Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Rabbi Alvin Kass, longest-serving NYPD chaplain famed for 9/11 response, dies at 89
Kass once disarmed a hostage-taker with pastrami sandwiches from the Carnegie Deli
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Fast Forward Vance downplays ‘little skirmishes’ as Israel bombs in Gaza and Hamas fails to return hostages
Both Israel and Hamas have accused the other of violating the two-week-old ceasefire
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Fast Forward Trump sets deadline for Hamas to release hostages’ bodies as Egyptian team enters Gaza to help
Two American-Israelis are among the 13 deceased hostages still in Gaza
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Fast Forward JD Vance condemns Knesset vote on West Bank annexation as ‘very stupid’ as Trump says it ‘won’t happen’
Trump, meanwhile, said Israel would 'lose all support' from the United States if it goes forward with annexation
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Fast Forward Trump: ‘If Hamas continues to kill people … we will have no choice but to go in and kill them’
The U.S. president later clarified that he did not mean the United States would strike in Gaza
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Fast Forward Rabbi Moshe Hauer, OU leader admired across Jewish world, is dead at 60
A pulpit rabbi turned national leader who earned praise from Jewish leaders across the ideological spectrum
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Fast Forward 2 more deceased hostages, including only woman, returned to Israel as Hamas says it has freed all it can
Nineteen hostages remain unaccounted for
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