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Fast Forward Canadian Couple Plotted To Kill Jewish Children at Synagogue
A Canadian couple convicted of plotting to bomb the British Columbia legislature wanted to infiltrate a synagogue and kill “small Jews” to save the children from going to hell, according to court documents. Police notes presented in British Columbia’s Supreme Court in Vancouver this week recounted Amanda Korody’s husband, John Nuttall, telling an undercover officer…
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Fast Forward Samuel Pisar, Aide to JFK, Dies at 86
Samuel Pisar, a Holocaust survivor who went to become a lawyer and writer, as well as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, has died. Pisar, 86, died Monday in New York, it was announced Tuesday. _ A native of Poland, Pisar spent time in several Nazi camps, including Majdanek, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He…
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Fast Forward Americans Split on Iran Deal, Poll Says
A slight majority of Americans want Congress to reject the Iran nuclear deal, a CNN poll found. The poll published Tuesday showed that 52 percent of respondents wanted Congress to reject the deal and 44 percent wanted it approved. The phone poll of 1,017 adults, conducted by ORC International between July 22 and 25, has…
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Fast Forward Police Remove Hundreds of Israelis From Illegal Settlement
Hundreds of Israel Police officers removed about 200 young adult demonstrators from two illegal apartment buildings slated for demolition in the Beit El settlement. Some 50 demonstrators were arrested, and the rest were dispersed using riot control measures early Tuesday morning. Police reportedly had arrived in the settlement in the early hours of the morning…
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Fast Forward 5 Ex-Ambassadors to Israel Back Iran Deal
Five former U.S. ambassadors to Israel sent a letter to Congress in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. James Cunningham, William Harrop, Daniel Kurtzer, Thomas Pickering and Edward Walker Jr. signed the letter, along with R. Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and ambassador to NATO, and Frank Wisner, former undersecretary of…
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Fast Forward International Criminal Court Won’t Reopen Gaza Flotilla Case
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has rejected a panel of judges’ request to reconsider her decision not to investigate war crimes allegations in the Mavi Marmara flotilla case. The office of Fatou Bensouda has appealed to the ICC appeals court regarding its decision on July 16 to order her by a vote of 2-1…
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman Presses Chuck Schumer To Oppose Iran Deal
Former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman is pressuring a top Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, to block the Iran nuclear deal. Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew who was a vice presidential candidate in 2000, said in an interview that “Chuck is the key” to blocking the deal. Schumer also is Jewish. “I just can’t believe…
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Fast Forward Israeli Rabbi Charged With Abusing 13 Women
A Safed rabbi was indicted on 13 counts of grave sexual crimes against women who had turned to him with religious questions. Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, 46, was charged Monday in the Nazareth District Court, Israel Radio reported. The charges include rape, indecent assault, sexual harassment, fraud and obstructing an investigation, Ynet reported. The prosecution asked…
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