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Fast Forward Dutch City Returns Two Cemeteries to Jews
The city of Vlissingen in the Netherlands has returned two Jewish cemeteries to the region’s Jewish community. Vlissingen took possession of the cemeteries after the Jewish community was destroyed in the Holocaust. The land was signed over last week to the Jewish community of Zeeland – the district to which Vlissingen belongs – at an…
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Fast Forward Obama Calls for Unity in Rosh Hashanah Message
President Obama delivered an appeal for reconciliation in his Rosh Hashanah message. “At a time when our public discourse can too often seem harsh; when society too often focuses on what divides us instead of what unites us; I hope that Americans of all faiths can take this opportunity to reach out to those who…
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Fast Forward British Chief Rabbi Slams ‘God Delusion’ Author
Britain’s chief rabbi has accused the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins of relying on an anti-Semitic view of the Bible in his recent book. Speaking at a debate filmed by the BBC earlier this month in Salford, Sacks said that a remark in Dawkins’s best-selling book “The God Delusion” was based on “centuries of prejudice.” “I…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden’s Rosh Hashanah Greeting
At a Rosh Hashanah reception at his residence, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said “there is no daylight” between the United States and Israel when it comes to Iran. Biden, in a short address before the reception Wednesday on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington, reaffirmed the Obama administration’s commitment to Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Demjanjuk Citizenship Appeal Rejected by Court
A U.S. appeals court dismissed a request to help posthumously restore U.S. citizenship to convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s estate had asked the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to take up the case. In June, a three-judge panel of the court had ruled that Demjanjuk’s U.S. citizenship cannot be…
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Fast Forward Egyptian Christian Says He Made Anti-Islam Film
He’s not a Jew. At least, that’s the latest on the man behind the anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims,” that has fueled attacks on U.S. diplomatic installations in Libya, Egypt and Yemen, leaving the U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, dead. The filmmaker appears to be an Egyptian Christian rather than an Israeli Jew,…
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Fast Forward Warren Weinstein Asks Bibi To Win Release
Kidnapped American Warren Weinstein called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help free him from his al-Qaida captors. The plea from Weinstein, 71, was included in a video released by al-Qaida late Wednesday night. “As a Jew, I am appealing to you, Prime Minister Netanyahu, the head of the Jewish State of Israel, as…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Says He Had ‘Good’ Chat With Obama
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his one-hour, late-night phone call with President Obama was “a good conversation.” “We spoke about our common goal of stopping Iran from developing its nuclear weapons program, and our desire to closely coordinate our efforts,” Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post. Though Netanyahu would not give details of the conversation…
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