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Fast Forward Feds Crack Notorious 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport Spurred by Jewish Bookie
Five people said to be part of a New York crime family were arrested on Thursday, including a 78-year-old man accused of participating in a notorious 1978 airport heist that inspired the movie “Goodfellas.” More than three decades after $5 million in cash and $1 million in jewelry was stolen from a Lufthansa airlines cargo…
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Fast Forward Pentagon Gives Troops Leeway To Wear Kippahs
The Pentagon took steps on Wednesday to give individual troops greater latitude to wear turbans, head scarfs, yarmulkes and other religious clothing with their uniforms, but advocacy groups said the new policy fell short of what they were seeking. “The military departments will accommodate individual expressions of sincerely held beliefs (conscience, moral principles, or religious…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Mull Boycott of Holocaust Events
Hungarian Jewish leaders said on Tuesday they may stay away from commemorations of the Holocaust in 2014 because of resurgent anti-Semitism in a nation that has struggled to come to terms with a wartime role in deporting Jews. The Hungarian government is planning to mark the 70th anniversary of June 1944, when 437,000 Jews were…
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Fast Forward David Blech, Jewish ‘King of Biotech’ Stocks, Fails To Get Sentence Tossed
David Blech, once dubbed the “King of Biotech”, failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to throw out his four-year prison term for securities fraud on the ground that his sentencing judge was biased. Blech, 58, had argued in court papers that U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon improperly considered his race and social status in…
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Fast Forward Soccer Star Nicolas Anelka Faces Minimum 5-Game Ban for ‘Shocking’ Quenelle Salute
The English Football Association charged Nicolas Anelka on Tuesday for making a “quenelle” salute after scoring for West Bromwich Albion against West Ham United in the Premier League last month. The gesture is widely regarded as being anti-Semitic and the FA charged the former France international under Rule E3 for ‘making an abusive and/or indecent…
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Fast Forward Israel Prepares To Return Palestinian Remains To Families
Israel has begun to exhume the remains of a number of Palestinian militants to return them to their families for burial, the army said on Sunday, a move that could help ease some tension between the adversaries. Israel and the Western-backed Palestinian authority are currently locked in peace talks being mediated by the United States…
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Fast Forward Zach Braff Returns To Sundance With Jewish Parenting Film ‘Wish I Was Here’
After exploring the quarter-life crises of young adults in the critical and commercial hit “Garden State” a decade ago, actor-director Zach Braff turned his eye to examine the existential dilemmas faced by parents in his new film “Wish I Was Here.” Braff plays 35-year-old Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor and married father of two, who…
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Fast Forward Israel To Stop Distributing Gas Masks Ending Decades of Safety Policy
Israel decided on Sunday to end a decades-old policy of issuing gas masks to the public in an apparent sign of confidence in Syria’s chemical weapons disarmament. Since being hit by Iraqi Scud missiles during the 1991 Gulf War, authorities have handed out masks, though Syria’s chemical arsenal was Israel’s primary concern in recent years….
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