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Fast Forward Could Israel Paté Ban Boost Kosher Enemies?
A senior rabbi from Paris has warned Israel’s agriculture minister that legislation in Israel to ban the import of goose liver could jeopardize kosher slaughter in Europe. “Imagine how it will look if Israel itself is the first to ban the import of goose liver, which was an issue raised by these animal welfare groups…
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Fast Forward Israeli Magician and Psychic Was CIA Spy, Says New Documentary
The Israeli magician and psychic Uri Geller worked as a CIA spy, according to a new documentary. “The Secret Life of Uri Geller-Psychic Spy,” by Vikram Jayanti, says Geller used his powers against Russia, including erasing Soviet floppy discs and changing the mind of an unnamed Russian leader in order to convince him to sign…
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Fast Forward Suspected of Spying for Israel, Man Jailed in Egypt
Egyptian state prosecutors have imprisoned a man suspected of spying for Israel. The man was ordered held in prison for 15 days pending an investigation, the state-run MENA news agency reported Saturday. He is accused of working for Israel’s Mossad secret intelligence service since 2011. The alleged spy reportedly tried to disassociate himself from the…
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Fast Forward Italian Righteous Gentile Put on Path To Sainthood by Church
An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church. Odoardo Focherini was beatified – the step before sainthood – at a ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Carpi, near Modena…
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Fast Forward Chabad Document Trove Dispute Settled, Putin Says
The transfer of a number of Jewish texts claimed by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to Moscow’s newly opened Jewish museum should put to rest a dispute with the movement and the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “For the Jewish people, Russia has been a homeland for centuries, as it remains so today,” the Reuters…
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Fast Forward Nazi Killer Found After Hiding in Plain Sight
A man suspected of being a Ukrainian Nazi with links to murders during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other massacres has been living in Minnesota for over 50 years, according to evidence recently uncovered. The Associated Press reported on Friday that Michael Karkoc, 94, entered the U.S. after lying to immigration authorities in 1949 that…
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Fast Forward Jewish Senators Clash on NSA Snooping Scandal
Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden have a lot in common. Both are longtime U.S. senators, Democrats, Jewish and fiercely independent West coasters. They’ve also both been members of the Senate Intelligence Committee since before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and privy to classified materials that describe how the government systematized radical changes in intelligence gathering…
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Fast Forward Meir Soloveichik Takes Helm at Shearith Israel
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, the scion of a revered rabbinic family, is the new spiritual leader of the country’s oldest Sephardic synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel. The synagogue, also known as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, announced the hire in a news release June 10. Soloveichik is the grandson of Ahron Soloveichik and the great-nephew of Joseph…
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