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Fast Forward Oren Slams Friedman Over ‘Bought’ Comment
Israeli ambassador Michael Oren said New York Times columnist Tom Friedman “strengthened a dangerous myth” when he said Congress was “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.” “This allegation is profoundly disturbing,” Oren told JTA. “The term ‘Israel lobby’ implies the existence of a Zionist cabal wielding inordinate economic and political power. Unintentionally, perhaps,…
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News Tea Party’s Allen West Compares Dems to Nazis
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) likened Democrats to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. “If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine,” West told a group of reporters who on Thursday asked him about polls showing Congress is unpopular, and that voters tend to…
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Fast Forward Barak Predicts Assad Gone by Spring
Ehud Barak predicted to a group of schoolchildren that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad would be removed from power by Passover. “Before Pesach, I believe, he won’t be in power any more,” the Israeli defense minister, who is in Washington to address the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial, said Thursday when meeting with students at the…
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Fast Forward Barak and Obama Set To Meet Today
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet with President Obama on Friday morning, acording to sources. The meeting will come shortly before President Obama’s address Friday afternoon to the biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism, which is being held in nearby National Harbor, Md. In an address Thursday night to the organization, Barak…
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Fast Forward Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62
Christopher Hitchens, the atheist and iconoclast who discovered in adulthood that he was of Jewish descent, has died. Vanity Fair, where much of Hitchens’ work appeared, announced his passing late Thursday night on Twitter. He was 62 and suffering from esophageal cancer. Hitchens, born in Britain but more recently naturalized as an American citizen, emerged…
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Fast Forward Boston Teacher Refuses Deal in Sex Abuse Case
A rabbi who taught at a Boston-area Jewish day school has refused a plea deal over sexual abuse charges. Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt of Philadelphia has been accused of molesting three former students at the Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass. The allegations date back to 1975-76. He was indicted in Boston two years ago. Levitt,…
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Fast Forward European Union Funds Preservation of Auschwitz
The European Union has donated more than $5 million to preserve the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp. Auschwitz authorities announced Wednesday that the $5.3 million awarded by the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, will be used to preserve the women’s barracks at the Birkenau site of the camp, improve security…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ambassador Hosts Gathering for Latinos
Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, hosted Hispanic leadership for a cultural evening, the latest in a series of engagements with U.S. minorities. Oren on Wednesday dined at his residence with about 65 Hispanic leaders from Congress, the Obama administration and other sectors. There was also at a performance by David Broza, the Israeli-American…
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