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Fast Forward White House Denies Offering Bunker-Buster Bombs
A White House spokesman denied reports that President Obama promised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bunker-buster bombs and refueling planes that could help in a military strike against Iran. “In meetings the president had there was no such agreement proposed or reached,” the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said at a press briefing Thursday….
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Fast Forward Jews Most Mobile of Major Faiths: Study
A new study found that Jews are the most internationally migratory of all the world’s major religious groups. “Faith on the Move,” a study the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, that was released Thursday found that a quarter of Jews are international migrants, defined as individuals who reside permanently in a…
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Fast Forward Mormons Try To Stem ‘Baptism’ of Jews
The Mormon Church is restricting access to its genealogical records relating to Holocaust victims in a move to protect their names for posthumous baptisms. “The church is committed to preventing the misguided practice of submitting the names of Holocaust victims and prominent individuals for proxy baptism,” church spokesman Michael Purdy said this week, according to…
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Fast Forward Campaign Marks Argentina Bombing at 20
The Israeli Embassy in Argentina is launching a public campaign about survivors of the 1992 attack there. “Today I turn 20” will feature advertisements starting next week in the media, as well as on subways and in the streets. The campaign is being produced by the ad agency BasevichCrea with photography by Hernan Churba. Both…
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Fast Forward Woody Allen Will Play Pimp in New Film
Woody Allen will play a pimp who arouses the suspicions of his Hasidic neighbors in a movie directed by John Turturro. Allen is set to co-star in the “Fading Gigolo” along with Turturro and Sharon Stone, Variety reported Tuesday. Turturro and Allen will play friends who spark the suspicions of their Chasidic neighbors when they…
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Fast Forward U.N. Accuses Iran of Nuclear Cover-Up
U.N. nuclear experts accused Iran of attempting to conceal nuclear weapons work. According to diplomats accredited to the International Atomic Energy Association, the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, satellite images show what appears to be crews and vehicles cleaning up radioactive evidence of tests of a device used to create a nuclear explosion, the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Flag Defaced at California College
An Israeli flag belonging to a Jewish student group was defaced with the word “terrorists” at the University of California, Riverside. The word was scrawled in pencil near the center of the flag, which was displayed on a hallway bulletin board outside the campus Hillel office, the Los Angeles Times reported. Campus police are investigating…
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Fast Forward Ex-Mossad Boss Slams Romney Stance on Iran
Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy said Mitt Romney’s gibes at President Obama’s Iran policy were irresponsible. “This means to an Iranian, if you will wait until another few months and there is a change in the White House, then maybe there will be trouble, so the lesson is, let’s redouble our efforts to do it…
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