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Fast Forward Oxfam Names Syria and Iran and Arms Violators
A new report by Oxfam International names Iran and Syria as major violators of arms embargoes over the last decade. Overall, the report indicates that more than $2.2 billion in arms and ammunition has since 2000 been imported to countries under arms embargoes. According to the figures, Syria imported $167 million worth of air defense…
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Fast Forward Brother of Yitzhak Rabin’s Killer is Freed
Hagai Amir, who helped his brother Yigal Amir plot the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, was released from prison. Authorities at the Ayalon prison in Ramle, in central Israel, released Amir, 43, on Friday morning. He had been in prison 16 years and has never expressed remorse for his role in the Nov. 4 1995 murder…
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Fast Forward Reform Presses Obama on No-Discrimination Order
Nearly two dozen faith groups joined an initiative led by the Reform Jewish movement calling on President Obama to reconsider his decision not to issue an anti-discrimination executive order. In Thursday’s letter, 23 organizations expressed disappointment that the president did not issue an executive order to include sexual orientation and gender identity as prohibited forms…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Lesson Teacher Took Wrong Medication
A South Carolina teacher arrested on charges of assault and battery for a Holocaust lesson that went awry may have been under the influence of a medication at the time. Patricia Mulholland, a veteran seventh-grade social studies teacher at Bluffton Middle School, reportedly told police that she may have accidentally taken some of her husband’s…
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Fast Forward Long Island Synagogue Feuds With Caterers
A suburban New York synagogue has launched eviction proceedings against its longtime kosher caterer. Long Island’s Woodbury Jewish Center can revoke the license of Morrell Caterers, the exclusive caterer for three area synagogues, because there is no contract, the Nassau County Supreme Court ruled this week. Justice Vito DeStefano also vacated a temporary restraining order…
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Fast Forward White House Drops Stein from Proclamation
The White House removed a reference to Gertrude Stein from its Jewish Heritage Month proclamation. Stein – along with Aaron Copland, Albert Einstein and Louis Brandeis – were deleted from the proclamation sent out Wednesday night. The proclamation issued Tuesday had listed the four as Jews who “have brought to bear some of our country’s…
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Fast Forward Bowing Out, Gingrich Thanks Adelsons
Newt Gingrich, bowing out of the race for the Republican presidential nod, thanked Miriam and Sheldon Adelson for helping to sustain his campaign. “We share a combined concern about the Middle East and a combined concern about American security and the survival of Israel,” Gingrich, the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, said Wednesday in…
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Fast Forward Methodists Reject Divestment Motion
The general conference of the United Methodist Church voted not to divest from three companies that trade with Israel. Two-thirds of the approximately 1,000 delegates to the conference voted Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., against a motion to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard. Divestment advocates claim that products manufactured by these companies are used…
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