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Fast Forward Obama Calls Shimon Peres To Wish Him Well After Heart Attack
JERUSALEM — U.S. President Barack Obama called former Israeli President Shimon Peres to wish him well after his recent heart attack. During their conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their long friendship, a statement from Peres’ office said. “I left hospital stronger than I entered,” Peres told Obama in praising his medical team at Sheba Medical…
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Fast Forward U.S.-Bound Iranian Couple Arrested Carrying Forged Israeli Passports
An Iranian couple was arrested while trying to board a British Airways flight in India because they were carrying forged Israeli passports. The couple, who tried to board the flight on Thursday at Chennai Airport, also carried their original Iranian passports, the New Indian Express reported on Saturday. The couple, who met and married while…
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Fast Forward Lost-in-Trash $10K Diamond Engagement Ring Found in Jerusalem
A diamond engagement ring accidentally thrown in a garbage dumpster by a bride-to-be was recovered days after haredi Orthodox volunteers sifted through tons of garbage. The ring, worth more than $10,000, was lost Thursday in the haredi Orthodox community of Geula in Jerusalem when it was accidentally emptied into a home garbage receptacle and then…
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Fast Forward Obama To Attend ‘Righteous Gentile’ Ceremony at Israeli Embassy
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will speak at a ceremony honoring Righteous Among the Nations at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., a sign of warmed ties between Obama and Israel’s government. Obama’s appearance at the Jan. 27 ceremony, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and conducted together with Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial authority, is…
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Fast Forward Pinkwashing Protesters Shut Down Gay Jewish Shabbat Event
Hundreds of protesters sought to disrupt a Shabbat service and reception for Jewish participants at a gay activism conference in Chicago. Chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, pinkwashing has got to go,” the protesters streamed through the Hilton Chicago on Friday night toward the service hosted by A Wider Bridge, a Jewish LGBTQ organization that seeks…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Campaign Takes Shot at Bernie Sanders Over Israel
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign took aim at her rival Bernie Sanders’ Middle East policies, saying they would leave Israel vulnerable. Jake Sullivan, a foreign policy adviser to Clinton who also served with her when she was secretary of state, depicted as dangerous Sanders’ proposal to normalize relations with Iran, made during the most recent debate…
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Fast Forward Slain Scarsdale Pediatrician Mourned by Hundreds at Tearful Funeral
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of a Jewish pediatrician who police say was fatally stabbed by her husband in their suburban New York home. Robin Goldman’s funeral Thursday was held at Young Israel of Scarsdale, an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Westchester County where she and her husband, Jules Reich, were longtime members. Goldman, 58,…
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Fast Forward Walter Reed, Wrote of Childhood Rescue From Nazi, Dies at 91
Walter W. Reed, who last year published a book about his experience hiding from the Nazis with about 100 other Jewish children, has died at 91. Reed, a regular speaker at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, died Jan. 13 in his Chicago-area home, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday. Reed’s “The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi…
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