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Fast Forward Israel Foreign Minister Still Backs Two States
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reconfirmed his commitment to a two-state solution during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington. Lieberman, who arrived Monday in Washington for a three-day visit, and Clinton reportedly talked on Tuesday morning about the situation in Syria, recent elections in Egypt and the Israel-Palestinian peace…
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Fast Forward Messianic Jews Condemn Bishop Long Torah Service
Two Messianic Jewish organizations condemned a self-styled Messianic rabbi for conducting a church service in which a Baptist bishop was wrapped in a Torah scroll and called a king. The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations and the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America said in a statement that “we join our voices with the wider Jewish…
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Fast Forward Komen Official Quits Over Planned Parenthood Flap
A senior official at Susan G. Komen For the Cure resigned after the organization was embroiled in controversy over its atempt to defund Planned Parenthood. Karen Handel, the breast cancer group’s vice president for public policy, resigned Tuesday, just days after the organization backed down from its decision to change grantee guidelines in a way…
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Fast Forward Nazi Tools From Concentration Camp on Block
A box of surgical tools owned by the commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp is set to be auctioned. The wooden box of medical instruments going up for sale Feb. 11 belonged to SS Major Anton Burger, who helped turn the camp into a showcase for the Nazis during visits by the Red Cross and…
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Fast Forward Looted Painting Must Be Returned to Jewish Heirs
A U.S. federal judge has ordered a painting seized from a Florida museum where it was on loan returned to the heirs of its former Jewish owner. The 16th Century painting “Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue” by Girolamo de’ Romani was ordered returned to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe on…
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Fast Forward World Court Tosses Suit by Holocaust Survivors
he International Court of Justice in The Hague has overturned an Italian ruling that would have forced Germany to pay a pension to an Italian former slave laborer for the Nazis. The court affirmed international law, which allows citizens to sue their own governments but prevents them from suing other states except in an international…
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Fast Forward U.S. Warns Tourists To Dress Modestly in Israel
The U.S. State Department has revised its travel recommendations for tourists to Israel, advising travelers to dress modestly or risk getting attacked. The advisory for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, updated last month, recommends under its section on Jerusalem that travelers “dress appropriately when visiting the Old City and ultra-orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.” “Assaults on…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Vow To Cut Greenhouse Gases
Fifty Jewish leaders signed a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in advance of Tu b’Shvat. The communal leaders and rabbis from the Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, Reform and Renewal movements on Monday signed The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life’s “Jewish Environment and Energy Imperative” declaration. In the declaration, signed during an official ceremony…
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