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Fast Forward Bibi’s Flotilla Testimony: Israel Acted Lawfully
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a panel investigating the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla incident that Israeli commandos acted in accordance with international law. The Israeli leader also told the Turkel Commission on Monday that it was necessary to enforce the naval blockade of Gaza. Netanyahu was the first witness to appear before the Israeli panel appointed…
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Fast Forward High School in Israel Founder, Rabbi Morris Kipper, Dies
The founder of the high school in Israel program has died. Rabbi Morris Kipper, who founded in 1972 the Alexander Muss High School in Israel, died at his home in Miami. He was 79. The long-time resident of Miami founded the school with his wife Lenore and in partnership with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation….
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Fast Forward Shechitah Allowed in New Zealand Until Trial
A New Zealand judge has allowed the kosher slaughter of animals to resume until the lawsuit filed by the Jewish community against the government comes to trial. Justice Denis Clifford of the High Court in Wellington confirmed Monday that an agreement has been reached between the Jewish community and representatives of the Crown Law Office,…
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Fast Forward Kagan Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Elana Kagan was sworn in as the 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice. Kagan became the third Jewish justice on the current court, and the fourth woman ever to serve, when she was sworn in Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court building. The U.S. Senate approved the nomination of Kagan, the U.S….
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Fast Forward Parents Lose Custody of Child Named ‘Adolf Hitler’
A New Jersey appeals court ruled that parents who gave their children names linked to Nazism cannot have custody of the children. The court overturned a family court’s decision to return the three children, who had been removed from the home of their parents, Heath and Deborah Campbell, in January 2009. Adolf Hitler Campbell, JoyceLynn…
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Fast Forward Tony Judt, Historian, Scholar and Israel Critic, Is Dead at 62
Read an Arty Semite post on Judt’s passing here. History scholar and writer Tony Judt, a vocal critic of Israel after having lived there, has died. Judt, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, died last Friday at his home in New York, New York University announced. He was 62. Judt, a London…
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Fast Forward Elena Kagan Wins Senate Confirmation
Elena Kagan was confirmed as the U.S. Supreme Court’s 112th justice. The U.S. Senate approved the nomination of Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general, in a 63-37 vote Thursday. Kagan, 50, joins Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer as Jewish justices on the current high court. She also becomes the fourth woman to serve as a…
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Fast Forward AJC Hires Longtime AJCongress Staffer Marc Stern
Two weeks after the American Jewish Congress suspended its operations, the American Jewish Committee has hired the shuttered group’s highest-ranking professional. Marc Stern, former co-executive director and general counsel for the AJCongress, is the AJC’s new associate general counsel for legal activity, the AJC announced August 2. Stern had been at the AJCongress for 33…
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