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Fast Forward Rights Group Report: Hamas Committed War Crimes
Rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel’s South amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said. In a report issued Wednesday, the group said the indiscriminate nature of the rockets, the dense civilian population in the general area of where the rockets are aimed, and statements from the leadership of Gaza’s Hamas rulers…
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Fast Forward Barak: U.S. To Unveil New Peace Initiative
President Obama will soon unveil a new Middle East peace initiative, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. Speaking Tuesday at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Barak said the initiative’s details were still in the works. “We’re in talks with them and the other regional players, including the Palestinians, are also in talks with…
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Fast Forward Amos Kenan, Israeli Writer and Artist, Dies at 82
Amos Kenan, the Israeli artist and writer who scandalized his countrymen with his iconoclasm, has died at 82. He died Tuesday after struggling for years with Alzheimer’s disease, reports said. Kenan, born in Tel Aviv, was a fighter in the pre-state underground Lehi movement and an early member of the Canaanite movement, which envisioned a…
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Fast Forward Victims of Tel Aviv Shooting Mourned in Washington
An Orthodox rabbi spoke out against anti-gay rhetoric in the Orthodox community at a Washington vigil mourning two Jews slain at a gay center in Tel Aviv. “It’s time to do some internal accounting” as to whether such “rhetoric has created this climate” that allows for violence and “vilification” of gays and lesbians, Rabbi Shmuel…
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Fast Forward Mayor Bloomberg Skirted Law To Fund Jewish Groups
The mayor of New York City violated government contracting rules in funneling money to two Jewish groups, The New York Times reported. Between 2002 and 2006, the Times wrote, the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $1.1 million to the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America and $400,000 to Ohel Children’s Services from a special…
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Fast Forward Haredi Mother, Whose Arrest Sparked Riots, Faces Indictment
The fervently Orthodox mother accused of starving her 3-year-old son will be indicted for abuse. The State Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that it would bring charges of child abuse and other offenses. The woman is under house arrest and has not been allowed to see her son, who was released recently from the hospital, where…
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Fast Forward Woman Charged in Slaying of Holocaust Survivor
A Bronx woman was charged in the murder of an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. Angela Murray was arraigned Sunday on charges of robbery and murder in the death of Guido Felix Brinkmann, who was discovered bound and beaten last week in his New York City apartment, the Daily News reported. Police are also seeking Murray’s companion…
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Fast Forward Lieberman Says He Will Resign If Indicted
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he would resign his position if he is indicted in a money-laundering scheme. Lieberman also told his Yisrael Beitenu party in a meeting Monday, a day after the Israeli Police’s National Fraud Unit recommended that the state prosecutor indict him on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment…
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