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Fast Forward ADL Comes Out Against Iran Deal
The Anti-Defamation League counseled Congress to reject the Iran nuclear deal. “Given the outstanding questions and our deep reservations about the agreement, we believe Congress should vote no on the deal,” Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL’s national chairman, and Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s national director, said in a statement released Thursday evening. ADL last month had expressed reservations…
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Fast Forward Al Franken Is Fifth Jewish Senator To Back Iran Deal
Sen. Al Franken endorsed the Iran nuclear deal, becoming the fifth of nine Jewish senators to back the agreement. “Many have expressed reservations about the deal, and I share some of those reservations,” Franken, D-Minn., wrote in an Op-Ed on CNN’s website. “It isn’t a perfect agreement,” he said. “But it is a strong one….
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Fast Forward Extremists Torch Bedouin Tent in West Bank
A tent in a West Bank Bedouin village was set on fire in a suspected arson attack. The tent in a village located north of Ramallah, which was used for storage and unoccupied at the time of the fire, was burned completely early Thursday morning, according to reports. Graffiti spray painted on a rock near…
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Fast Forward British Labor Leader Backed Pastor Who Blamed 9/11 on Israel
Jeremy Corbyn, a Parliament member who is on track to become the head of Britain’s Labor Party, wrote a letter in support of a priest who claimed that Israel and wealthy Jews were behind the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Corbyn defended Rev. Stephen Sizer, who in February posted an article on Facebook…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Pulls Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders surpassed front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton as the leading Democratic presidential candidate in a poll of New Hampshire voters. Sanders, who is Jewish, led Clinton 44-37 percent among the 442 likely Democratic primary voters who responded in the Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll released Wednesday. It was the first survey of voters…
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Fast Forward Jewish Swimmer Loses Arm in Florida Alligator Attack
A Jewish woman lost her arm to a severe alligator bite while she was swimming alone in a Florida river. Rachael Lilienthal, 37, of Orlando, was attacked by an alligator in the Wekiva River in central Florida on Saturday afternoon. According to media reports, Lilienthal was repeatedly pulled underwater and bitten by the alligator. Kayakers…
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Fast Forward Remake of ‘Daisy’ Ad Takes Aim at Iran Deal
An interfaith organization launched a nationwide campaign against the Iran nuclear agreement featuring a video that recalls a controversial political ad from 50 years ago. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a pro-Israel group, announced the campaign on Tuesday, urging millions of Christians to lobby Congress against the deal reached last month between Iran…
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Fast Forward Energy Secretary Will Pitch Iran Deal to Jews
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will make the case for the Iran nuclear deal to American Jews. Moniz, a nuclear physicist, will appear Thursday via a webcast sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. He was one of the lead negotiators in the sanctions relief for nuclear…
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