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Fast Forward Maker of Anti-Islam Film Gets Year in Prison
An Egyptian Christian man who is one of the key figures behind an anti-Islam film that sparked violence in the Middle East and throughout the world was sentenced to prison. Mark Basseley Youssef, also known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, who reportedly wrote and produced “Innocence of Muslims,” was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court…
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Fast Forward Carmen Warschaw, Calif. Democrat, Dies at 95
Carmen Warschaw, a national and California state Democratic leader and philanthropist, has died. She died on Election Day, Nov. 6, in Los Angeles of natural causes at the age of 95. A daughter of immigrants, she was born in Arcadia, Calif. and was a lifelong resident of the Los Angeles area. U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein…
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Fast Forward Accused Jewish School Abuser Faces Extradition
A judge in the United States has cleared the way for the extradition to Australia of a man wanted in connection with alleged child sex abuse at a Jewish school. David Kramer, 51, a dual Israeli-American national, is accused of sexually abusing pupils at the Yeshivah College in Melbourne between 1989 and 1993. A judge…
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Fast Forward Delmon Young Admits Anti-Semitic Hotel Rant
Baseball star Delmon Young pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to an incident in New York in which he yelled anti-Semitic slurs. Young, 27, who played this season with the American League champion Detroit Tigers, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court to 10 days of community service on a charge of aggravated harassment in…
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Fast Forward Israelis Ponder Meaning of Four More Years
Most Israelis were asleep as the polls closed in America and voters waited for the results, but on one rooftop in central Tel Aviv a party with loud classic rock music and flashing lights was going strong. It was the pro-Obama election-watching party of Israel’s left-wing Meretz party. Deviating from a solidly anti-Obama consensus in…
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Fast Forward Fresh Faces Among 32 Jews in New Congress
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is no closer to having a minyan. The majority leader will remain the sole Jewish member of his party’s caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a generally rough night for Republicans, the party’s top Jewish congressional prospects all went down to defeat to Democrats. In Ohio, state Treasurer Josh…
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Fast Forward Kantor Wins New Term Leading Europe Jewry
The incumbent president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, was re-elected to serve another four years. Sixty out of 86 representatives of European Jewish communities voted for Kantor at the EJC general assembly meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, and 22 voted for Richard Prasquier, the president of the umbrella group of France’s Jewish communities,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Congratulates Obama on Election Win
Israeli leaders congratulated President Obama on his reelection. “The strategic alliance between Israel and the U.S. is stronger than ever,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a short statement issued Wednesday morning in Israel shortly after Obama delivered his victory speech. “I will continue to work with President Obama in order to assure the interests…
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