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Fast Forward Republican Jews Hail Brown Victory in Mass.
The Republican Jewish Coalition hailed the party’s victory in the special election in Massachusetts to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward Kennedy. State Sen. Scott Brown won 52 percent of the vote in defeating state Attorney General Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s election. Brown has said he will oppose a bill to…
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Fast Forward Vatican, Rabbis: Faith Is the Answer to ‘Technological Exploitation’
A return to religious faith is needed to confront a “unique environmental crisis” brought on by technology, the Vatican and the Israeli Chief Rabbinate warned. Wednesday’s warning came in a statement after the ninth meeting of the Bilateral Commission of the Holy See and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, held in Rome Jan. 17-20 following…
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Fast Forward Frank Gehry Withdraws from Museum of Tolerance Project
Award-winning architect Frank Gehry has withdrawn from the project to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Haaretz reported last week that Gehry was leaving the project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center amid controversy over the fact that the museum was to be built on the site of a former Muslim cemetery. The withdrawal is…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Ben-Gurion University To Establish Yiddish Studies Center
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is establishing Israel’s newest center for Yiddish studies. David G. Roskies, professor of Yiddish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, has been tapped to head the new center, located in Beersheba. The center will host workshops and colloquia, publish forgotten Yiddish works, and collaborate with Yiddish research…
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Fast Forward Israeli Team Assists Haitians; Video From IDF Field Hospital
An Israel Defense Forces medical and rescue team has set up a field hospital and begun treating earthquake-stricken Haitians. The Israeli field hospital became operational on Saturday. At the start of Sunday’s regular Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli team had already treated hundreds of patients. “I think that this is…
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Fast Forward Israeli Aid Workers Have Trouble Reaching Haiti
Israeli relief workers on their way to Haiti are having trouble getting into the earthquake-stricken country. The first of Israel’s humanitarian, medical and search-and-rescue teams – a government-sponsored team led by the Israel Defense Forces – reportedly have arrived in the country, but civilian aid agencies are still struggling to find ways into Port-au-Prince. Tuesday’s…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Murray Saltzman, Civil Rights Leader, Is Dead at 80
Rabbi Murray Saltzman, a national figure in the civil rights movement and spiritual leader at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation for nearly two decades, has died. Saltzman died of pancreatic cancer Jan. 5 at the Hope Hospice Center in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 80. For the past 14 years he lived in Fort Myers and…
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Fast Forward Pressure Building To Re-start Peace Talks
Calls are mounting in Washington for the launch of new Israeli-Palestinian talks. After meeting January 8 with Jordanian and Egyptian officials in Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was calling for talks without preconditions focused on all the final-status issues, including not only borders but also Jerusalem, refugees and water rights. Clinton’s…
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