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Fast Forward Brazilian Cartoonist Hits Back Over ‘Anti-Semitism’
A well-known Brazilian cartoonist hit back at the Simon Wiesenthal Center for including him on its top-ten slur list. Carlos Latuff recently published a cartoon of the center’s founder, Rabbi Marvin Hier, awarding Latuff a medal in response to the center’s publication in December of a list of the top ten anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slurs…
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Fast Forward Egypt Intercepts Missile Shipment Bound for Gaza
Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula reportedly intercepted a shipment of American-made missiles destined for the Gaza Strip. After receiving intelligence on the weapons shipment, the Egyptian Interior Ministry raided a location south of El-Arish, Ma’an, the Palestinian news agency, reported on Friday. According to the report, security forces discovered six U.S.-manufactured missiles being…
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Fast Forward Irwin Groner, Conservative Rabbi, Dies at 81
Rabbi Irwin Groner, a former president of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, has died. Groner, who led Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Detroit for more than four decades, died Dec. 30 at a hospital in that city. He was 81 and suffered from Parkinson’s disease. He guided the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis,…
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Fast Forward Jews Praise Fiscal Cliff Resolution
While not totally satisfied with the results, many Jewish groups have come out in support of Congress’ last minute efforts to reach a fiscal cliff deal. Linda Slucker, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, said her organization welcomed the part of the deal that protects Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while extending unemployment…
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Fast Forward 8 Win Israel’s Wolf Awards
Seven scientists and an architect have been named recipients of Israel’s prestigious 2013 Wolf Prizes. The $100,000 prizes, which will be presented in May by Israeli President Shimon Peres during a special Knesset session, were announced Wednesday in Jerusalem by Israeli Minister of Education and Wolf Foundation Council Chair Gideon Sa’ar. The prizes are awarded…
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Fast Forward Bulgaria ID’s Suspect in Israeli Terror Bomb
Bulgaria’s security services reportedly have discovered the identity of one of the perpetrators of the July bombing in Burgas, which killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. The Bulgarian news agency Novinite reported on Thursday that the discovery was the first time Bulgarian authorities tracked down an individual suspect, as the bomber and another accomplice are…
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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva in Mass. Needs $472K To Survive
A Chabad-affiliated yeshiva in Worcester, Mass., has launched a last-ditch effort to prevent its imminent closure. The Yeshiva Academy is hoping to raise $472,000 in donations before Friday, when the building in which it is housed will be auctioned off by the Internal Revenue Service. By Wednesday afternoon, the academy had raised $35,564 in online…
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Music Hitler’s Jewish Neighbor Remembers When
A former Jewish neighbor of Adolf Hitler in Munich has co-authored a book describing his childhood brushes with the dictator. Edgar Feuchtwanger, 88, has joined forces with French journalist Bertil Scali to write “Hitler, mon voisin, souvenirs d’un enfant juif,” or “My Neighbor Hitler: memories of a Jewish child.” The 320-page book is due out…
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