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Fast Forward Global Jewish TV Station Launching
A Jewish news network that will air 24 hours a day is set to begin broadcasting. The Jewish News One network, with studios based in Brussels, Tel Aviv, New York and Kiev, will go on the air Wednesday, according to reports. Studios are planned for Washington, Paris and London, as well. Broadcasts will be in…
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Fast Forward Jewish Women Create Domestic Violence Prayer
Jewish Women International has created a misheberach prayer to raise awareness of domestic violence. Created by JWI’s Clergy Task Force, the prayer is multidenominational and written in Hebrew and English. It directs healing specifically to the victims of domestic abuse; the misheberach prayer calls for complete healing of the body and spirit. The new prayer…
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Fast Forward Obama Launches Jewish Outreach Campaign With Mass Call
The Obama re-election campaign is launching its outreach to Jews with a mass conference call. Top campaign officials will address listeners in the call, which is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, a top Jewish outreach official told JTA. Jewish supporters will be alerted to the call’s details Monday afternoon, the official said. The call is taking…
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Fast Forward AJC Blasts Anti-Obama Ad Campaign
The American Jewish Committee slammed a pro-Israel group for its ad campaign questioning President Obama’s Israel commitment. “This ad is highly objectionable, indeed counter-productive, to its stated aim of supporting Israel,” David Harris, the AJC’s director, said in a statement Monday after the Emergency Committee for Israel’s full-page ad appeared in The New York Times….
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Fast Forward Ex-Agriprocessors Boss Denied New Trial
Former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin was denied a new trial by a U.S. appeals court. The St. Louis Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 16 that Rubashkin did not prove in his bid for a new trial that the presiding judge in the original case, Linda Reade of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…
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News Israel Tent Chats Coming to College Campuses
The Jewish Agency for Israel and Hillel are erecting white tents on 20 campuses throughout North America to serve as forums to discuss Israel and the Middle East. The “Talk Israel” program will take place Sept. 20 and 21 at universities including the University of California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, George Washington and the University of Maryland….
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News Columbia Warned Over Ahmadinejad Invite
An Israeli rights group has warned Columbia University of legal repercussions following an invitation to some students for a dinner with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Members of Columbia’s International Relations Council and Association were invited via e-mail to a private meal Sept. 21 with Ahmadinejad, the school’s Spectator newspaper reported. Some 15 students will attend…
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Fast Forward Looted Painting Returned to Jewish Owners
A painting sold under duress by its Jewish owners during World War II was restituted to his heirs. The painting, “Madame La Suire” by Albert von Keller, was returned Tuesday to the estate of Alfred Sommerguth with the help of New York’s Holocaust Claims Processing Office. It was sold by Sommerguth under duress on Feb….
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