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Fast Forward Congressman’s Widow Battles for His Seat
Before Shelley Adler can reclaim her late husband’s congressional seat, she will have to get by a former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman. Adler, a Democrat, is running in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District against incumbent Rep. Jon Runyan, the former pro football player who unseated her husband, John, during the Republicans’ 2010 midterm election surge….
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Fast Forward French Jew Beaten Unconscious in Subway
A Jewish man was attacked and rendered unconscious in a Paris metro, a local watchdog reported. The 52-year-old victim entered the subway directly from his synagogue but wore no markings that would identify him as Jewish, according to a report on the late September incident by the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA,…
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Israel News El Al Crash Still Spawns Conspiracy Theories
Chemical weapons, nuclear debris and Mossad agents in biohazard suits all have played prominent roles in the dozens of conspiracy theories surrounding the crash of an El Al airplane here 20 years ago this month. But Rob Oudkerk, vice chairman of the Dutch parliament’s inquiry into the deadly crash, has studied and dismissed them all….
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Fast Forward Specter Helped Pass Obama Health Bill
Arlen Specter, the longtime moderate Jewish Republican senator from Pennsylvania whose surprise party switch helped pass President Obama’s health-care reforms, has died. Specter, 82, died Sunday at his Philadelphia home following a long struggle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, his family told The Associated Press. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania in 1980,…
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Fast Forward Jews Congratulate Europe on Nobel Peace Prize
Israel and Jewish organizations congratulated the European Union for being awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. “The exemplary success of the E.U. in establishing peace in Europe after two world wars is an inspiration to the whole family of nations. The European Union crystallizes the way of reason and compromise through which nations can overcome…
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News French Still Hunt Kosher Store Bomb Suspects
French authorities have indicted seven suspects in the recent bombing of a kosher store near Paris but have not caught those who hurled the bomb, a Paris prosecutor said. Francois Molins of the Paris public prosecutor’s office said on Saturday that seven suspects have been indicted for belonging to a terrorist association and that two…
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Fast Forward Australian Charity Accused of Aiding Gaza Radicals
An Israeli legal group is threatening to sue an Australian charity unless it stops funding a Palestinian not-for-profit organization alleged to be “an active arm” of a terror group proscribed under Australian law. Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center that aims to “bankrupt terrorism” through the courts, alleges that World Vision Australia has been indirectly…
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Sides With Hebron Settlers
Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, has reportedly ordered authorities to allow the Jewish owners of a building in Hebron to move into it. According to Haaretz, Barak on Thursday ordered the Civil Administration – a military body responsible for civilian matters in Israeli-controlled West Bank territory – to transfer the eastern Hebron building known locally…
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