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Fast Forward Rabbi Shmuley Mulls Run for Public Office
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says he is considering a run for public office after local officials failed to prevent a Libyan ambassador from moving in next door to him. In an opinion piece published Thursday by JTA, Boteach said he was outraged that Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations, Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, was permitted to take…
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Fast Forward Federal Judge Closes Kosher Poultry Slaughterhouse
A kosher poultry slaughterhouse has been shut down due to unsanitary conditions. Federal Judge Stephen C. Robinson of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday ordered the New Square kosher poultry slaughterhouse closed after years of attempts by the USDA to force the plant to comply with the…
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Fast Forward Solow Rips Anti-Semitism Envoy Over Her Response to Oren’s J Street Remarks
A major Jewish communal leader is criticizing the Obama administration’s top official dealing with anti-Semitism. Alan Solow, a longtime backer of President Obama and chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued a statement criticizing the U.S. offical, Hannah Rosenthal. At issue is a report in Ha’aretz stating that Rosenthal criticized…
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Fast Forward Madoff Reportedly Assaulted in Prison
Bernard Madoff was reportedly hospitalized for injuries consistent with an assault. A North Carolina television station reported on its Web site Thursday that Madoff was hospitalized at Duke University Hospital last week with facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman later said that Madoff is being treated in…
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Fast Forward German Mediator To Meet With Hamas About Shalit Swap
The German mediator in the Gilad Shalit prison swap negotiations arrived in Gaza and is meeting with Hamas officials. The mediator arrived in Gaza Wednesday to deliver Israel?s response to the proposed prisoner exchange that would bring the captured Israeli soldier home after more than three years in captivity in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s…
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Fast Forward E.U.’s Human Rights Court: Bosnia Discriminated Against Jews, Roma
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the exclusion of Jews and Roma from Bosnia?s highest state offices is unlawful discrimination. Tuesday?s ruling is ?a major step forward in Europe?s struggle against discrimination and ethnic conflict,? said Sheri Rosenberg, co-counsel for Jakob Finci and a professor and director of the Human Rights Clinic at…
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Fast Forward Bibi’s Cabinet Gives Go-Ahead To Negotiate for Shalit Release
Benjamin Netanyahu?s inner cabinet has given Israel?s negotiating team the go-ahead to continue talks for the release of soldier Gilad Shalit. A fifth meeting of the prime minister and his seven senior Cabinet ministers ended early Tuesday morning. A statement released by the Prime Minister?s office shortly after the end of the meeting said that…
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Fast Forward Chasidic Grand Rebbe Sentenced to Prison
The head of a Brooklyn-based Chasidic sect was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a decade-long fraud and money-laundering scheme. Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz, Grand Rebbe of the Spinka sect, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Weisz, 61, had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy before U.S. District…
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