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Fast Forward Fox News Chief Apologizes for Nazi Remark
Fox News chief Roger Ailes apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for calling National Public Radio executives “Nazis.” Ailes made the comment in an interview with the Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz, who was canvassing recent controversies about the right-leaning news channel. Ailes hired Juan Williams, a commentator, full time after NPR fired Williams for saying on…
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Fast Forward Fox News Chief: ‘Left Wing Rabbis’ Make It Difficult to Say ‘Holocaust’
Roger Ailes, the Fox News Channel chief, called National Public Radio executives “Nazis” and said “left-wing rabbis” make it difficult to use the term “Holocaust” on air. Ailes made the comments in an interview with the Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz, who was canvassing recent controversies about the right-leaning news channel. Ailes hired Juan Williams, a…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Wins Presidential Medal of Freedom
A Holocaust survivor who teaches children the value of citizenship is among those who will be honored by President Obama with a Medal of Freedom. Gerda Weissman Klein, who survived the notorious death march at the end of the war designed by Nazis to keep Jews from being rescued, recently founded Citizenship Counts, “an organization…
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Fast Forward Opponents of Texas House Speaker Say Challengers Should Be Christians
Opponents working to unseat the state’s Jewish House speaker reportedly have suggested in e-mails and newsletters that challengers should be “Christians and true Conservatives.” The e-mails circulating recently that oppose Joe Straus, a Republican from San Antonio, in the race for the state House of Representatives post “emphasize his Judaism,” the Dallas Morning News reported…
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Fast Forward Susan Sher, First Lady’s Chief of Staff, Will Step Down
First Lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff Susan Sher, who has served as an administration liaison to the Jewish community, will leave the White House. Sher has plans to return to Chicago early next year, Politico reported Tuesday. No successor has been named, according to Politico. “Susan has brought tremendous skill and dedication to the…
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Fast Forward Seven Small Earthquakes Rock Northern Israel
An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale hit northern Israel, the seventh temblor in two days. Tuesday morning’s earthquake hit near the border with Lebanon, and marked the highest magnitude quake of the seven that began on Sunday evening with a 2.7 temblor, Haaretz reported. Residents of the Upper Galilee reported feeling the quake…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Rabbis Leave Muslim-Jewish Project
Two rabbis in western New York have pulled out of a Muslim-Jewish outreach effort, charging that the national sponsor is involved in Islamic fundamentalism. The “twinning” project, which has been held each November since 2008, is a project of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding in cooperation with the Islamic Society of North America, which was…
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Fast Forward Auction of Madoff Family Possessions Brings in $2 Million for Victims
Personal property of Jewish financier Bernard Madoff were sold in an auction that raised more than $2 million to repay the victims of his multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The weekend auction in New York run by the U.S. Marshals Service raised money for the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, whose proceeds are used to…
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