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Fast Forward Google Launches ‘Palestinian Territories’ Domain
Google launched a Palestinian domain with the words “Palestinian Territories” added to its logo. The new domain, which went online Aug. 13 and becomes Google’s 160th separate domain, will allow Palestinians direct access to Google in Arabic, Ynet reported. Palestinian users have had to visit other country’s domains to use the search engine in Arabic.
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Fast Forward First-Ever Jew Elected to Fatah Party Council
A former Israeli Jew was elected to the Palestinian Fatah Party’s governing body. Uri Davis, 66, a sociology professor at Al-Quds University in eastern Jerusalem, is the first Jew ever to become a member of the Revolutionary Council. Elections were held last week during Fatah’s sixth party congress, its first in 20 years. The official…
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Fast Forward Former Hadassah Exec Says She Had an Affair With Madoff
A former chief financial officer at Hadassah is claiming that she had an affair with Bernard Madoff. Sheryl Weinstein reportedly makes the claim in her book “Madoff’s Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me,” which is set to be published Aug. 25 by St. Martin’s Press. Weinstein, an accountant, has said previously that she lost…
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Fast Forward Josef Burg, Yiddish Author, Is Dead at 97
The award-winning Yiddish author Josef Burg has died at the age of 97 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Burg died Monday of a stroke, according to Austria’s Theodor Kramer Society, which presented Burg with a literary award earlier this year. Before World War I Chernivtsi, known as Czernowitz in German and Yiddish, was the capital of the…
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Fast Forward Convicted Barghouti Voted to Fatah’s New Leadership
Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison, was among those elected to the Palestinian Fatah Party’s new leadership. The election results for Fatah’s Central Committee were finalized Tuesday, at the end of the party’s first congress in 20 years. Only three incumbents were returned to the committee, marking a decision…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leader Endorses Republishing ‘Mein Kampf’
A German Jewish leader has endorsed publication of an annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” The Institute for Contemporary History in Munich applied last week for permission to reprint the work, which institute director Horst Möller once called an “effective piece of drivel.” Hitler had left the printing rights to the state of Bavaria,…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Mayor Is Target of Violent Attacks by Haredim
Fervently Orthodox Jews mobbed Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and threw stones at his car. The mayor’s car was damaged in Sunday evening’s attack, which occurred as Barkat was leaving a personal meeting with a prominent Jerusalem rabbi in the Ezrat Torah neighborhood. Police were called to bring the mayor to safety. “I will not succumb…
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News U.S. Intel: Iran Won’t Have a Bomb for at Least Four Years
Iran won’t have the capacity to produce highly enriched uranium until 2013 and has yet to decide to produce a bomb, according to U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears in answers produced in April by the director for U.S. national intelligence, Dennis Blair, in response to congressional inquiries; the document was declassified this week through the…
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