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Fast Forward Biblical Scholar Moshe Greenberg Dies
Moshe Greenberg, one of Judaism’s pre-eminent biblical scholars, has died. Greenberg, 81, died Saturday at his home in Jerusalem, one of his three sons told the Associated Press. Greenberg was the first recipient of the Israel Prize for biblical studies, in 1994. The Israel Prize, the nation’s highest civilian award, covers various fields and is…
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Fast Forward Chomsky To Lecture Palestinians Via Video After Denied Entrance To Israel
Jewish-American professor Noam Chomsky will lecture to Bir Zeit University students via video conference from Amman, after being denied entry into Israel and the West Bank. Chomsky, 81, a frequent critic of Israeli and American policies, was detained for four hours by Israeli security officials at the Allenby Bridge entry point from Jordan on Sunday….
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Fast Forward Iran Exchanges Nuclear Fuel in Turkey
Iran has agreed to ship some of its uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel exchange. Iran will swap more than 2,600 pounds of low-enriched uranium in exchange for higher-enriched uranium in order to power a medical research reactor. The uranium will be enriched to about 20 percent and available in about a year. Ninety…
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Fast Forward U.S. Jewish Leaders Urge Netanyahu To Withdraw Conversion Bill
Jewish leaders sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging the withdrawal of a proposed conversion bill it called “disastrous to the unity of the Jewish people.” The letter, signed by the leader of the Jewish Federations of North America and the heads of the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements and their rabbinical…
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Fast Forward British Election Results Give Liberal Democrats Sway
The inconclusive vote in Britain’s election on Thursday puts a political party considered critical of Israel in a key spot. Because no party finished with a clear majority in Thursday’s vote, the third-place Liberal Democrats may play the role of kingmaker in this election. Already, the Conservative party, which finished with an estimated 306 seats…
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Fast Forward Oren: Obama Did Not Snub Bibi
President Obama never snubbed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s U.S. ambassador said. Michael Oren ran through what he said were the distortions of a March 23 White House meeting between Netanyahu and Obama during a dinner he hosted this week for top Democrats. According to an account of Oren’s remarks prepared by the National Jewish…
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Fast Forward Arson Suspected in West Bank Mosque Fire
Israeli firefighters said that a fire in a West Bank mosque appears to be arson; extremist Jews are suspected. The investigators ruled out an electrical short as the cause of the early Tuesday fire that gutted the mosque and burned Muslim holy books in the Palestinian village of Luban al-Sharqiya, located near Nablus, the Associated…
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Fast Forward Report: Dershowitz Turned Down Job as Israel’s U.N. Ambassador
Alan Dershowitz reportedly turned down an offer to serve as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman assiduously courted the well-known Jewish-American lawyer, Yediot Achronot reported Tuesday. If he had accepted Israel’s most senior diplomatic post, Dershowitz , 72, would have had to make aliyah. Dershowitz…
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