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Fast Forward Netanyahu Offers Alternatives to Iran Deal After Obama Criticism
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the international community to negotiate a better deal with Iran on its nuclear program and offered alternatives. Netanyahu’s statement on Sunday came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that Netanyahu has not provided any alternatives to the framework agreement signed earlier this month. “The prime…
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Fast Forward Kerry Meets Jewish Leaders To Discuss Iran Deal
Top Obama administration officials met for two hours with U.S. Jewish community leaders to discuss the emerging Iran nuclear deal. Represented at the April 8 meeting were Secretary of State John Kerry and his undersecretary, Wendy Sherman, who is leading the U.S. side in the nuclear talks. On the Jewish organizational side, representatives of the…
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Fast Forward Kosher Deli in Copenhagen Vandalized With ‘Jewish Pigs’ Graffiti
A Jewish deli and kosher supermarket in Copenhagen was vandalized. A window of the store was smashed and anti-Semitic epithets were scrawled on the wall, including “Jewish pigs,” The Local reported, citing the Berlingske Tidende newspaper. The attack, which was discovered on Thursday at Slagter & Delikatesse, comes less than two months after a terror…
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Fast Forward After Getting Out Jewish Vote for Obama, Eric Lynn Runs for Congress in Florida
Eric Lynn, a one-time liaison between the Obama presidential campaign and the Jewish community, is running for Congress in Florida. Lynn, 36 and a Democrat, last week launched a challenge against incumbent Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.). Lynn is from the Tampa-area district, having graduated from high school in St. Petersburg. He now works in the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Heirs Get Slice of $18M From Looted Monet ‘Haystacks’
The heirs of a French Jewish art dealer killed in a Nazi concentration camp will get a piece of the upcoming sale at Christie’s of a Monet painting looted by the Nazis and acquired after the war by a Swiss collector. The painting, “Haystacks at Giverny,” was painted by Claude Monet in 1885 and is…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Cheer Boston Marathon Guilty Verdict
Jewish groups praised the guilty verdict in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted on all 30 charges Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Boston. The explosions at the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon set by Tsarnaev and his brother killed three, including an 8-year-old boy, and also injured more than 240,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourist Dies in Peru Zipline Mishap
An Israeli hiker was killed when a zip-line platform collapsed in Peru. Max Sela, 24, of Shoham in central Israel, died at the scene of the accident at the Cola de Mono zip-lining site in the Machu Picchu region. The zip-line is a major tourist attraction. Sela was climbing the ramp to the platform, which…
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Fast Forward Argentina To Bare Documents Tied to Israel Embassy Bombing
The Argentinian government will desclassify all intelligence documents about the March 17,1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people and wounded hundreds. The measure was announced Thursday on the government’s website for records of public proceedings, Official Gazette. The move is a response to a request made Wednesday by the…
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