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Fast Forward Carter to Israel, Gaza
Jimmy Carter will visit Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The former U.S. president was in Lebanon to monitor Sunday’s elections. Media have said that he will continue this week to Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Some accounts say the tour will be private, while others say he will be promoting…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Defeated in Lebanese Vote
Preliminary election results in Lebanon show that an American-backed alliance has defeated Hezbollah. The March 14 coalition reportedly has retained a majority in the 128-seat Parliament, according to reports, but Hezbollah will still have a place in the Lebanese government. The United States and Israel consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization. About 55 percent…
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Fast Forward Obama Visits Buchenwald
President Barack Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp site, calling it “the ultimate rebuke” to Holocaust deniers. Obama joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust memoirist who was a Buchenwald inmate, on the tour on Friday, a day after Obama called on the Muslim world to reject Holocaust denial. “To this day,…
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Fast Forward Obama Reiterates Call for Two-State Solution in Cairo
Reiterating his call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, President Obama called on each side to see the conflict through the eyes of the other. In a wide-ranging address in Cairo on Thursday that touched upon America’s history with Muslims, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation, and the need for…
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News New Converso Rabbi Hopes To Help Others Follow His Jewish Path
Of all the rabbis ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary on May 21, few have journeys to the rabbinate quite as unlikely as Juan Mejia. Raised as a Catholic in Colombia and educated at Christian schools, Mejia was on his way to becoming a monk when he discovered as a teenager that his family had…
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Fast Forward New York’s Pro-Israel March Draws 100,000
More than 100,000 people attended an annual pro-Israel march in New York City. Sunday’s Salute to Israel parade, which honored the city of Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary, was attended by the parents of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who were welcomed by the parade’s Grand Marshall, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The march down Manhattan’s…
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News Si Frumkin, 78, Soviet Jewry Activist
Leading Soviet Jewry and human rights activist Si Frumkin has died. Frumkin, who founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews in 1968 and helped make it a mainstream American cause, died May 15 after battling cancer. He was 78. At a packed funeral service on May 19, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky eulogized…
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Fast Forward Amos Elon, Historian and Essayist, Is Dead at 82
Amos Elon, the distinguished Israeli essayist and historian, died at his home in Tuscany. Elon’s wife, Beth, told The New York Times that he died Monday from leukemia at the age of 82. Elon, one of Israel’s most distinguished essayists and historians, was born in Vienna in 1926 and moved with his family to Palestine…
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