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Fast Forward Musician Tamara Brooks, Wife of Bikel, Dies
Tamara Brooks, a noted choral conductor, and the wife and musical partner of singer and actor Theodore Bikel, has died. Brooks, a Julliard-trained pianist and conductor, suffered a heart attack on May 19. She was 70. Brooks had a distinguished career as a conductor and educator who performed around the world. Director of Choral Activities…
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Fast Forward Feds Investigate Mandel Campaign Contributions
Federal authorities are investigating campaign contributions made by employees of an Ohio company to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel. Canton-based business owner Benjamin Suarez may have reimbursed his employees for giving campaign contributions to the campaigns of Mandel and Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio), according to reports in recent days in the New Republic and…
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Fast Forward Austria Renounces Ministry’s Lieberman Insult
Austria’s Foreign Ministry renounced a statement by the country’s defense minister in which he called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s participation in the government “unbearable.” “His statements do not reflect the policies of the Austrian government,” the foreign ministry said in a statement to the Austrian media. In an interview published Sunday in the Austrian…
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Fast Forward Women Detained for Wearing Prayer Shawls at Western Wall
Three women were detained after attempting to pray at the Western Wall in Jewish prayer shawls. The women, part of a group of about 40 from the Women of the Wall group, were praying at the wall Tuesday morning as part of their monthly Rosh Chodesh, or new month, prayer service, the Jerusalem Post reported….
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Fast Forward Gross Advocates Wary About Cuba Spy Deal
Advocates for Alan Gross say talk of a trade with the “Cuban Five” is a non-starter, but acknowledge hopes that the Obama administration will consider lower-level concessions for the five Cuban spies in exchange for Cuban considerations for the jailed American. Insiders say that Gross’ advocates want the U.S. government to consider, among other measures,…
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Fast Forward S. African Envoy Summoned Over Labelling Flap
Israel’s Foreign Ministry summoned the South African ambassador to Israel over the publication of a notice announcing a ban on labeling as Israeli products that originate from the West Bank. Ismail Coovadia was scheduled to visit the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Monday; no announcement was made by that night on whether such a meeting…
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Fast Forward Yemen’s Jews Want Seats in Parliament
The chief rabbi of Yemen has called on the country’s president to allow the Jewish community and other minority groups to have seats in the country’s parliament. “I demand the government’s new attention to this, to work to allocate seats for members of the community in the Consultative Council and Parliament, in order to feel…
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Fast Forward Phila. Synagogue Hit by BB Gun Fire
Officials at a Philadelphia synagogue are calling a BB gun attack on the synagogue a hate crime. “What else could it be?” Maxine Goldman, co-president of Congregation Ner Zedek-Ezreth, said Monday morning of the May 10 attack in which dozens of BBs reportedly were shot at the building. The attack occured while about 130 people…
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