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Fast Forward Rahm Emanuel Backs Iran Deal
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he supports the Iran nuclear deal. Asked about it at a press conference Tuesday, Emanuel, a Democrat who is President Obama’s former chief of staff, said, according to the Chicago Tribune: “The simplest way to say it is, if I was in Congress, I would support the president’s initiative. But…
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Fast Forward Senator Bob Menendez Opposes Iran Deal
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey became second the Senate Democrat to oppose the Iran nuclear deal. The announcement by Menendez, the senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, came Tuesday during a speech at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. Charles Schumer of New York was the first Senate Democrat…
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee Stands by Holocaust Comment on Iran
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said he does not regret his that in forging a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is “marching Israelis to the door of the oven.” In a speech Tuesday in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, the site of what is believed to be the first capital of the…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found Outside London School
A Jewish girls school in London was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti for the second time in just over a month. A Nazi swastika, alongside the words “Yid s**t,” was found scrawled on the fence outside the Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School in the northeast part of the city on Monday, The Independent reported. London police…
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Fast Forward First Jewish Kindergarten Opens in Lodz
A Jerusalem-based group announced the opening of the first Jewish kindergarten in decades in the Polish city of Lodz. Shavei Israel, which tries to bring people with Jewish roots back into the Jewish fold, said Monday that the kindergarten would open in partnership with the city’s Jewish community of a few hundred members. The first…
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Fast Forward New Bible Museum Will House Israeli Antiquities Exhibit
The Museum of the Bible, set to open in Washington, D.C., in 2017, will house a large collection from the Israel Antiquities Authority. The authority, which oversees archaeological digs in Israel, will have a 4,000 square-foot exhibit space in the museum to show pieces from its collection of 2 million artifacts. The exhibit will be…
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Fast Forward Goldie Steinberg, Oldest Jewish Person, Dies at 114
Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest known Jewish person, died at age 114. Steinberg, according to Chabad.org, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s news site, died Sunday at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, New York. She was two months away from her 115th birthday. Steinberg was born in 1900, one of eight siblings. As…
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Fast Forward Diaspora Ministry To Probe Global ‘Lost Jews’ Claims
Israel’s Diaspora Ministry is establishing a committee to develop relations with groups that have Jewish ancestry or ties. Such groups include the Bnei Menashe, a community from eastern India that practices Judaism and has seen thousands of its members move to Israel and convert to Orthodox Judaism. Other groups with Jewish ancestry exist in Poland,…
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