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Fast Forward A Fairy Tale Book Signed By Anne Frank to be Auctioned
A children’s book in which Anne Frank signed her name is going on the auction block in New York valued at $20,000 to $30,000. A “well-worn” copy of Grimm’s fairy tales owned by the Jewish teen diarist who died in the Holocaust will be auctioned May 5 through Swann Auction Galleries, Agence France Press reported…
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Fast Forward Ex-NBA Star Nate Robinson Inks Deal With Israeli Hoops Team
Nate Robinson, a three-time winner of the NBA’s Slam Dunk Contest despite standing only 5-9, reportedly has agreed to a deal to play for the Israeli basketball team Hapoel Tel Aviv. International basketball reporter David Pick tweeted the news, which has since been picked up by other sports outlets, on Monday. Robinson, 31, who is…
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Fast Forward Trump Opts For ‘Important’ AIPAC Talk Over Fox Debate — So Network Cancels It
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he would skip the next Fox News debate to speak at the AIPAC conference, leading to the cancellation of the network’s event. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee added Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to the roster of presidential candidates who will address the conference being held March 20-22…
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Fast Forward U.K. Honors Sir Nicholas Winton — the ‘British Schindler’ — With Postage Stamp
Britain’s Royal Mail has issued a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler.” The first class stamp was issued on Tuesday, part of a set of six commemorative stamps honoring some of the United Kingdom’s greatest humanitarians and their achievements, the BBC reported. Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Nazi-occupied…
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Fast Forward Obama Administration Raps Israel for West Bank Land ‘Expropriation’
JERUSALEM — The U.S. State Department criticized Israel for “expropriation” of West Bank land around Jericho and near the Dead Sea. The declaration turning the 580 acres of West Bank land into Israeli state land was signed by the Civil Administration’s Head of the Government Property on March 10 during a visit to Israel and…
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Fast Forward Nazi Waffen SS Veterans Join Ultranationalist March in Latvia
Several hundred ultranationalists, including seven veterans of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS, marched through Riga on the independence day of the Baltic nation of Latvia. The march Wednesday, a controversial affair which is Europe’s only annual event by Waffen SS veterans, drew a handful of counter-protesters from Latvia’s Jewish community and about 40 anti-fascist activists, including…
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Fast Forward Don McLean Denies Wife’s Accusations That He Is Anti-Semitic
“American Pie” singer Don McLean has denied allegations from his “soon-to-be ex-wife” that he called her an anti-Semitic slur. “Among the many lies told about me by my soon to be ex-wife Patricia is the statement that 24 years ago I made an anti-semetic [sic] remark,” McLean wrote Monday on Twitter, misspelling his wife’s name,…
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Fast Forward Jerry Springer Says Republican Race Is Crazy Like His Show
Jerry Springer compared the behavior of the presidential candidates in this election season to the atmosphere on his famously boisterous talk show. “When I first started watching the Republican debates, I said if they’re going to start doing my show, they should start paying me,” Springer said in an MSNBC interview on Tuesday. “It’s one…
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