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Fast Forward Shmuley Boteach Loses to Pascrell in New Jersey
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has lost his bid for a congressional seat from New Jersey. The Orthodox rabbi, author and media personality was handily defeated in his effort to unseat Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.). Boteach mounted a longshot run as a Republican in the heavily Democratic northeastern New Jersey district. Pascrell previously had defeated fellow Democratic…
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Fast Forward South Florida Jews Go to Polls at Last
At about 10 a.m. on Election Day, a black sedan pulled up to the polling station at the J.C. Mitchell Elementary School. “He threw Israel under the bus,” said the car’s driver, a chatty silver-haired man, as he helped an elderly woman from the back seat. “You vote your way and I’ll vote mine,” she…
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Fast Forward Serena Williams Hangs Out in Israel
American tennis champion Serena Williams is visiting Israel for a few days. Williams arrived in the country Monday evening and is vacationing in Eilat for the week, Ynet reported. Eilat is known as Israel’s tennis capital and has hosted the European-African zone group of the Fed Cup for the past three years. Williams, who has…
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Fast Forward Israel OK’s Immigration of Tribe From India
Israel’s government approved the immigration of the Bnei Menashe, an Indian tribe that claims Jewish ancestry. The approval comes after a five-year gap since the last group of Bnei Menashe arrived in Israel. Members of the group, who claim descent from the lost tribe of Menashe, must undergo a conversion process even though it is…
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Fast Forward Berlin Jews Hold Drive for Sandy-Hit Kin
A member of Berlin’s Jewish community with family in hard-hit Staten Island, N.Y. has started a clothing drive for those affected by superstorm Sandy. Berliners have been encouraged to bring clothing and small toys to the Chabad center in Berlin on Tuesday and Wednesday. The items will be brought to the American Embassy and Red…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel and Obama Will Co-Author Book
Elie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor and author told an Israeli newspaper. The book, which the two men will resume writing after Tuesday’s presidential election, is “a book of two friends,” Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, told Haaretz. Haaretz reported that Wiesel and Obama became friends in 2009 when…
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Fast Forward Final Push To Rally Jewish Voters
The family wedding. The entrance to the local synagogue. The future of Israel. Your precious grandchild. In the final days of what has been a close and bitterly contested election, it’s not so much that nothing is sacred in the fight for the Jewish vote. It’s that little that is sacred has not been put…
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Fast Forward $5.8M Looted Poster Collection Hits Block
A collection of pre-World War II posters that were returned to the heir of a Jewish dentist who fled the Nazis is going on sale. The more than 4,300 posters collected by Hans Sachs and looted by the Nazis will be auctioned at Guernsey’s in New York on Jan. 18, though the auction house is…
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