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Fast Forward Matt Nosanchuk Named White House Jewish Liaison
The White House is set to name Matt Nosanchuk, a lawyer who has been prominent in advancing the Obama administration’s gay rights policies, as its new full-time Jewish liaison. Nosanchuk will replace Zach Kelly, who has held the job part time since the last full-time liaison to the Jewish community, Jarrod Bernstein, left for the…
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Fast Forward Trial of Most-Wanted Nazi Killer Laszlo Csatary Halted in Hungary
Video: Nate Lavey Citing double jeopardy, a Hungarian court suspended the trial of war criminal Laszlo Csatary three weeks after its start in Budapest. In suspending the trial on Monday, the Metropolitan Tribunal of Budapest said Csatary, 98, already may have been convicted and sentenced for some of the crimes attributed to him, the Hungarian…
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Fast Forward 3,000-Year-Old Sphinx Unearthed in Israel
Archaeologists in northern Israel have discovered an Egyptian sphinx thought to date back at least three millennia. Unearthed on Tuesday, the sphinx, according to AFP, bears a dedication to the Egyptian ruler Mycerinus, who ruled circa 2500 B.C.E. and built one of the three pyramids at Giza. Researchers estimate that the sphinx arrived at its…
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Fast Forward Natan Sharansky and Ronald Lauder Call for Reform at Claims Conference
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder called on the Claims Conference to be reviewed by outside agencies in an investigation following the disclosure of a $57 million fraud scheme. Sharansky and Lauder, according to the Jerusalem Post, released a joint statement on the first day of the Claims Conference…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Shows Rockets in Gaza Stadium to Soccer Boss Sepp Blatter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the president of the international soccer federation proof that Palestinian soccer fields have been used to launch rockets at Israel. Netanyahu met Tuesday with FIFA President Joseph Blatter a day after Blatter visited sites in the West Bank, including the opening of the new offices of the Palestine Football…
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Fast Forward New King of Holland Visits Amsterdam Jewish Center
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands visited the offices of the Jewish Community of Amsterdam for the first time since his coronation in April. The visit by Willem-Alexander to the representative organ of the city’s Jewish community, known by the Dutch acronym NIHS, came less than three months after his coronation, in which he replaced his…
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Fast Forward Edward Snowden Says Israel and U.S. Created Anti-Iran Stuxnet Computer VIrus
Whistleblower Edward Snowden told a German magazine that Israel and the United States created the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed nuclear centrifuges in Iran. Snowden made the statement as part of an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel in which he answered encrypted questions sent by security software developer Jacob Appelbaum and documentary…
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Fast Forward Mennonite Is Righteous for Saving French Jews
Lois Gunden, an American Mennonite who helped save Jewish children in France during the Holocaust, was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. The Israeli Holocaust memorial made the announcement on Monday. Gunden becomes the fourth American to be named a Righteous Gentile. Gunden will be honored posthumously at a ceremony to take…
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