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Fast Forward Poll: Jewish Voters Split on Obama
As many Jewish voters approve of President Obama’s performance as disapprove in an American Jewish Committee poll that shows much disappointment stems from his handling of the economy. The AJC’s annual poll released Monday showed 45 percent of voters approved of Obama as opposed to 48 percent disapproving, a statistical dead heat and a substantial…
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Fast Forward Times Reporter Quits Public Relations Firm Over Conflict Claim
New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner has resigned from the speaker’s bureau of a Jerusalem-based public relations firm amid charges of conflict of interest. Bronner resigned from Lone Star Communications, the Times public editor said in a column Sunday, after an article by journalist and blogger Max Blumenthal in the Columbia Journalism Review…
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News Muslim Students Guilty for Heckling Ambassador
A California jury found 10 Muslim students guilty of misdemeanors for disrupting a 2010 speech by Israel?s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. In a case that drew national attention, 11 Muslim students had stood one by one and interrupted a February 2010 speech by Oren at the University of California – Irvine. Oren…
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Fast Forward Obama Trumpets Israel Support in Call to Rabbis
President Obama discussed the Middle East and education policy in a pre-Rosh Hashanah call with rabbis. Close to 900 rabbis listened into Obama?s call Thursday afternoon, which was arranged by the Reform movement?s Religious Action Center. Obama has made such calls since 2009, the first year of his presidency. He fielded two questions, one about…
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Fast Forward GOP Poll Picks Israel as Top Foreign Policy Issue
Israel was the foreign policy topic most often raised by viewers ahead of a Republican presidential debate. Fox News Channel launched the foreign policy round of the debate on Thursday night by noting that Israel was by far the biggest word in its foreign policy ?word cloud? culled by Google from questions compiled ahead of…
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Fast Forward Historian Oscar Handlin Dies at 95
Oscar Handlin, one of the foremost American historians of the 20th century, has died. Handlin, who taught at Harvard University for more than half a century, died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 95. He was one of the first generation of American Jews to enter the discipline…
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Fast Forward Pope Benedict Meets With Jews in Germany
Pope Benedict XVI met with leaders of Germany?s Jewish community while on a visit to his homeland. Benedict, who arrived Thursday in Berlin to visit his native Germany for the third time since becoming pope, met the Jewish leaders in a closed-door meeting in the Reichstag after addressing the German parliament. The meeting lasted about…
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Fast Forward U.S. General Says Egypt Is Committed to Peace
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Jewish audience that Egypt’s leaders are committed to maintaining the peace with Israel. “In every conversation with my Egyptian counterparts, they always reassert – without my asking – that they want to retain the peace with Israel,” Mullen said Tuesday at…
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