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Fast Forward Israel Seeks Closure in Hezbollah Prisoner Deal
Jerusalem — Two years after they disappeared into Lebanese captivity, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are returning to Israel. But it’s unlikely to be a happy homecoming for the army reservists. According to Israeli assessments, Goldwasser and Regev died as a result of the Hezbollah border ambush in which they were captured and which triggered…
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Fast Forward New French Chief Rabbi Elected
The French Jewish community elected a new chief rabbi. Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, 56, defeated the longtime incumbent, Rabbi Joseph Sitruk, by a vote of 184 to 99 in Sunday’s election for the seven-year term. Sitruk, 63, is in his third term as the spiritual head of France’s 600,000 Jews. He had defeated Bernheim in 1994…
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Fast Forward As Furor Grows in Wake of Immigration Raid, Kosher Meat Company Seeks New CEO
Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid. Aaron Rubashkin, the founder of Agriprocessors, announced May 23 that he…
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Fast Forward American Engineer Arrested on Charges of Spying for Israel
Washington — U.S. authorities arrested an American for spying for Israel. The Justice Department disclosed Tuesday that Ben-Ami Kadish, a mechanical engineer at a U.S. Army facility in Dover, N.J., was arrested on charges of relaying secrets to Israel from 1979 to 1985, including nuclear secrets. Kadish speaks Hebrew and has an Israeli brother, according…
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Fast Forward In Speech on Race, Obama Rebuts His Pastor’s View on Israel
In a bid to quell growing unease about his relationship with a black preacher known for strident rhetoric, Barack Obama described the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s views on America — including its relationship with Israel — as fundamentally “distorted.” Obama addressed the issue during a hastily scheduled speech in Philadelphia, days after the media began airing…
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News Howard Metzenbaum, 90, Former Ohio Senator
Former Ohio senator Howard Metzenbaum has died at the age of 90. Metzenbaum was Ohio’s first Jewish senator, after being appointed by Ohio governor John Gilligan to fill an unexpired term in late 1973. He won a seat in 1976 and served three full terms, retiring in 1995. Metzenbaum died March 12 at his home…
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Fast Forward Spitzer’s Successor Is Well-Liked by State’s Jewish Leaders
Barely two days after news broke that Eliot Spitzer had consorted with a prostitute in a Washington hotel room in February, and before the New York governor had even announced his resignation, Jewish leaders already were kvelling over his successor, Lt.-Gov. David Paterson. “He’s great,” said New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents predominantly…
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Fast Forward Spitzer Scandal’s Israeli Angle Feels Like Deja Vu
Washington — A fast-rising Democratic governor, an out of control sex drive and an Israeli enabler — it feels like deja vu all over again on the Hudson. Just four years after the then-governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, resigned amid revelations of an affair with his Israeli-born ex-homeland security chief, Golan Cipel, Americans were…
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