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Fast Forward Argentina President Calls Terror Bombings ‘Collateral Damage’
Argentina’s president called the deadly attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in 1994 and the attack on the Israeli Embassy in 1992 “collateral damages in a war in which we had never been part, nor want to be.” The comments by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, published in an article on her website, were…
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Fast Forward New York Schools To Close on Muslim Holidays
New York will become the first major city to close its public schools for Muslim holidays. Schools will be shuttered for the Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays, which rotate around the secular calendar because they are pegged to the Muslim non-leap lunar calendar. Several other smaller municipalities already close their schools for those holy…
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Fast Forward Suburban Detroit Synagogue Gets $10M for Music Program
A synagogue in suburban Detroit has received a $10 million endowment to fund its music program. Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich. received the donation from members Sarah and Harold Gottlieb. The endowment will fund the Reform synagogue’s cantorial chair, which will be named in memory of the couple’s son, Stephen, who died in 2006….
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Fast Forward 3,000 Israeli Women Rally for Peace
Three thousand women protested outside the Israeli Knesset calling for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. The protest Wednesday was held by Women Wage Peace, an Israeli organization founded after last summer’s war in Gaza that supports a peace agreement. According to the Times of Israel, the group has 7,000 members. At the protest, the women formed…
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Fast Forward Cars Torched in Suspected West Bank ‘Price Tag’ Attack
Two cars were torched and a building was vandalized in a Palestinian West Bank village near Ramallah. The graffiti on the building read “Death to Arabs” in Hebrew. Residents of the village, al-Mughayir, said Thursday that the incident was a “price tag” attack committed by Israeli settlers, according to the Times of Israel. Perpetrated by…
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Fast Forward Homeland Security Bill Includes $13M in ‘Jewish Earmarks’
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security passed by Congress Tuesday includes $13 million for security at religious and other nonprofit institutions. The Orthodox Union, Jewish Federations of North America and Agudath Israel of America applauded the passage of the funding bill, which still needs to be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The…
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Fast Forward 10 Democrats Put Brakes on Iran Bill Fast Track
Ten senators who caucus with Democrats are objecting to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to bring the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 directly to the Senate floor for a vote, thereby bypassing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The senators, among them Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), sent a letter to…
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Fast Forward Argentina President Trashes ‘Illogical’ Alberto Nisman Complaint on Terror Cover-Up
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner published an advertisement in eight major newspapers discrediting AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s allegations against the government. The advertisement published Wednesday says the complaint prepared by Nisman, who was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment Jan. 18, is “filled with contradictions, illogical, with no legal basis.” Headlined “Commitment,…
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