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Fast Forward Rabinnic and Legal Groups Partner to Prevent Agunot
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Religious Zionist rabbinic organization in Israel has launched a new prenuptial agreement to help ensure that divorcing wives will receive a religious divorce, or get. Tzohar, along with the Israel Bar Association, introduced the agreement on Sunday that encourages a husband not to withhold a religious divorce, without which a woman…
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Fast Forward First 21 Sephardic Jews Move Towards Portugal Citizenship
The government of Portugal published its procedure for handling applications for citizenship based on the country’s law of return for descendants of Sephardic Jews. The new procedure, effective as of Sunday, is based on legislation passed in 2013 entitling the descendants of Sephardic Jews to the Portuguese nationality deprived of them due to religious and…
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News Jewish St. Louis Grows by 14%
The Jewish population of St. Louis rose by 14 percent to 61,000 in the last 20 years, a new study has found. The results of the 2014 St. Louis Jewish Community Study, the first study of Jewish St Louis in 20 years, were released last month. The study also found that there are an estimated…
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Fast Forward Susan Rice Gets Warm Reception at AIPAC
A nuclear deal with Iran must include access to its nuclear facilities even after the expiry of restrictions, which would last at least ten years, Susan Rice, the U.S. national security adviser, told AIPAC. Rice, addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday, the second day of its annual conference, said expectations that Iran…
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Fast Forward Al Franken to Boycott Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to Congress
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) became the sixth Jewish lawmaker to say he will not attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress and that has been maintaining a count of lawmakers who say they will skip the speech Tuesday, on Monday added Franken to its…
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Fast Forward Rep. Brad Sherman Quits Boteach Iran Confab
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Brad Sherman withdrew from a forum for skeptics of President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear strategy, saying an ad for the event was “vulgar.” “I cannot appear at a forum which was advertised using an unwarranted incendiary personal attack,” Sherman (D-Calif.) said Monday in a statement titled “Congressman Sherman Condemns Vulgar New…
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Fast Forward Argentina President Says Nisman’s Letters Contradict His Allegations
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina said documents found in the safe of the late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman contradicted his own allegations that she had covered up Iran’s role in the 1984 Jewish center attack. Kirchner in a nearly four-hour televised address Sunday at the opening of a…
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Fast Forward More Americans Still View Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Favorably,’ Polls Show
Despite controversy over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, more Americans view him favorably than unfavorably, according to two separate polls. Nearly twice as many Americans viewed Netanyahu favorably, 45 percent, as unfavorably, 24 percent, according to a Gallup poll taken Feb. 8-11 — after Netanyahu had accepted the invitation from House Speaker…
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