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Fast Forward Catholics Should Not Try To Convert Jews, Vatican Says
Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday in a major document drawing the Church further away from the strained relations of the past. It was the latest move on a host of issues, such as gay rights and re-marriage, that the Vatican…
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Fast Forward Egypt Frees Israeli-Arab Held For Spying in Prisoner Swap
Egypt has freed an Israeli-Arab held in its jails for 15 years on espionage charges in exchange for the release of two Egyptians held in Israel, Egyptian and Israeli officials said on Thursday. Uda Tarrabin, originally from a tribe in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, on the border with Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, had been…
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Fast Forward Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Says Muslims Welcome
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said he supported Muslims in his community and around the world. Muslims in the United States and abroad have been criticized in the wake of attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. “As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on…
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Fast Forward Obama Says Important To Push for Peace in Meeting With Israeli President Reuven Rivlin
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday it was important to try to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians even though the possibility seemed distant. Obama made his comments during a meeting in the Oval Office with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Faces Arab Boycott Over Anti-Muslim Stand
Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim comments cost him business in the Middle East on Wednesday, with a major chain of department stores halting sales of his glitzy “Trump Home” line of lamps, mirrors and jewelry boxes. The real estate mogul and reality TV star now makes most of his money from licensing his name on…
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News Donald Trump Faces Arab Boycott Over Anti-Muslim Stand
presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim comments cost him business in the Middle East on Wednesday, with a major chain of department stores halting sales of his glitzy “Trump Home” line of lamps, mirrors and jewelry boxes. The real estate mogul and reality TV star now makes most of his money from licensing his name on…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Helped Son-in-Law Marc Mezvinsky With Hedge Fund Meeting
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton forwarded a request made by her son-in-law for a meeting between one of his hedge fund’s clients and State Department officials when she was the country’s top diplomat, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Marc Mezvinsky, the husband of Chelsea Clinton and a partner at the hedge fund Eaglevale Partners LP,…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Suspect Breaks Silence About German Murder Spree
The lone surviving suspect in a neo-Nazi murder case that shocked Germany denied on Wednesday playing any role in a seven-year racist killing spree by two close friends but admitted feeling moral guilt for the deaths. Breaking her two-and-a-half-year silence in a closely-watched trial in Munich, Beate Zschaepe said in a statement read out by…
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