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Fast Forward Joe Biden Hits Back at Romney on Israel
Vice President Joe Biden and Mitt Romney continued their respective campaigns’ sparring over Israel. In a speech Tuesday in Reno, Nev., to the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual conference, Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said President Obama had distanced the United States from Israel. “Even at the United Nations, to the enthusiastic applause of…
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Fast Forward European Rabbis Will Fight Circumcision Bans
The Conference of European Rabbis will lobby against recent circumcision bans by advocating legislation supporting the practice. This week, hospitals in Switzerland and a province of Austria announced that they would stop allowing ritual circumcision. The German lower house of parliament passed a non-binding resolution last week to protect the religious circumcision of infant boys…
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Fast Forward Widows of Munich Victims Plan Moment of Silence
Widows of Israelis murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics are asking the crowd at the opening ceremonies of the London Games to stand for a minute of silence, regardless of whether the International Olympic Committee recognizes it. “He told us that when he heard the explosions in the Olympic village, he debated whether to continue…
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Fast Forward Romney Raises $1.5M From Jewish Donors
Mitt Romney raised $1.5 million at a dinner for Jewish supporters in Los Angeles. Romney addressed a $50,000-a-couple dinner in Bel Air on July 23, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported. The dinner capped a day of California fundraising for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that brought in $10 million. The Journal quoted donors attending…
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Fast Forward Obama Names 7 to Holocaust Council
President Obama named or renamed seven members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, all donors to Democrats and including representatives from the entertainment, social media and human rights sectors, as well as a past AIPAC president. In a release Tuesday, Obama named Tom Bernstein to another five year term; Bernstein, a major fundraiser for Obama’s…
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The Schmooze Iran Nuke Scientists Get Heavy Metal Blast
An Iranian nuclear scientist complained to a cybersecurity expert via email that the AC/DC song “Thunderstruck” was playing from computers at two of the country’s nuclear facilities. According to the Times of Israel, computers at the Nantaz and Fordo facilities blasted the heavy metal song at full volume in the middle of the night last…
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Fast Forward Expert: Study Overhyped N.Y. Orthodox Population
A leading Jewish demographer is disputing the findings of a recent widely cited survey on New York Jewry. Len Saxe, a demographer at Brandeis University, told the New York Jewish Week that the survey overestimated the number of Orthodox Jews in the city. He agreed with the finiding that the city’s overall Jewish population has…
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Fast Forward Jewish Museum Exhibits Rare Medieval Manuscripts
The Jewish Museum in New York is opening an exhibit featuring medieval religious manuscripts, many on display for the first time. The manuscripts come from the Bodleian Library at Oxford College in England, and include ancient copies of the Bible, the Gospels and other works, according to Reuters. Included in the exhibit will be the…
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