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News Rioting Erupts in Jerusalem
Tensions between Israelis and Arabs simmered as Arab rioters clashed with Israeli police and Palestinian leaders accused Israel of trying to “Judaize” Jerusalem. The clashes began on September 27, the eve of Yom Kippur, when some 150 Arabs stoned a dozen or so Jews visiting the Temple Mount. Riots spread to several Arab neighborhoods in…
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Fast Forward Congressman Regrets Using the Term ‘Holocaust’ in Health Care Debate
A Florida congressman says he regrets using the term “holocaust” to describe the state of the U.S. health care system. “I am Jewish and have relatives who died in the Holocaust,” U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, a Democrat, wrote in a letter last Friday to the Florida regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Andrew Rosenkranz. “In…
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Fast Forward U.S. to Israel: Investigate Goldstone Report Allegations
The Obama administration is urging Israel to address the allegations in the Goldstone Commission report. “We felt very strongly that while these investigations should be investigated and addressed, that we thought on the one hand that Israel had the kind of institutions that could address these allegations,” Ian Kelly, a State Department spokesman, said Monday,…
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News Fearing Arrest, Ya’alon Cancels Britain Trip
An Israeli deputy prime minister canceled a planned trip to Britain out of fear that he would be arrested. Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon was scheduled to attend a fund-raising dinner by the British Jewish National Fund on behalf of Benji’s Home, for Israeli soldiers with no family in the country. But the Israeli Foreign…
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Fast Forward British Newspaper: Ahmadinejad Was Born Jewish
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born to a Jewish family that converted to Islam when he was four years old, according to a British newspaper. The Daily Telegraph reported the discovery Saturday, based on Ahmadinejad’s original family name of Sabourjian. The newspaper published a picture of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during…
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Fast Forward Marek Edelman, Last Surviving Leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies
Tributes poured in following the death of Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis. Edelman died Friday in Warsaw at the age of 90. “He will remain in my memory as a fighting hero, a man of great courage,” said Shevach Weiss, former Israeli ambassador to Poland…
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Fast Forward Iran To Allow Inspectors To Visit Uranium Plant
Iran will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its second uranium enrichment plant. The concession, announced Thursday after a meeting in Geneva between representatives from Iran and major world powers, paved the way for a second meeting aimed at ending the Islamic Republic’s isolation in exchange for proof that it does not have a nuclear…
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Fast Forward Agriprocessors CFO Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
The former chief financial officer of the defunct Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant pleaded guilty to conspiracy. As part of a plea bargain, Mitchel Meltzer admitted Monday in U.S. District Court in Iowa that he conspired to make false statements to a bank. According to the Des Moines Register, Meltzer signed papers in February 2008 overstating…
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