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News Gross Family Wants Pope To Push for Release
Alan Gross’ family is appealing to Pope Benedict XVI to plea for Alan Gross’ release when he visits Cuba. “We believe this is a special opportunity,” Peter Kahn, Gross’ American lawyer told JTA this week. “Given the significance of the Pope’s visit to Cuba and where we are in this process, it would be very…
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Fast Forward Israel Aid Group Helps South Sudan
The Israeli nongovernmental organization IsraAID opened a training program to deal with gender-based violence for social workers in the fledgling country of South Sudan. Helen Murshalli, the South Sudanese minister of social development, inaugurated the program in Juba organized by the Israeli assistance group in cooperation with Operation Blessing Israel. During the 10-day workshop, 29…
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Fast Forward Indian Police Make Arrest in Terror Bombing
Police in New Delhi arrested a suspect in connection with a car bomb attack in the Indian city that injured the wife of an Israeli diplomat. An Indian journalist, Syed Mohammed Kazmi, was arrested Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. A police investigation showed that he had been in contact with the man who police believe…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Enclave Thwarts Atheist Billboard
An atheist organization’s Hebrew-language billboard calling God a “myth” was not unveiled near a Brooklyn Hasidic enclave as scheduled. The billboard sponsored by the American Atheists organization was supposed to be unveiled Tuesday in New York’s South Williamsburg. But when workers from the advertising company came to erect the sign on top of an apartment…
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Fast Forward Romney Ahead After Super Tuesday Wins
Super Tuesday Republican primaries were a race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, Republicans selected a Jewish veteran for Ohio’s Senate run, and Dennis Kucinich lost his bid for reelection. Ten states went to the polls Tuesday in what is the biggest election day of primary season. “Super Tuesday” usually helps determine a frontrunner, but…
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Fast Forward Republicans Blast Obama at AIPAC
Republican candidates addressing AIPAC’s policy conference focused their addresses on what they said were the Obama administration’s failures to head off a nuclear Iran. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor; Rick Santorum the former Pennsylvania senator; and Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, each spoke Tuesday morning to the American Israel Public…
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Fast Forward French Minister Calls Kosher Slaughter Archaic
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon advised Muslims and Jews to forego ritual slaughter practices he deems un-modern, sparking controversy. “I think religions should think about maintaining traditions that no longer have much in common with the state of science and technology, health issues today,” Fillon said Monday on French Europe 1 radio, in reference to…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Urge Jews To Avoid Temple Mount
Israel’s chief rabbis and other senior rabbis have called on Jews not to visit the Temple Mount because it is against Jewish law. The declaration is being presented now, according to the statement’s signers, because many Jewish organizations are calling for the public to visit the Temple Mount. “It is a holy obligation to make…
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