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Fast Forward Amazon.com Drops Jigsaw Puzzle of Dachau
The American online retailer Amazon.com has stopped selling a jigsaw puzzle featuring the Dachau Nazi concentration camp following complaints. The puzzle has 252 parts that together form a picture of the camp. Before it was taken offline Oct. 1, the product description said the toy was intended for customers eight years old and above. It…
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Fast Forward Jewish Gravestones Recovered From River in Poland
Pieces of Jewish gravestones found at the bottom of Poland’s longest river have been returned to a Jewish cemetery. The 17 gravestone pieces from the Jewish cemetery in the Brodno district were found at the bottom of the Vistula River, which is at a record low water level due to drought. In addition to the…
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Fast Forward Cuban Jewish Leaders Visit Alan Gross
Two Cuban Jewish leaders visited jailed American contractor Alan Gross and said they found him in “good spirits.” Adela Dworin, head of Cuba’s Jewish community, and David Prinstein, president of the Patronato Synagogue and Jewish community vice president, spent two hours with Gross on Sept. 27 in the military hospital where he is imprisoned, according…
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Fast Forward New Israeli Envoy to Vatican Takes Post
Zion Evrony has taken up his post as Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See. Evrony, who was appointed to the post in July, presented his Letters of Credence to Pope Benedict XVI at an audience with the pontiff last Friday. He was born in Iran in 1949 but made aliyah as a baby. The career…
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Fast Forward Obama Enacts Visa Program For Religious Workers
President Obama enacted a three-year extension to a visa program for religious workers. Obama on Sept. 28 signed the law, passed by Congress with overwhelming margins earlier in September, extending the Special Immigrant Non-Minister Religious Worker Program until Sept. 30, 2015. The legislation, first passed in 1990, has a built-in sunset provision and has been…
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Fast Forward Cuban Jewish Leaders Visit Alan Gross
Two Cuban Jewish leaders visited jailed American contractor Alan Gross and said they found him in “good spirits.” Adela Dworin, head of Cuba’s Jewish Community, and David Prinstein, president of the Patronato Synagogue and Jewish community vice president, spent two hours with Gross on Sept. 27 in the military hospital where he is imprisoned, according…
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Fast Forward Israel Disappointed By Argentinean/Iran Meeting
Israel expressed “disappointment” over the Argentinean decision to accept an Iranian invitation to bilateral talks. “The Government of Israel received with great disappointment the news about the Argentine acceptance of a meeting with the Islamic Republic of Iran on a Foreign Ministers level. Iran does not come with clean hands to this dialogue about global…
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Fast Forward Soros Pledges $1M to Obama Super PAC
Billionaire George Soros has pledged $1 million to a Super PAC supporting President Obama. The donation reported over the weekend by the New York Times will go to Priorities USA Action. The donation reportedly was announced Sept. 27 at a luncheon held by the Democracy Alliance, a group of liberal donors, by Michael Vachon, a…
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