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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Group May Join Toronto Gay Parade
The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is planning to return to the gay pride parade in Toronto, setting up another battle with Jewish groups and the city. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid withdrew from last year’s Pride Toronto parade after city officials demanded assurances that the group would not take part amid rumblings that funding…
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News Oops! Lawmaker Calls for Arafat-Sharon Peace Talks
A Pennsylvania congressman apologized for sending out a letter that called for Middle East peace negotiations between the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the comatose former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The office of U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, a Republican, said Tuesday that the letter to a constituent picking up language from an old…
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Fast Forward Historian Arno Lustiger Dies at 88
Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, has died. Lustiger died Tuesday in Frankfurt, Germany, at the age of 88. Lustiger’s “greatest contribution for all time” was in “rescuing from oblivion the story of Jewish resistance in the Shoah,” Dieter Graumann, head of the Central…
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Fast Forward Catholic Sect Leader Brands Jews Antagonistic
A bishop for a traditionalist Catholic breakaway group said the relationship between Jews and Christians is a fundamentally antagonistic one. Jews “see in Christianity the cause of their situation today,” Bishop Bernard Fellay, the Society of St. Pius X’s superior general, told the Catholic News Service this week. “If you think of what happened to…
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Fast Forward Florida Family Wins Judgment Against Iran, Syria
The family of a Florida teenager killed in a Palestinian suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria. Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. ruled Monday that Iran and Syria were responsible for the attack by an Islamic Jihad…
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Fast Forward Woman Rabbi Seated on Israeli Religious Council
A female Reform rabbi took her place on the religious council of Mevasseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem. Rabbi Alona Lisitsa said she did not feel hostility from the rest of the representatives — all Orthodox — of the local religious council, according to reports. The Reform Mevasseret Zion Congregation put forth Lisitsa’s name to…
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Fast Forward Argentina Has Jewish President — for a Day
For the first time, Argentina will have a Jewish president, at least temporarily. Beatriz Rojkés, the provisional president of the Argentinean Senate, will be in charge of the government for slightly more than a day beginning Wednesday, due to the travels of the Argentinean president and vice president. On Wednesday, President Cristina Fernandez will fly…
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Fast Forward Lithuanians Scrap Event for Quisling Leader
The Lithuanian University in Kaunas on Tuesday decided to cancel a commemorative conference planned for the “prime minister” of Lithuania’s 1941 Nazi puppet government. In a controversial move, causing anguish among Holocaust survivors, Lithuania’s Jewish community and the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, the remains of Juozas Brazaitis Ambrazevicius, who died almost 40 years…
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