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Fast Forward Brooklyn’s Hynes Takes Shot at Orthodox
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes reportedly said that the haredi Orthodox community is the only one in his jurisdiction in which sexual assault victims are harassed and intimidated. Hynes has been under attack for refusing to release the names of accused molesters from Brooklyn’s haredi community. He has been criticized for trying to curry favor…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Back Romney School Voucher Plan
The Orthodox Union welcomed a pledge by presidential candidate Mitt Romney to allow low-income families to use federal dollars to send their children to parochial schools. “Gov. Romney’s proposal to have federal education funds ‘follow the student,’ rather than become mired or diluted in a trickle-down process, is most commendable,” Yehuda Neuberger, the Orthodox umbrella…
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Fast Forward Senate Earmarks $13 Million for Non-Profit Security
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee earmarked $13 million in Homeland Security funds for non-profit institutions next year, $3 million more than in 2012, and increased emergency assistance for the poor.The Obama administration and Congress had cut funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program from $19 million in 2011 to $10 million this year. In addition…
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Fast Forward Romney To Meet With Jewish Donors
Mitt Romney is meeting with about 30 major Jewish donors to his presidential campaign as part of a “constituents day.” Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and all-but-certain Republican nominee for president, will meet for about an hour with the donors in Boston on Thursday. A donor who was invited told JTA that the purpose of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Won’t Shake Hands With Woman
Belgium’s health minister said she was “profoundly troubled” by the behavior of her Israeli counterpart, Yaakov Litzman, after the haredi Orthodox minister refused to shake her hand at a conference. Litzman, Israel’s deputy minister for health, belongs to the haredi Torah Judaism party and considers it forbidden to touch members of the opposite sex. “My…
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Fast Forward Monument to Wallenberg Is Defaced
A monument in Budapest to Raoul Wallenberg was defiled with bloody pigs’ feet. A group of tourists visiting the site Tuesday discovered the defacement, according to the Hungarian media. Pictures showed four or five severed pigs’ feet strung on rope hanging on the statue, one of them positioned by Wallenberg’s head. Budapest authorities promised “immediate…
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Fast Forward Wyoming Candidate Posts Anti-Semitic Video
Thomas Bleming, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wyoming, has posted anti-Semitic videos on his Facebook page. Among Bleming’s postings is a video he labeled “the eternal Jew, updated for 2010.” “The Eternal Jew” is a notorious Nazi propaganda film that described Jews as “parasites” intent on world domination. The video posted by Bleming,…
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Fast Forward Major Powers Start Nuclear Talks With Iran
The major powers launched a new round of talks with Iran on its suspected nuclear weapons program. The sides hope to emerge from the session in Baghdad on Wednesday with the outline of a plan that would lead to increased Iranian transparency in exchange for a degree of relief on sanctions. Iran experts say that…
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