Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Kosovo Police Stop ISIS Attack on Israeli Soccer Team
— Kosovo police said they prevented coordinated attacks by the Islamic State, including on the Israeli national soccer team. The police announced thwarted attacks in the Balkan nation as well as in neighboring Albania on the Israelis, The Associated Press reported. According to a statement, police said they uncovered plans by the Islamic State, or…
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Fast Forward Reports: Netanyahu Doesn’t Want to Meet Trump Before Inauguration
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly declined an invitation to meet with President-elect Donald Trump before his inauguration. During the phone conversation between the two leaders following the elections last week, Trump suggested that Netanyahu “come as soon as possible” to meet with him, the Hebrew-language Walla news website reported Thursday, citing two…
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Fast Forward Sanders Demands Trump Withdraw Bannon Appointment
— Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called on President-elect Donald Trump to withdraw his appointment of Stephen Bannon to a major White House advisory post. Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, in a statement issued Wednesday decried Bannon’s appointment earlier this week as chief strategist, calling him a “racist individual.” In urging Trump to cut Bannon loose,…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor’s Funds Study for Israelis in U.S — If They Return
JERUSALEM — Alumni of a Holocaust survivor’s scholarship that pays for Israeli students to pursue a doctorate at a U.S. institution – on condition that they return to Israel after their studies, are gathering in Jerusalem to remember their benefactor. Edward David Fischman died in 1995 with no direct descendants, after losing his only daughter…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Lieberman Wants Deal With Trump To Expand Big West Bank Settlements
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister said his country should reach an agreement with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump to freeze building in isolated West Bank settlements in exchange for continued building in settlement blocs. Avigdor Liberman made the remarks on Wednesday at a briefing with reporters, the first since his Yisrael Beiteinu party…
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Fast Forward New York Senator Ties Swastika Vandalism to Steve Bannon Appointment
— New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman, who is Jewish and gay, discovered two swastikas carved into his Manhattan apartment building and connected the vandalism with the appointment of former Breitbart News chair Stephen Bannon to a White House post. “Swastika found in my apartment building this evening in Greenwich Village. Anti-Semite named to #Trump White House…
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Fast Forward Barbara Boxer Introduces Bill To Dump Electoral College
— Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, has introduced legislation to eliminate the Electoral College. Under the legislation introduced Wednesday, the winner of presidential elections would be determined by the outcome of the popular vote. The measure would amend the U.S. Constitution. Boxer did not seek re-election in 2016 and will retire at the end…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan Will Skip Nobel Prize Ceremony
— American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will not go to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature in person. The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, said in a statement issued Wednesday that it had received a personal letter from Dylan “in which he explained that due to pre-existing commitments, he is unable to travel…
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