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Fast Forward Artifacts From Second Temple Period Uncovered in Jerusalem
Artifacts from the Second Temple period were found in Jerusalem. A sword in a scabbard that belonged to a Roman soldier and an engraving of the Temple’s menorah on a stone object were discovered in recent days during excavation work in the 2,000-year-old drainage channel discovered between the City of David and the Jerusalem Archeological…
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Fast Forward U.S. Loan Guarantees for Israel Downgraded Too
Standard & Poor’s said ratings for the loan guarantees Israel obtains from the United States dropped commensurately with its downgrading of the U.S. credit rating. The rating agency, one of three major credit raters, said Monday that the $6 billion Israel receives in guarantees dropped from its highest rating of AAA to AA+, as had…
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Fast Forward Senators Demand Sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank
Nearly the entire U.S. Senate has signed on to a letter urging the Obama administration to implement sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank. “As you know, the Iranian regime continues to pursue avenues to circumvent both U.S. and multilateral sanctions,” says the letter to be sent Tuesday and first reported Sunday by The Wall Street Journal….
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Fast Forward Israelis in U.S. Set Up Tent City Protests
Israelis in the United States are pitching tents in public spaces, taking up the social justice protests crisscrossing Israel. Small tent cities have sprung up in New York’s Time Square, across the street from the White House and at a park in Los Angeles, Ynet reported. About 200 ex-Israelis and supporters of Israel’s housing protesters…
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Fast Forward German City Banks on Uncovering Jewish Past
This city in western Germany is banking its future on its Jewish past. But at present, the investment is exacting a heavy price: $52 million, to be exact. Following a divisive decades-long battle, Cologne’s municipal government voted recently to allocate that sum toward the construction of a new museum focused on the city’s medieval Jewish…
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Fast Forward White House Calls on Cuba To Release Gross
The Obama administration called for the immediate release of Alan Gross hours after the contractor’s final appeal to Cuba’s courts failed. “We call on the government of Cuba to release Alan Gross immediately and unconditionally, to allow him to return to his family and bring to an end the long ordeal that began well over…
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Fast Forward Small Earthquake Strikes Israel
A small earthquake was felt in Israel, mainly on the coastal plain. The epicenter of the earthquake, which stuck just moments before noon Sunday, was located in the Mediterranean Sea, about 44 miles northwest of Tel Aviv and 49 miles west-southwest of Haifa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The temblor, which measured 4.1, was felt…
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Fast Forward Wexler Urges Obama To Release Pollard
Robert Wexler, one of President Obama’s closest Jewish confidantes, urged him to release Jonathan Pollard. The July 25 letter from Wexler, a former Democratic congressman from Florida, was released Friday by advocates for clemency for the imprisoned spy for Israel. One of a recent flood of appeals from Congress members and former government officials, Wexler’s…
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