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Fast Forward Online Petition for Rubashkin Gets 50,000 Signatures
An online petition in support of jailed kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin garnered 10 times its anticipated goal of 5,000 signatures. The petition, which calls on President Obama to order an investigation into judicial misconduct in Rubashkin’s financial fraud trial, garnered 51,605 signatures. The petition listed its goal as 5,000 signatures by Oct. 22 when…
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Fast Forward Egypt Agrees To Free Ilan Grapel
Egypt has agreed to release dual American-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel in exchange for 25 Egyptians being held in Israeli prisons. The Egyptians, including three minors, are not security prisoners, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on the deal released Monday evening. They are being held on charges such as crossing the border…
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Fast Forward Israel Gives 200-Year-Old Olive Tree to Pope
An olive tree more than 200 years old grown near Nazareth was sent as a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Pope Benedict XVI. The tree will be planted Wednesday during a ceremony at Viale Degli Ulivi, or Olive Tree Boulevard, in the Vatican Gardens. According to Netanyahu, the tree symbolizes the blooming…
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Fast Forward Two St. Louis Day Schools Agree To Merge
Two St. Louis Jewish day schools, a Reform and a Conservative, have voted to merge. The boards of the Conservative-affiliated Solomon Schechter Day School of St. Louis and the Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy backed the merger in separate votes Monday, according to the St. Louis Jewish Light. Passage required two-thirds majority of each…
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Fast Forward GOP Candidates Push Back on Aid to Israel
Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain pushed back against a proposal by Ron Paul to cut funding to Israel. Paul, a Texas congressman, during the GOP debate Tuesday in Las Vegas repeated his proposal to cut foreign aid, including the $3 billion Israel receives annually in defense assistance. “That foreign aid makes Israel…
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Fast Forward Occupy Boston Takes Aim at Israeli Occupation
A demonstration and march hosted by Occupy Boston protested U.S. support of Israel’s presence in “Palestine.” Tuesday’s march, under the moniker Occupy Boston-Not Palestine, was held in conjunction with dozens of members of Jewish Women for Justice in Palestine at Dewey Square, the center of the Occupy Boston movement, according to a report in the…
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Fast Forward L.A. Substitute Teacher Fired Over Anti-Semitic Remarks
A substitute teacher for the Los Angeles Unified school district has been fired after making anti-Semitic remarks. Patricia McAllister said during an interview at an Occupy Los Angeles protest on Oct. 12 that: “I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the…
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Fast Forward Slingshot Names Top Ten Innovative Groups
Slingshot added a Top 10 list to its newly released annual guide to innovative Jewish programming in North America. A list of 10 top “standard bearers” was added to the annual list of the 50 “most inspiring and innovative organizations, projects, and programs in the North American Jewish community today” by Slingshot, a project of…
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