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Fast Forward Solar Pioneer Featured on CNN’s ‘Going Green’
Israeli entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz will be featured as an environmental pioneer on the CNN series “Going Green.” Abramowitz, 48, is a founder of the Arava Power Company at Kibbutz Ketura, which is home to a 4.95-megawatt, medium-sized photovoltaic field. He made aliyah from the Boston area in 2006; Abramowitz had volunteered on the kibbutz 30…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Will Skip Olympics Over Shabbat
Israeli President Shimon Peres canceled his participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London after failing to find a way to attend the opening ceremony without desecrating the Jewish Sabbath. The opening ceremony begins on a Friday, July 27, before Shabbat starts, but will end well after the onset of the holy day. Though Peres…
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Fast Forward Amy Winehouse’s Family To Light Mourning Candle
The family of Amy Winehouse will mark the first anniversary of the singer’s death using Jewish tradition, a British magazine reported, quoting the singer’s mother. Janis Winehouse told HELLO! Magazine that the family will mark the anniversary quietly together with prayers and the lighting of a yahrzeit candle. Amy Winehouse, who was Jewish, died on…
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Fast Forward Campaign Stokes Memory of Argentina Bombing
An annual campaign to remember the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Buenos Aires Jewish center calls on the public to “feed the memory.” The campaign launched this week to commemorate the July 18, 1994 bombing that destroyed the AMIA building, killing 85 and injuring hundreds, calls on Food Factory chef Tomas Kalika to share his…
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Fast Forward U.S. Diplomat Assures Egypt on Aid
On his way to another round in the U.S.-Israel strategic dialogue, deputy U.S. Secretary of State, William Burns met with the new Egyptian president and said the United States was “fully committed” to assistance for Egypt. “The United States will do all we can to help ensure a successful transition in Egypt, which offers the…
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Fast Forward White House Blasts Israeli Report on Occupation
The Obama administration criticized an Israeli panel finding that West Bank settlements are legal under international law. “We do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity and we oppose any effort to legalize settlement outposts,” State Department Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters Monday evening in answer to a question about the Levy committee…
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Fast Forward Polish Righteous Gentiles Honored by Israel
At twin ceremonies Israel honored non-Jewish Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and who have preserved Jewish memory since World War II. Israeli ambassador to Poland Zvi Rav-Ner on June 8 recognized five Polish women as Righteous Gentiles for risking their lives to save Jews during the Shoah. To date, about 6,400 Poles have…
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Fast Forward Shelley Berkley Probed Over Kidney Program
The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee launched an investigation into pro-Israel Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.), potentially complicating her bid for the U.S. Senate. The investigation announced Monday, and backed by both Democrats and Republicans on the committee, will focus on allegations that Berkley’s championing of kidney care benefitted her husband, a leading kidney specialist…
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