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Fast Forward JNF to Distribute Christmas Trees
The Jewish National Fund will distribute free Christmas trees to local churches, monasteries, convents, embassies and foreign journalists. Private individuals can also buy trees for a token fee, the organization said this week. Distribution will occur in mid-December. Some of the Arizona cypress trees are grown in a grove adjacent to the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Appeal to U.N. Over E1 Plans
The Palestinians appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel from making plans to build 3,000 apartments in a controversial area outside of Jerusalem. In a letter to the Security Council, the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. secretary-general, the Palestinian representative to the United Nations said the announced plans represent “Israel’s contemptuous…
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Fast Forward Forbes: Netanyahu 23rd Most Powerful Person
President Obama for the second straight year was named the world’s most powerful person by Forbes magazine, which placed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 23rd on the list. The list includes 71 individuals – one for every 100 million people on the planet. Other notable Jews on the list included Ben Bernake, chairman of the…
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Fast Forward URJ Raps Israel Settlement Plan, Palestinian U.N. Move
The Union for Reform Judaism criticized Israel for its decision to build new settlement housing and the Palestinians for unilaterally seeking upgraded status at the United Nations. The newly adopted policy statement was adopted overwhelmingly on Sunday following a debate at the group’s board of trustees meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. More than 200 board…
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Fast Forward 4 Jewish Dems in Top House Committee Slots
Four Jewish Democrats kept or earned top slots on U.S. House of Representatives committees. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) preserved his top slot on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, as did Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) on the Energy Committee, after the caucus’ standing committee announced its selections on Tuesday. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) ascended to…
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Fast Forward Gallery Defends Art Made of Holocaust Victims’ Ashes
A Swedish art gallery owner has defended his gallery’s decision to show a painting made out of Holocaust victims’ ashes as “having no moral flaws.” Martin Bryder, who owns a gallery in Lund, told Sverige Radio that he “sees no moral problem or flaw with exhibiting” a painting which the artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff…
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Fast Forward Cuba Rejects U.N. Ruling on Alan Gross
Cuba reacted angrily on Wednesday to a U.N. ruling that its imprisonment of American contractor Alan Gross was arbitrary and accused the United States of lying about his health. Josefina Vidal, a Foreign Ministry official, said Cuba received a copy of the yet to be published decision by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention…
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Fast Forward Would-be Bomber of N.Y. Synagogues Pleads Guilty
A man charged with planning to blow up synagogues in New York City pleaded guilty to the state charges against him. Ahmed Ferhani, 27, an Algerian immigrant living in New York, entered the plea Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court. It is the first conviction under a state terror statute that went into effect…
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