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Fast Forward Bin Laden Wanted Backers To Tout Palestine
Osama bin Laden chided terrorists in his network for not making the Palestinian cause a primary issue. “It was necessary to discuss Palestine first,” the terrorist leader, assassinated last year in a U.S. operation, said after a December 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan. The attackers had instead said the attack was…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Arrested in Sudan Embassy Protest
Jewish leaders were among those arrested during a protest rally outside the Embassy of Sudan. Rabbi Steve Gutow, the president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs umbrella body, Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center and Fred Kramer, who directs Jewish World Watch were among those arrested Friday. The…
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Fast Forward Florida Man Dies in Purim Revelry
A man was found dead, apparently of alcohol poisoning, in the parking lot of a Florida Chabad center following a Purim celebration. Jesse Allen, 28, was found dead on the morning of Mar. 9 in the parking lot of the Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona by the synagogue’s rabbi, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on…
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Fast Forward Florida Heir Wins Looted Art Collection
Germany’s top appeals court ruled Friday that Deutsches Historisches Museum must return a collection of more than 4,000 posters to the son of Hans Sachs, a Jewish dentist who fled Nazi Germany. The son, Peter Sachs, is a retired airline pilot from Sarasota, Fla. Gestapo officials seized the posters from the senior Sachs in 1938,…
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Fast Forward Rep. Gary Ackerman Won’t Run for Reelection
Gary Ackerman, one of the veteran Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced he would not run again. Ackerman, who has served 29 years as a Democrat from Queens/Long Island, said he was stepping down at a time that his reelction was reassured. “During my years in Congress, it has been my pleasure…
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Fast Forward Rosenzweig Steps Down at Jewish History Museum
Michael Rosenzweig still step down this summer as president and CEO of the National Museum of Jewish History. Rosenzweig, who has led the Philadelphia museum since April 2009, will be succeeded by Ivy Barsky, according to a news release. Barsky, who joined the Philadelphia museum in 2011, is a former deputy director of the Museum…
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Fast Forward German Leader Backs Off ‘Apartheid’ Comment
A leading German politician acknowledged that he may have gone too far when he called Israel an “apartheid regime” on Facebook. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, said Thursday that the choice of words he used on the social network the previous day had been “drastic.” “But that is exactly how…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Strike in Los Angeles
Swastikas were drawn on cars, mailboxes and homes in a heavily Jewish Los Angeles neighborhood. The swastikas reportedly were drawn on at least three homes early Wednesday morning in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sherman Oaks. All of the victims of the vandalism are Jewish, according to NBC in Los Angeles. One of the…
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