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Fast Forward Netanyahu Sends Condolences to Biden Over Son’s Death
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences to Vice President Joe Biden on the death of his son, Beau. Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware, died Sunday of brain cancer. He was 46. “Vice President Biden spoke many times to me about Beau over the years, we’ve known each other for many, many…
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Fast Forward Cop Fired for Beating Ethiopian-Israeli Insists He Acted Properly
The Israeli police officer who was fired for beating an Ethiopian-Israel soldier said he acted properly in his attempt to arrest and subdue the soldier, who had entered a closed-off area. Identified by the Israeli news website Ynet as Sgt. Maj. Y., the officer agreed to be interviewed after the soldier, Damas Pakada, filed a…
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Fast Forward Burial Set for Elderly Jewish Couple Who Died in Houston Flooding
Funeral services were set for an elderly Jewish couple who drowned in the floods that swept through Houston last week. Shirley and Jack Alter, who died when their rescue boat capsized in the rushing floodwaters, were scheduled to be buried Sunday at the Congregation Beth Yeshurun Cemetery in Houston. The boat suffered engine failure before…
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Fast Forward At Jerusalem ‘SlutWalk,’ Women Protest Rape and Victim-Blaming
Several hundred people, many of them high school students, marched through Jerusalem in an annual protest against rape and a perceived tendency to blame rape victims. Israel’s fourth annual SlutWalk, held Friday, promoted the message that women should be free from sexual harassment even when wearing revealing clothing. As at other SlutWalks in Israel and…
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Fast Forward ‘God Particle’ Physicist Sells His Nobel Prize at Auction
The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics won by American experimental physicist Leon Lederman sold at auction for $765,002. The online auction conducted by Los Angeles-based Nate D. Sanders Auctions closed on Sunday evening. Lederman, 92, and his wife, Ellen, decided to sell the medal after he received a diagnosis of dementia, the Associated Press reported….
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Fast Forward U.S. Paid $20.2 Million in Social Security Benefits to Suspected Nazis: Report
The United States Social Security Administration paid out some $20.2 million in retirement benefits to suspected Nazi war criminals and other Nazi collaborators. A report prepared by the Social Security Administration’s inspector general, scheduled to be released to the public next week but obtained and reported by the Associated Press on Sunday, showed that some…
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Fast Forward British Jewish Woman Wins $25k in Religious Discrimination Suit
(JTA) —A British Jewish woman won $25,000 in damages from a company that refused to hire her because she is Shabbat observant. Aurelie Fhima applied to Travel Jigsaw in Manchester, but was rejected after she said at a job interview that her religious observance prevents her from working on Friday nights and Saturdays, the Telegraph…
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Fast Forward Child Holocaust Survivors Get $60 Million — In a Single Day
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Claims Conference sent out payments totaling about $60 million in a single day last week – the first of an estimated 70,000 one-time payments of approximately $2,750 to child survivors of the Holocaust. The payments follow the creation last year of a new $190 million Child Survivor Fund that offers…
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