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Fast Forward Campaign Pushes Yom Kippur as Device-Free Day
A new campaign is promoting Yom Kippur as a day to disconnect from technology. Offlining, Inc. is the brainchild of advertising and public relations CEOs Eric Yaverbaum and Mark DiMassimo, self-professed children of the Silicon Revolution who launched http://www.offlininginc.com just before Father’s Day in June urging dads to put down their mobile devices, turn off…
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Fast Forward U.S. Launches Preparation Meetings for Peace Talks
The United States launched meetings in preparation for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Tuesday in Washington with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. She was scheduled to meet in the evening with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers. The leaders were set…
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Fast Forward Suspect Arrested in L.A. Murders
Los Angeles Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting deaths of three members of the city’s Iranian Jewish community. Harold Yong Parks, 31, of Los Angeles, was in possession of several pounds of marijuana when he was arrested Monday, according to the Sacramento Bee. Police investigators believe that Park stole the marijuana from Pirooz…
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Fast Forward Barak, Abbas Hold Secret Meeting
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly met secretly with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the eve of peace talks. Barak held a secret meeting with Abbas Sunday night in Amman, Israeli media reported, hours after meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah at his palace. Barak reportedly returned to Israel to brief Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward State Dept. Condemns Yosef Remarks About Abbas
The Obama administration condemned what it said was incitement by an influential Israeli rabbi. “We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Sunday in a statement. On the eve of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Yosef, a former chief Sephardic rabbi and the spiritual leader of the Shas…
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Fast Forward Three Iranian Jews Shot Dead in L.A.
Three members of Los Angeles’ Iranian Jewish community were shot and killed in West Hollywood. Pirooz Moussazadeh, 27, and his brother, Shahriar Moussazadeh, 38, and Bernard Khalili, 27, were shot on the night of Aug. 25 at the brothers’ apartment. The three were pronounced dead at the scene, according to reports. Police believe the men…
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Fast Forward In Widely Condemned Remarks, Shas Rabbi Says Abbas ‘Should Perish’
On the eve of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the spiritual leader of the Shas Party wished for the demise of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this world,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef reportedly said during his weekly Saturday night sermon at a Jerusalem synagogue. “God should strike them…
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Fast Forward Obama’s Approval Rating Is Higher Among Jews
Jews gave President Obama an above-average job approval rating compared to other religious groups in the U.S. A Gallup pole released Friday found that Muslims gave Obama the highest job approval rating out of the religious groups poled, while Mormons gave him the lowest. Jews and those affiliated with other non-Christian religions gave him above…
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