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Fast Forward Shmuley Boteach Announces Congress Run
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the author and media personality, announced his candidacy for a New Jersey congressional seat. In a statement Wednesday, Boteach announced that he will be seeking the Republican nomination in northern New Jersey’s 9th Congressional District. Boteach had said previously that he was considering a run. The Democratic-leaning northern New Jersey district has…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Man Denies N.Y. Purim Arson Attack
A 22-year-old resident of a Chasidic enclave in New York pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Purim eve arson of a dissident neighbor’s car. Aron Fromowitz of New Square pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Ramapo Town Court to setting fire to a car belonging to Aaron Rottenberg, whose house was set alight in…
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Fast Forward N.H. Town Votes to Rename ‘Jew Pond’
Residents of a small New Hampshire town voted to rename a recreational water hole called Jew Pond. The 104-33 vote Tuesday night by residents of Mont Vernon, N.H. came after a charged debate among residents, interrupted for a half hour due to a false fire alarm, according to reports. The body of water has been…
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Fast Forward Santorum Wins in Mississippi, Alabama
Rick Santorum swept two southern states in Republican primaries, all but burying Newt Gingrich’s chance for the nomination and complicating Mitt Romney’s status as frontrunner. Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who emerged from last place in polling as recently as December to become the conservative challenger to Romney, scored 33 percent of the vote in…
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Fast Forward Push To Halt Israeli Deportation of South Sudanese
Israeli artists and academics have called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent the deportation of refugees who came from South Sudan. The 400 writers, authors and musicians sent a petition to the prime minister Tuesday asking him to stop the deportation, saying it would expose the refugees, many of them children, ” to a…
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News Publisher Will Fight German ‘Mein Kampf’ Ban
A British publisher is vowing to fight a Munich court’s decision to permanently ban his publication of excerpts of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Peter McGee wanted to print excerpts last January in a 16-page insert to his German publication “Zeitungszeugen,” or “Newspaper Witnesses,” together with critical commentary from historians. The insert, one of three planned supplements,…
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Fast Forward Ellison Tops Jews on Forbes Billionaires List
Oracle founder Larry Ellison is top ranked among Jewish individuals appearing on the Forbes magazine’s annual list of world billionaires, coming in at sixth with $36 billion. Ellison held the same ranking last year but with $28 billion. Casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Adelson, with $24.9 billion, moved up to No. 14 from 78. Adelson…
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Fast Forward Rendell Probed Over Fees From Iran Dissidents
The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating speaking fees allegedly paid to former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell on behalf of a State Department-designated terrorist organization. The Treasury Department is seeking to subpoena records of payments made by backers of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian dissident group, to Rendell for his speaking engagements on behalf of…
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