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Fast Forward At Ceremony, Peres Calls for New Peace Push
Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, Israeli President Shimon Peres called for a renewal of peace talks with the Palestinians. “Israel and the Palestinians are ripe today to restart” peace talks, Peres said at the White House ceremony on Wednesday. “A firm basis already exists. A solution of two national states: A…
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Fast Forward Rock-Throwing Settlers Protest Demolitions
Activists threw rocks at contractors inspecting the Ulpana neighbohood in preparation for the evacuation of five apartment buildings there. The inspection came as caravillas, or portable homes, were being delivered Wednesday to a military base adjacent to the community where the evacuees will be housed until their apartments are relocated. The caravillas reportedly were disguised…
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Fast Forward Putin To Visit Israel Despite Syria Split
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to visit Israel, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced. It will be Putin’s first visit to Israel since 2005. No date has been set for the visit, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing the ministry. The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that the visit is set for June 25, and that Putin…
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Fast Forward Giffords Aide Wins Seat in Special Election
Ron Barber, a former aide to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won her seat in a special election. Barber, who decided to run after Giffords formerly resigned her seat earlier this year to recover from a shooting in January 2011, defeated Jesse Kelly, a Republican who suffered a narrow defeat to Giffords in the 2010 election…
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Fast Forward Boteach Invites Pascrell to Shabbat Dinner
Rabbi Shumley Boteach invited his opponent in a New Jersey congressional race to Shabbat dinner. Boteach, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in northern New Jersey’s 9th District, made an open invitation to Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat, asking the veteran lawmaker to join in “the weekly Jewish tradition of a Shabbat…
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Fast Forward Livni Says Kadima Headed for Extinction
Tzipi Livni, former head of the Kadima Party, said that the centrist party will not be in existence by the next Knesset elections. Livni, who stepped down as head of Kadima and as head of the opposition after losing party primaries in March, when asked if Kadima will be part of the next government, which…
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Fast Forward Parents Must Sign Form for Circumcision Rite: Plan
New York health officials have proposed requiring that Jewish parents sign a consent waiver in order to use a controversial circumcision-related rite. At a city Board of Health meeting on Tuesday, the department’s deputy commissioner for disease control proposed that the board require all parents who want direct oral-genital suction, known as metzitzah b’peh, to…
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Fast Forward Sweden’s Tweeter for Week Missteps on Jews
A guest tweeter on Sweden’s official Twitter account raised hackles over some racially charged comments about Jews. Sonja Abrahamsson, 27, who identifies herself as an unemployed single mother from a small Swedish town, immediately apologized for the tweets, saying that she did not mean for her questions to be offensive. “I just don’t get why…
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