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Fast Forward Shapiro Reportedly To be Named U.S. Envoy to Israel
Top White House Middle East adviser Dan Shapiro is reportedly set to be tapped to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Israel. President Obama plans to nominate Shapiro, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Middle East and North Africa, Laura Rozen reported Tuesday in her Politico blog, citing unnamed administration sources. Shapiro reportedly…
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Fast Forward Reconstructionist Judaism Bodies To Merge
The two organizational arms of the Reconstructionist movement are set to merge. Following a year-and-a-half of negotiations, the boards of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation have voted to form one body that will be responsible for Reconstructionist Judaism in North America. Reconstructionist leaders say the merger will permit better use of…
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Fast Forward In Devasating New Zealand Quake, Four Israelis Are Among Those Feared Dead
Up to four Israelis who were in Christchurch, New Zealand at the time remain missing and are feared dead. On Wednesday, Israel’s consul to New Zealand, Teddy Poplinger, said that his staff is working to contact all Israelis who were reported to be in the area of the quake when it struck on Tuesday. “[T]here…
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Fast Forward Bahrain’s Jewish MP: Protests Blown Out of Proportion
Bahraini Jewish parliamentarian Nancy Khedouri told JTA that the protests in her country have been blown out of proportion by the media. At least eight people have been killed and hundreds wounded in mass anti-government demonstrations in Bahrain, an oil-exporting island nation home to about 800,000 people, including some three dozen Jews. Khedouri and others…
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Fast Forward At Least 65 Dead, Including One Israeli, in New Zealand Quake
An Israeli backpacker is among the dozens killed in an earthquake that devastated the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. At least 65 people are reported dead and many buildings toppled, including the city’s Chabad house, in Tuesday’s temblor, which measured 6.3 on the Richter scale. The Israeli, who has not yet been named by embassy…
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Fast Forward Knesset Approves Google Street View
A team of Knesset Cabinet members met to discuss security and privacy concerns surrounding the operation of Google Street View in Israel. Google Street View, an on-line mapping tool which provides a three-dimensional view of buildings, landmarks, and streets around the world, is set to be operated in Israel in coming months. The ministerial team…
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Fast Forward Helen Thomas: Jews Weren’t Persecuted in Europe After the War
Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas said the Jews did not have to leave postwar Europe because they weren’t persecuted. In an interview Wednesday on CNN’s “Joy Behar” program, Thomas told Behar that once World War II ended, the Jews “didn’t have to go anywhere really, because they weren’t being persecuted anymore. But they were…
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Fast Forward Bibi to Nasrallah: ‘Stay in the Bunker’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told American Jewish leaders – and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – that Israel is strong and can defend itself. Netanyahu, speaking Wednesday evening at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations meeting in Jerusalem, responded to Nasrallah’s threat earlier in the day that Hezbollah would take over Israel’s Galilee region…
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