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Fast Forward Ben-Ami Kadish, Spy for Israel, Dies at 85
Ben-Ami Kadish, a former civilian employee of the U.S. Army who was arrested at the age of 85 for spying for Israel, has died. No date of death or cause of death was made public, according to the New Jersey Jewish News, citing a funeral home death notice. Kadish, a former U.S. Army mechanical engineer,…
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Fast Forward Most-Wanted Nazi Killer Nabbed in Hungary
A fugitive suspected Nazi war criminal who helped send 15,700 Jews to their deaths was taken into custody by Hungarian police days after being tracked down in Budapest by a British tabloid newspaper. The Sun newspaper on Sunday reported that it had found Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, 97, with the help of information supplied by the Simon…
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Fast Forward Hoopster Jordan Farmar To Play in Turkey
Jordan Farmar was waived by the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and reportedly will continue his professional basketball career in Turkey. Farmar and four other players were traded to Atlanta last week from the Brooklyn Nets. The Jewish point guard reportedly asked the Hawks to buy out his contract, leaving the team room under the salary cap….
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Fast Forward Bibi Expresses Worry Over Hungary Anti-Semitism
At a meeting with Hungarian President Janos Ader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed concern at a “dangerous” resurgence of anti-Semitism in Hungary and called on the Hungarian government to take action. “There is concern in Israel and the Jewish world over a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Hungary,” Netanyahu said Tuesday during the meeting in…
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Fast Forward ADL Slams Replica Wailing Wall as ‘Affront’
The Anti-Defamation League described a plan by evangelical pastors in Kansas to build a replica of the Western Wall as part of an anti-abortion shrine as “an outrageous affront to the Jewish people.” The International Pro-Life Memorial and National Life Center is being planned by anti-abortion activists in Wichita, which is known for its anti-abortion…
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Fast Forward Young Frenchmen Know Little About Holocaust
Most young Frenchmen never heard of the World War II roundup of Paris Jews, a survey shows. The recent survey showed most young French adults were unaware of the deportation of Parisian Jews during the Holocaust. Sixty percent of respondents aged 18 to 24 said they never heard of the Vel d’Hiv Roundup of July…
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Fast Forward Clinton’s ‘Slap in Face’ Rejection of Pollard Plea
Supporters of Jonathan Pollard called Hillary Clinton’s remarks rejecting his possible clemency “a resounding slap in the face” to Israel’s leaders and its people. “With respect to Mr. Pollard, he was convicted of spying in 1987, he was sentenced to life in prison, he is serving that sentence, and I do not have any expectations…
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Fast Forward Iraq Rejects Offer To Split Jewish Archive
Iraq has rejected a U.S. offer to receive half of the country’s Jewish Archives, which were removed from Iraq in 2003 following the U.S. launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The refusal appeared last month in the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah, according to the Press TV news service. The archives, which were discovered in the flooded basement…
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