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Fast Forward Kadima Lawmaker Dichter Heckled at Brandeis
Israeli lawmaker Avi Dichter was heckled by protesters during a speech at Brandeis University. Students from the group Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine stood up as Dichter began speaking Tuesday during a panel discussion to an audience of several hundred students, and called him a war criminal in both English and Hebrew, Haaretz reported….
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Fast Forward Ross: Turmoil Sharpens Israeli Needs for Security Guarantees
The recent Middle East turmoil has sharpened Israeli needs for tangible security guarantees in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians, Dennis Ross said. Ross, President Obama’s top Middle East adviser, told the Anti-Defamation League’s annual leadership conference in Washington on Monday that security guarantees sought by Israel toward a peace deal with the Palestinians were…
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Fast Forward U.N.: Goldstone Would Have To Request Report Be Rescinded
Richard Goldstone would have to ask the United Nations on behalf of his committee to rescind its report on Israel’s actions during the 2009 Gaza war to set such an action in motion, a U.N. spokesman said. The U.N. Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, has not received such a request, The Associated Press…
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Fast Forward Reform Body Taps Rabbi Stephen Fuchs as New President
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs has been named president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Fuchs has served nearly four decades as a pulpit rabbi, including as senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford, Conn., since 1997. He is a past chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis committee on interreligious affairs, and…
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Fast Forward B’nai Brith President Indicted on Tax Fraud Charges
Dennis Glick, who abruptly resigned as president of B’nai B’rith International, has been indicted on federal charges of tax fraud, JTA has learned. Glick, a certified public accountant who held a variety of positions over the years at B’nai B’rith, including treasurer, was arraigned Thursday and released on $50,000 bail after entering a plea of…
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Fast Forward Rumsfeld: No Clemency for Pollard
Former U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld said Jonathan Pollard should not be granted clemency. Rumsfeld, who served under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, said during an interview on Israel’s Channel 10 that granting Pollard early release would send the wrong message. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) this week became the first Republican in…
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News Cal Irvine Students Met with Hamas Leader
Students from the University of California, Irvine met with a Hamas leader during a student trip to Israel. The Institute for Jewish and Community Research said it learned recently that the university’s branch of the Olive Tree Initiative, an Israeli-Palestinian peace organization, arranged for a meeting between the Irvine students and a Hamas leader in…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Launches Project to Identify Child Survivors
A project to identify child survivors of the Holocaust has been launched. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is asking for the public?s help in identifying photos of 1,100 children, some of the tens of thousands of children who found themselves alone and scattered across Europe at the end of World War II. The images,…
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