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Fast Forward Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Blasts Holocaust Remembrance as ‘Unacceptable’
The Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party has questioned the country marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, calling it “unacceptable.” In a question posed in the Greek Parliament last week, Golden Dawn lawmaker Ioannis Lagos asked the Education and Interior ministers why state institutions and schools where commemorating Jan. 27th. “We have received complaints that on this…
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Fast Forward Sex Study Finds Circumcision Reduces Men’s Pleasure
A new medical study in Belgium suggests circumcised men experience less intense sexual pleasure and orgasm than uncircumcised counterparts. The study by Dr. Piet Hoebeke from Ghent University Hospital surveyed 1,369 men over the age of 18, who responded to leaflets handed out in train stations across Belgium, the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Neieuws reported…
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Fast Forward Paul Goma, Romanian Author Accused of Anti-Semitism, Gets Nobel Nod
A writer’s association in Moldova reportedly has nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of writing anti-Semitic texts, for the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Paul Goma’s claims to fame is only by denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts and anti-Semitic attacks,” Iosif Belous, vice president of the East European Association of Former Prisoners of Ghettos…
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Fast Forward Is Pope Frontrunner From Honduras Anti-Semitic?
] In a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that one of the leading candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI is an anti-Semite. Responding to a list published last week after the resignation of Benedict, which identified Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras as a possible…
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Fast Forward Chuck Hagel Faces New Jewish Snag Over Israel ‘Adjunct’ Comment
Two centrist Jewish groups called for further review of Chuck Hagel’s record in light of an account of a 2007 speech in which he allegedly said the State Department acted as an “adjunct” of Israel’s foreign ministry. Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, has the support of a majority of senators, but confirmation of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Barred From French Parliament
The Constitutional Council of France has nullified the recent election of Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou, a French-Israeli citizen, to the National Assembly. Poznanski-Benhamou, believed to be the first Israeli citizen elected to the French parliament, was declared ineligible because she exceeded restrictions on campaign funding, the council said in a statement on its website. French law does…
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News Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spread Into Once-Black Brooklyn Neighborhoods
If you’re looking to move to an apartment on or near Park Avenue, be prepared to break open the piggy bank. Prices are higher than ever and developers are squabbling over construction rights. That’s Park Avenue, Brooklyn – not its swankier Manhattan namesake. For decades, this derelict corner of New York’s most populous borough was…
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Fast Forward Several Reported Wounded in Riots in Support of Jailed Palestinians
Several people were injured in West Bank protests staged in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly wounded on Feb. 15 near Baytuniya checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Several hundred protesters pelted the checkpoint with stones and other objects, the news site Ynet reported. Several of the demonstrators were also wounded…
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