel Sharon Undergoes Surgery for Feeding Tube
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had successful surgery to insert a feeding tube. Tuesday’s surgery was preplanned, according to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv. Sharon, 84, has been in state classified as “minimal consciousness” since 2006, when he suffered a severe stroke. Tests conducted in January at Soroka…
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