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Fast Forward Las Vegas Paper Had Reporters Track Judge Overseeing Adelson Case
The company that owned the Las Vegas Review Journal asked the newspaper to monitor three judges, including one overseeing a lawsuit against Sheldon Adelson, prior to selling the newspaper to the casino magnate. Clark County, Nevada District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez has had contentious exchanges with Adelson and his lawyers during the wrongful termination lawsuit brought…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Lawyer to be First Openly Gay Likudnik in Knesset
A Tel Aviv attorney will be the first openly gay person to serve as a Knesset lawmaker for the right-wing Likud party. Amir Ohana, 39, is expected to be sworn in next week to fill the seat of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who resigned amid accusations of sexual assault. A major in the Israeli army…
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Fast Forward Second Brooklyn Hasid Cleared in 2013 Attack on Gay Black Man
Charges against a Hasidic man accused with four others of beating an African-American man in New York City have been dismissed. Joseph Fried, 27, is the second member of the group to have charges dropped in the 2013 assault in Brooklyn of college student Taj Patterson. Patterson, 24, lost vision in his right eye as…
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Fast Forward Lindsey Graham Drops Out of Republican Presidential Race
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, among the Republican presidential candidates close to the pro-Israel community, withdrew from the race for the nomination. Graham was never able to breach more than the low single digits in his bid for the nomination. The field has had as many as 18 candidates. “I’m going to suspend my campaign,” the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Defends Shin Bet Against Claims It Tortured Jewish Terror Suspects
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Jewish suspects in a July firebombing that killed three Palestinians, including an 18-month-old, have not been tortured despite allegations. “All investigations are carried out in accordance with the law, under the supervision of the attorney general and the courts,” Netanyahu said Monday during a meeting of the Likud…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Piano Great Andreja Preger, Holocaust Survivor and Nazi Fighter, Dies at 104
Andreja Preger, a noted concert pianist who survived the Holocaust as part of Yugoslavia’s anti-Nazi partisans, has died. Preger died on December 18 in Belgrade at the age of 104. Preger was born in Pecs, Hungary, but grew up in Zagreb, where he attended the local Jewish school. In addition to music, he studied law….
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Fast Forward Blackmailer of Sharon, Mass. Sex Scandal Rabbi Sentenced
A 31-year-old man was sentenced to four to five years in prison for extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Boston-area rabbi who was having an affair with a male teenager. Nicholas Zemeitus, who pleaded guilty last month to extortion and larceny for blackmailing Rabbi Barry Starr of Sharon, Massachusetts, also will face three…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Jewish Chief Justice in Mass. Assures Muslims Rights Safeguarded
BOSTON — The first Jewish chief justice of the highest court in Massachusetts assured Muslims that the state’s judicial system will protect their rights. Against a backdrop of vocal anti-Muslim sentiment across the United States, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s chief justice, Ralph Gants, addressed worshippers at the Islamic Society of Boston after midday prayers…
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