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Fast Forward Polish Holocaust Film ‘Ida’ Makes Oscars Shortlist
The Israeli entry is out, but a Polish Holocaust-related film is still in the running, as movies from nine countries were shortlisted Friday in the Oscars race for best foreign-language film. “Gett: The Trial of Vivian Amsalem,” Israel’s entry, did not make the cut. The film depicts the five-year legal struggle of an Orthodox wife…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing Extremists Flock to Milan for Meeting of New Pan-European Party
For the second time in less than a month, right-wing extremists from around Europe met in Milan. About 300 people, among them representatives of European far-right parties and movements including Greece’s Golden Dawn and the British National Party, met at a Milan hotel on Saturday, according to local media. The gathering was organized by the…
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Fast Forward Obama Signs Law Strengthening U.S.-Israel Alliance
President Obama signed a law that strengthens the U.S.-Israel alliance. The 2014 United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act, which unanimously passed the House of Representatives earlier this month and unanimously passed in the Senate in September, declares Israel a “major strategic partner” of the United States, thus expanding authority for U.S. weapons stockpiles in Israel and…
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Fast Forward Harvard President Plans Probe of SodaStream Ban
Harvard University’s president has requested an investigation into the decision by the university’s dining service to stop buying SodaStream equipment. Drew Faust asked for an investigation into the decision, Provost Alan Garber told The Harvard Crimson student newspaper on Wednesday night. The request came following an article written earlier in the day by the newspaper…
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News Tampa Jewish Agency Chief Slain in Murder-Suicide
A Jewish agency head who had been deeply involved with caring for migrant children was found dead with her longtime partner in what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide. Rochelle Tatrai, the president and CEO of Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services, and partner Sean Ray were both found dead of gunshot wounds on…
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Fast Forward Far Right French Mayor Lights City Hall Menorah
A French mayor with ties to the far-right National Front party lit a menorah in city hall despite protests that doing so violated the separation of church and state. Robert Menard of Beziers, who was elected mayor earlier this year, lit the menorah Tuesday, the first night of Hanukkah, at the seat of his municipality,…
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Fast Forward Tunisia Jewish Leader Backs Secular Candidate in Presidential Race
In advance of the second round of Tunisia’s presidential elections, the head of the country’s Jewish community endorsed the campaign of secularist hopeful Beji Caid Essebsi. Joseph Roger Bismuth, president of the Jewish Community of Tunisia, or CJT, gave Essebsi his support in an interview published Thursday by the news site AfricanManager.com ahead of the…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Signs ‘No Social Security for Nazis’ Act
President Obama signed into law a bill that ends Social Security payments to former Nazis. The “No Social Security for Nazis Act” Obama signed Thursday was passed unanimously by both chambers in Congress earlier this month. The measure closes a loophole that had allowed ex-Nazis who lied about their past when immigrating to the United…
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