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Fast Forward Hundreds Protest To Denounce ‘Klinghoffer’ at Met Debut
Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, led a rally outside the Metropolitan Opera on Monday to protest the company’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” which some have called anti-Semitic and sympathetic to terrorism. The 1991 opera depicts the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish American man who was killed by four…
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Fast Forward U.N. Experts Question Israel About Palestinian’s Rights
U.N. experts questioned Israeli officials on Monday over alleged rights abuses ranging from the demolition of Palestinian houses to mistreatment of detainees and limited Palestinian access to water. Israel’s delegation defended its record before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which examined respect for civil and political rights in Israel, the Gaza Strip and the…
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Fast Forward Sidney Shapiro, China’s Jewish Translator, Dies Aged 98
Sidney Shapiro, a famed U.S.-born translator who was one of the few Westerners to gain Chinese citizenship and become a member of a high-level parliamentary body, died on the weekend in Beijing, his granddaughter said. He was 98. Shapiro was born in New York in 1915 and first came to China in 1947, having been…
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Fast Forward Ron Klain, Jewish Ex-White House Aide, Named Ebola ‘Czar’
President Barack Obama has asked former White House official Ron Klain to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the Ebola outbreak, an administration official said on Friday. Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, will report to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and national security adviser Susan Rice, the official said….
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Fast Forward Obama Appoints Ron Klain as Ebola ‘Czar’
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has asked former White House official Ron Klain to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the Ebola outbreak, an administration official said on Friday. Klain will report to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and national security adviser Susan Rice, the official said. “Klain, an attorney, comes to the job with…
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Fast Forward Israeli Survivor of Nepal Blizzard Recounts Ordeal
(Reuters) — Trekkers battling a Himalayan blizzard were left helpless after porters fainted from the cold, a survivor of one of Nepal’s worst mountain disasters said on Friday, as rescue teams resumed a hunt for 10 missing hikers and the death toll reached 29. The dead included trekkers from Canada, India, Israel and Poland, as…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Shot Dead by Israel
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian boy in a village in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, local medics and residents told Reuters. Bahaa Badr, 13, was shot in the chest as Israeli forces entered Beit Liqya near the dividing line with Israel and were pelted with stones by local youths, the sources said….
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Fast Forward Joan Rivers Died of Complications From Surgery, Autopsy Reveals
Comedian Joan Rivers, who passed away last month at the age of 81, died of a complication during a medical procedure, the New York Chief Medical Examiner’s Office said on Thursday. Rivers was having an examination of the back of the throat and vocal cords at a New York clinic when she stopped breathing and…
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