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Fast Forward Presbyterians Push for Israel Divestment
A committee within the Presbyterian Church USA has reopened controversy by recommending that the church divest from three companies doing business with Israel. The church’s Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment released a report Sept. 9 arguing that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church divest from Motorola, Hewlett-Packard and Caterpillar. The release provoked pushback…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Or Not?’ iPhone App Under Fire
A made-in-France iPhone app called “Jewish or Not Jewish?” is under fire for stigmatizing Jews. French Jewish and human rights groups argue that the application, which came out in early August and allows users to guess whether public personalities are Jewish or not, violates French law forbidding the collection of personal data such as a…
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Fast Forward Federations Unhappy With Obama Tax-Deduct Plan
The Jewish Federations of North America criticized how President Obama proposes funding his jobs bill, although it has praised other elements of the bill. The jobs bill introduced last week would cut write-offs for charitable donations from 35 percent to 28 percent for those earning $200,000 a year or families earning $250,000 as a means…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Gets Life for Killing Jewish Family
A Palestinian man has been sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the murder of five members of the Fogel family. Hakim Awad, 18, was sentenced Tuesday in a West Bank Military Court. He had previously admitted guilt in the murders, and had refused to express regret. The judges called the attack “an atrocious, bone-chilling…
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Fast Forward Engel Lobbies American States To Oppose Palestinian Statehood
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the senior Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Western Hemisphere subcommittee, is lobbying countries to vote against Palestinian statehood recognition in the United Nations. “I am contacting as many countries as I can speak with to tell them the U.N. resolution is destructive and awful and will not make peace,…
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Fast Forward Richardson Leaves Cuba Without Winning Release of Gross
Bill Richardson is leaving Cuba after failing to secure even a meeting with imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross. Richardson told The Associated Press on Tuesday that after a week in the country, Cuban officials would not allow him to meet with Gross, and would not even discuss Gross with him. “It was just an outright…
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Fast Forward GOP’s Bob Turner Wins Weiner Seat in Blow to Obama
Republican Bob Turner easily beat Democrat David Weprin last night to win the heavily Jewish New York Congressional seat once held by Anthony Weiner, dealing a stinging blow to Democrats and President Obama. The Republican candidate, Bob Turner, beat his Democratic opponent, New York State Assemblyman David Weprin, in Tuesday’s special election. The Associated Press…
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Fast Forward Google Launches Street View in Israel
Google launched its Street View project In Israel. The Google cars and tricycles, fitted with 360-degree cameras to take panoramic images, will begin collecting images in Jerusalem, including the Old City, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Tel Aviv and Haifa will also be filmed, as well as Israeli tourist attractions such as the Dead…
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