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Fast Forward Pope Benedict, in Bethlehem, Calls for ‘Sovereign Palestinian Homeland’
Pope Benedict XVI called for a “sovereign Palestinian homeland” during a visit to Bethlehem. The pontiff spoke Wednesday at the start of a one-day visit to the West Bank. He offered words of greeting to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the beginning of his visit. “The Holy See supports the right of your people…
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News Yad Vashem Chairman: Pope’s Address Was Lacking
The chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Council said the pope’s address at the Holocaust memorial museum did not go far enough. “A few points were missing in the pope’s address,” Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, a former chief rabbi of Israel, told Israel’s Channel 1 Monday shortly after Pope Benedict XVI visited the Hall of Remembrance….
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News N.Y. Rabbi Sentenced to 30 Years for Molesting Daughter
A New York rabbi was sentenced to 30 years in prison for molesting his daughter. Rabbi Israel Weingarten was found guilty of sexually abusing his daughter, now 27, between the ages of 6 and 16. Weingarten represented himself during his trial in Brooklyn federal court. Judge John Gleeson told Weingarten during the sentencing Friday that…
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Fast Forward White House Official: Israel Should Sign Non-Proliferation Treaty
An Obama administration official said Israel should sign on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gotemoeller told a meeting of the 189 signatories of the treaty that “universal adherence to the NPT itself, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea,” remains “a fundamental objective of the United States,” according to…
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Fast Forward At Aipac Conference, Biden Calls for Settlement Freeze
Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. John Kerry pledged to confront Iran and protect Israel, but called on the Jewish state to freeze settlements. In their addresses Tuesday on the closing day of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, both said President Obama was committed to removing Iran’s nuclear threat. Biden said…
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Fast Forward Ceremonies Honor Fallen Israeli Soldiers
Israel began its Memorial Day observance with a one-minute siren and the lighting of a memorial flame at the Western Wall. Memorial Day began Tuesday night with a national ceremony at the Wall. President Shimon Peres and the widow of the last soldier to be killed in action in Gaza, Yehonatan Netanel, lit the memorial…
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Fast Forward Brazil’s Jews Protest Ahmadinejad Visit
Thousands of Brazilian Jews rallied to protest next month’s scheduled visit to their country by Iran’s president and to remember the Holocaust. Some 2,500 people participated Sunday in the ninth annual Regional March of the Living in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city and home to half of the country’s 120,000-member Jewish community. Dressed in white,…
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Fast Forward King Abdullah: Solving Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Will Heal Entire Region
Solving the core issue of the Israeli-Palestinian “problem” and that of Jerusalem will solve all the problems in the region, Jordan’s King Abdullah said. Abdullah, on Sunday’s “Meet The Press,” also said the United States must take a strong role in peace talks. “The only way that we’re going to be able to solve this…
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