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Fast Forward Mitt Romney Says ‘No Daylight’ With Bibi
Mitt Romney has said that he and Benjamin Netanyahu would employ the same “test” for Iran’s nuclear program, but that a strike was “a long way” off. Speaking to CNN on Oct. 9, the US Republican presidential candidate said: “My own test is that Iran should not have the capability of producing a nuclear weapon….
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Fast Forward Hugo Chavez Reelection Worries Jewish Leaders
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez won re-election, defeating Henrique Capriles Radonsky, the grandson of Holocaust survivors Chavez took 54.42 percent of the votes to Radonsky’s 45 percent in the Oct. 7 poll, his term will end in 2019. Chavez, a known friend of Iran, become a leading figure in modern Latin American history and will extend…
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Fast Forward Money Man Blows $65K on High-End Dating
A New York securities trader who has spent more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services is calling them a “rip-off,” the New York Post reported. Millionaire Larry Greenfield, 47, of Long Island, told the newspaper that he has tried six different agencies in the last 12 years and has gone on dates with 250 women,…
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Fast Forward Obama Led From ‘Behind’ on Mideast, Mitt Says
President Obama has led “from behind” on the Middle East, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged in a foreign policy speech. Romney, in a speech Monday at the Virginia Military Institute, said the attacks last month in Libya that left four American diplomats dead “were the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose…
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Fast Forward French Jew Scoops Physics Nobel Prize
Serge Haroche, a French-Jewish physicist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with David Wineland from the United States. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 went to the scientists “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems,” the website of the Nobel Prize said. According to the BBC, the…
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Fast Forward Church Leaders Slam U.S. ‘Unconditional’ Israel Aid
Fifteen leaders of U.S. churches and other faith-based organizations have asked Congress to reevaluate U.S. military aid to Israel. The religious leaders sent a letter to Congress members on Monday, calling for an investigation into possible violations by Israel of the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, which would make…
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Fast Forward Slovenia May Vote To Ban Kosher Slaughter
Slovenia’s National Assembly is set to vote on a proposed ban on all ritual slaughter, which the European Union member country’s government recently submitted for approval. Estonia, meanwhile, has reportedly imposed new restrictions on its already stringent slaughter policy. Dr. Igor Vojtic, a member of the executive board of Slovenia’s Jewish community, told JTA that…
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Fast Forward Belgian Jewish Leader Branded ‘Enemy of Islam’
Belgian Health Minister Laurette Onkelinx has complained to police about a pamphlet naming a Jewish member of her party an “enemy of Islam.” The Turkish-language pamphlet called Yves Goldstein, an associate of Onkelinx and fellow member of the Socialist Party, “an active Zionist and an enemy of Islam,” Onkelinx said at a news conference on…
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