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Fast Forward Yair Lapid’s Teary Plea for Convicted Spy Jonathan Pollard’s Freedom
The Jewish Agency in a resolution called on President Obama to grant clemency to spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard. The agency’s Board of Governors passed the resolution unanimously on Tuesday during its annual meeting in Jerusalem calling for Pollard’s release on humanitarian grounds. It notes that Pollard is completing his 28th year of a life sentence in…
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Fast Forward East German Jews Get Last Chance for Property
Jews who owned property in what would become East Germany have a last chance to receive compensation for it. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany published on its website a list of Jews who owned property in eastern Germany before the beginning of the Nazi era. The list, which contains thousands of entries,…
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Fast Forward Larry Cohler-Esses Wins Twersky Award for Hamas Scoop
Larry Cohler-Esses of the Forward won the 2013 David Twersky Journalism Award. The prize was awarded to Cohler-Esses, assistant managing editor of the Forward, for his April 19, 2012 exclusive Cairo interview with Mousa Abu Marzook, Hamas’s second-highest-ranking official. It is the second year that the prize, named for the former editor of the New…
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Fast Forward Australian Jews Hope Israeli Probe Ends ‘Rumors’ of Mossad Spy Prisoner X
Australian Jewry’s highest body broke its silence on the mysterious death of Ben Zygier, a dual Australian-Israel national who apparently committed suicide in a maximum-security Israeli prison in 2010. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry issued a statement Tuesday welcoming the announcements by the Australian and Israeli governments of further inquiries into Zygier’s death, one…
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Fast Forward Argentina’s Jewish Foreign Minister Defends Iran Terror Probe Deal
Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timerman, defended himself against accusations that he betrayed his Judaism by signing an agreement with Iran. “I did not betray my Judaism in the pact with Iran because we are trying to solve the AMIA bombing case,” Timerman said Monday during an interview with La Red radio. “The move was inspired…
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Fast Forward U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice Tells Jewish Teens To Be ‘Impatient’ for Change
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice charged teens at BBYO’s International Convention to “get impatient with the way things are so you can dream of the ways things can be.” Rice, the U.S. envoy to the world body, addressed some 1,700 Jewish teens, staff and community leaders on Feb. 15. The teens dispersed to 34 service sites…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Teen Harasses Woman Who Refused To Sit at Back of Bus
Police reportedly have arrested a haredi Orthodox teen who harassed a woman for not sitting in the back of a bus. Noa Kantman, 22, of Safed, said she was modestly dressed in a skirt when she boarded the Egged bus heading for Ashdod on Feb. 15 and sat in the seat next to the driver….
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Fast Forward Jailed Torture Gang Leader Makes Anti-Semitic Video
The leader of a gang which in 2006 tortured and killed Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, was sentenced to seven more years in prison for making anti-Semitic videos while in jail. On Feb 13., seven years to the day after Ilan Halimi died, a correctional court in Moulins found Youssouf Fofana, head of the Gang…
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