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Fast Forward Two Lawmakers Meet With Jacob Ostreicher
Two members of Congress met in Bolivia with an American-Jewish businessman who has been jailed there without charges for 18 months. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) arrived late last week to seek the release of Jacob Ostreicher, a haredi Orthodox father of five and grandfather of 11 from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has…
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Fast Forward Bar Refaeli Ripped for Donning Santa Suit
Bar Refaeli is getting heat again — this time for a picture showing the Israeli model in a Santa suit. Refaeli posted the photo last week on her Instagram account with the caption “Good Morning Santa,” according to Shalom Life. The hat is drawn over her eyes; Shalom Life said “it’s safe to assume that…
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Fast Forward Temporary Draft Exemption for Yeshiva Students
Israel’s Cabinet approved a temporary exemption for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students from the military draft. The exemption, passed Sunday in the wake of the expiration of the Tal Law that had allowed haredi men to defer army service, provides a framework for the yeshiva students to join the National Service program in place of being…
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Fast Forward Olmert: I’m Not Re-entering Politics
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told an Israeli television news magazine that he decided not to run in the upcoming elections due to rifts in the Center-Left political camp. Olmert, former head of the Kadima Party, also threw his support behind current Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz, during an interview Saturday night on Israel…
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Fast Forward Israeli ‘Spy Vulture’ Caught in Sudan
Several Middle Eastern media reported that Sudan captured a vulture which the country’s officials say Israel fitted with spy equipment. According to the online edition of the Egyptian daily El Balad, the vulture was captured in the town of Kereinek in the Darfur region in Sudan’s west and that the finding prompted Sudanese authorities to…
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Fast Forward Only Day School in New Zealand Capital Closes
The only Jewish day school in New Zealand’s capital city closed after 25 years in operation. Moriah School in Wellington held its last graduation on Dec. 7, citing a lack of resources. In August, the board said it had “no option” but to close the school, which had less than 20 pupils aged between five…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Hamas’s Gaza Jubilation Proves Israel Is at Risk
Hamas’s vow to vanquish Israel after claiming “victory” in last month’s Gaza conflict vindicates Israel’s reluctance to relinquish more land to the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement, made a defiant speech before thousands of supporters in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, promising to…
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Fast Forward Meshaal Vows To Never Recognize Israel
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, making his first ever visit to the Gaza Strip, vowed on Saturday never to recognise Israel and said his Islamist group would never abandon its claim to all Israeli territory. “Palestine is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north. There will be no concession…
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