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Fast Forward New Jersey Rabbi Gets 5 Years for Scam
Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim, a prominent New Jersey spiritual leader, was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering. Ben Haim, 60, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., for laundering at least $1.5 million through a number of religious charities from October 2006 to July 2009. He pleaded guilty in…
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Fast Forward Polish Museum To Display Lego Concentration Camp
A Lego Nazi concentration camp slammed for trivializing the Holocaust was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The museum reportedly paid $71,800 to a Norwegian collector for the 1996 piece by Polish artist Zbigniew Libera. The work features crematoria and barracks made from Legos, as well as Lego inmates being beaten by…
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Fast Forward Bachmann Drops Out After Iowa Flop
Michele Bachmann pulled out of the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination after finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses. “I ran as the next steppingstone, the passing on of the torch of liberty,” said Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, in a speech to supporters Wednesday in Iowa. Eight votes reportedly separated first-place finisher Mitt Romney,…
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Fast Forward Israeli, Palestinian Negotiators To Reconvene
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met face to face for the first time in more than a year and agreed to meet again. Yitzhak Molcho, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal envoy to the negotiations with the Palestinians, and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat held a meeting Tuesday in Amman, Jordan, with representatives of the Mideast…
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Fast Forward Romney Edges Santorum By 8 Votes in Iowa
The Iowa Republican caucuses ended in a dead heat between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, with Ron Paul finishing a strong third. Eight votes reportedly separated first-place finisher Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, from Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. They each took about 25 percent of the vote. Rep. Paul (R-Texas) finished with…
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Fast Forward Santorum and Romney Locked in Tight Iowa Race
The Iowa Republican caucus is shaping up as a close three-way race between Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. Each of the candidates were within dozens of votes of each other as votes were counted Tuesday night, splitting about 75 percent of the vote evenly. With 88% of the precincts counted, Santorum was ahead…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Targeted ADL’s Foxman
A white supremacist who was arrested after informing his wife that he planned to kill Jews and blacks may have had plans to target the leader of the Anti-Defamation League, the FBI said. Danny Lee Warner, 33, was arrested Wednesday outside a McDonalds in Arizona the day after his estranged wife received a letter postmarked…
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Fast Forward Jerzy Kluger, Pope’s Jewish Confidant, Dies
Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifelong friend of the late Pope John Paul II, has died in Rome at 90. Kluger, who had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, died Saturday. He and his Irish-born wife had lived in Rome for decades. The Rome Jewish community said his funeral took place Monday and that…
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