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Fast Forward Veep Hopefuls Blast Opposing Tickets on Foreign Policy
The two vice-presidential candidates led the way Wednesday as the Obama and McCain campaigns worked to draw clear battle lines on Iran and Israel. In a highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention, Alaska Gov. and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin mocked U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for saying more than a year ago…
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Fast Forward McCain Taps Alaska Governor as Running Mate
Senator John McCain has tapped Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Palin, 44, has been governor for two years; the choice by McCain is seen as a bid to win over women disaffected by the defeat of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic Party primaries to Senator Barack Obama. McCain made…
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Fast Forward Kosher Supervisors Stage Walkout at Iowa Agriprocessors Plant
Kosher supervisors at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Iowa temporarily walked off the job. The 45-minute action Wednesday resulted from frustration over reduced pay, according to company spokesman Menachem Lubinsky. The Postville plant, whose kosher regulations prohibit any production when not under close rabbinic supervision, is said to be operational again. Lubinsky said the issue…
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Fast Forward Child Labor Allegations at Kosher Slaughterhouse Referred to Iowa Attorney General
In what could result in the first charges to be brought against upper management at Agriprocessors, the Iowa Labor Commissioner’s Office has sent dozens of alleged child labor violations to the state’s attorney general for prosecution. Completing a months-long investigation of the Postville-based company, which is the country’s largest kosher meat producer, the labor commissioner…
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Fast Forward Sparks Fly at Capitol Hill Hearing on Immigration Raid
Washington — Witnesses at recent congressional hearings described the federal immigration raid on the country’s largest kosher plant as a travesty of justice, a national disgrace and an ambush. But comparing the government detention facilities where 300 illegal workers arrested in the May 12 raid were detained to concentration camps was too much for one…
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Fast Forward Activists Descend on Postville in Show of Solidarity With Meat Plant’s Workers
Postville, Iowa — When busloads of Jews from Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin started pulling up outside St. Bridget’s Catholic Church Sunday morning, and more than 350 people, some sporting yarmulkes, poured out to take part in a big immigration rally planned for the afternoon, locals noticed. “We weren’t expecting so many Jews to show up,”…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Returns Bodies of Two Captured Israeli Soldiers
Jerusalem — Two black caskets, laid out by Hezbollah officials on the sun-drenched tarmac of a Lebanese border crossing, unceremoniously put to rest one of Israel’s most wrenching hostage ordeals. The bodies of Israeli reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev returned home for burial Wednesday, two years and four days after they were seized in…
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News Attack Raises Questions About East Jerusalem
Jerusalem — The deadly terrorist attack by an Arab bulldozer driver on a crowded street here Wednesday raised questions anew about how Israeli authorities can protect against attacks by lone assailants from eastern Jerusalem. At least three people were killed and dozens injured in the noontime attack on Jaffa Road. Husam Duwayat, a 30-year-old father…
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