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Fast Forward Police Stop Demonstration on Temple Mount
Police dispersed Muslim rioters on the Temple Mount who apparently had been spurred by reports that Jewish extremists planned to enter the site. Reports said the rioters, among the Friday worshippers at the site’s mosques, hurled rocks at the Mughrabi Bridge entrance, prompting a rare incursion by police, who used stun grenades. At least 11…
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Fast Forward JINSA: Defense Cuts Would Be ‘Devastating’
Defense cuts likely to ensue from the failure of the Obama administration and Congress to agree on the budget would jeopardize U.S. security, according to a Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs paper. “The cuts now being contemplated vastly exceed anything the United States has experienced in the post-World War II era,” said the introduction…
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Fast Forward Canadian Activists Plan Israel Boycott of Sears
A pro-Palestinian group in Canada has called for a boycott against Sears because it carries Israeli products. Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East asked Sears last month to drop its Israeli products, including Ahava cosmetics and Keter Plastic, the Canadian Jewish News reported. The group said in a letter to then-Sears president…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Army Exemption Continues for Now
The Israeli government will have to extend the Tal Law, which allows yeshiva students to delay their military service, until new legislation can be drafted, the country’s Interior Minister said. Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Thursday that the law will likely be extended for at least a year, despite the fact that the Supreme…
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Fast Forward Sasha Baron Cohen Can’t Dress as ‘Dictator’
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen will be banned from the Academy Awards if he arrives at the Red Carpet dressed as The Dictator, a character from his upcoming film. Paramount’s awards staff said Baron Cohen would not receive his tickets to the Oscars unless he assures the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ahead of…
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Fast Forward Gingrich To Address AIPAC
Newt Gingrich will address the AIPAC policy conference. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, who is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nod, is the first in the GOP field to announce his participation in the March 4-6 conference. Gingrich is slated to speak March 5, a day after President Obama. The…
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Fast Forward Iran Nuclear Talks Make Scant Progress
Talks between the United Nations nuclear watchdog and Iran on an agreement to monitor the latter’s nuclear program have ended without progress. Negotiators for the UN International Atomic Energy Agency left Iran Tuesday after two days of talks, and without being allowed to inspect the Parchin military base near Tehran, a military site thought to…
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Fast Forward Mets Can Bar Kosher Franks on Shabbat
The New York Mets can prevent a kosher food vendor from selling its wares on Shabbat, a federal judge ruled. Judge Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn ruled Tuesday against Kosher Sports Inc. and ordered the Englewood, N.J., company to pay damages since it stopped paying its fees. In his ruling, Weinstein said…
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