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Fast Forward Jewish Rower Wins for New Zealand
New Zealand won its first gold medal of the London Olympics when rowers Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan took first place in the men’s double sculls event. Cohen, who is Jewish, previously won gold in the men’s double sculls event in both the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships. He also is the first person…
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Fast Forward French Jews Slam Pig-in-Mosque Desecration
French Jewish leaders are calling the tossing of two pig heads into a mosque not far from Toulouse “an odious desecration.” Worshippers at the Salam mosque in Montauban in southern France discovered two pig heads at the entrance to the building yesterday. On March 15, Muslim extremist Mohammed Merah murdered two French soldiers in the…
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Fast Forward Israelis Warned To Leave Sinai
Israeli authorities warned Israelis to return immediately from the Sinai peninsula, citing a terrorist threat. “From information at our disposal, it arises that terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and additional elements are actively planning to perpetrate terrorist attacks, especially abductions, against Israeli tourists in Sinai in the immediate term,” said a warning issued Thursday…
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Fast Forward Olympics Chief May Take Heat on Munich
Jewish speakers are expected to criticize International Olympics Committee president when he attends a memorial ceremony for Israeli coaches and athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Monday’s service, which is a Jewish community event, has created a “dilemma” for organizers, according to the London Jewish Chronicle. IOC president Jacques Rogge refused international appeals including…
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Fast Forward Israel Lacks Backing for Strike: Ex-Army Chief:
A former head of the Israel Defense Forces military intelligence said that his country lacks the international “legitimacy” needed to succeed in an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. The timing for an Israeli strike “is not now since, even if it is successful, it will ruin the legitimacy that is needed,” Aharon Ze’evi Frakash told…
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Fast Forward 10-Year-Old Girl Converts — Without Permission
A British judge has allowed a 10-year-old Jewish child to convert to Christianity against her mother’s wishes. In November 2011 the mother of the girl applied for a court order to prevent the father from having the girl baptized until the girl turned 16, according to the London Jewish Chronicle. The mother argued the girl…
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Fast Forward Sale of Cleveland Browns Ends Jewish Ownership
The sale of the Cleveland Browns ends 51 years of Jewish ownership of the National Football League team. The Browns sale to Jimmy Haslam III was confirmed by the NFL Network yesterday, according to the Cleveland Jewish News. Randy Lerner had inherited the team after his father Al died in 2002. In 1996, Art Modell,…
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Fast Forward Bibi Heckler Settles Suit Over Assault
A peace activist and the man she accused of assault as she protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress reached a settlement on her lawsuit. Attorneys for Rachel Abileah, an activist with Codepink, and her alleged assaulter, Stanley Shulster of Oregon, refused to comment on details of the settlement. Shulster, 73, told JTA…
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