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Fast Forward Pollard Pleads With Envoy to Push for Release
Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard urged Israel’s U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, to work for his release during the envoy’s prison visit. Pollard asked Oren at the federal prison in Butner, N.C., to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, and President Obama for his release. Oren passed on a personal message from Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Zionist Group Files Complaint Against Rutgers
The Zionist Organization of America has filed a complaint against Rutgers University alleging that the school fostered a hostile environment toward Jewish students. The complaint requests that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights investigate the New Jersey school for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint was…
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Fast Forward Retired Generals Promote Peace Plan With ’67 Borders
Seven retired Israeli diplomats and military officers met with high-ranking U.S. officials to press for greater U.S. engagement in brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace. The seven, including Gen. Natan Sharoni, a former chief of planning; Gen. Nehemiah Dagan, a former chief education officer; and Gen. Shlomo Gazit, a former intelligence chief, as well as former ambassadors and…
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Fast Forward Norway’s Jews Mourn and Worry About Future
Norway has just 1,500 Jews, but to hear Avi Ring tell it, the country is reacting to last Friday’s bombing of a government office building and massacre at a political summer camp in a traditionally Jewish way. “As soon as people speak about it, they start to cry,” said Ring, a neuroscientist and former board…
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Fast Forward Jewish Service Groups Worried About Debt Deadlock
Jewish service groups are telling their constituents to be on guard for a possible government shutdown or slowdown after Aug. 2, when the United States is scheduled to hit its debt ceiling. What that means is not yet clear: The government isn’t saying what it will stop paying for or which debts it will halt…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Groups Seek To Clarify Stance on Reporting Child Abuse
Two Orthodox Jewish groups have released statements attempting to clarify their positions on reporting child abuse. Agudath Israel of America and the Rabbinical Council of America were responding to what the former called “misleading claims about our stance on reporting suspected child abusers to law enforcement agencies.” The statements come in the wake of criticism…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Unveils Reform in Response to Housing Protests
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled sweeping housing reforms in Israel. Netanyahu convened a news conference with his finance and construction ministers Tuesday to announce a plan under which Israel will provide low-rent housing for students and the poor, ease regulations on land and realty sales, and improve public transportation from cities to their periphery. The…
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Fast Forward Zuckerberg and Bibi Make ‘Top Jews’ List
Mark Zuckerberg and Benjamin Netanyahu head The Jerusalem Post’s second annual list of the world’s 50 Top Jews. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, adds his No. 1 finish in the Post survey to his Person of the Year award from Time magazine. He is followed by Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister. American names include U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor…
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