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Fast Forward Israel School Red-Faced After Teachers’ Unvarnished Opinions of Students Go Public
Students at an Israeli high school were in an uproar on Monday after a teacher mistakenly sent them an internal email that spelled out what faculty members really thought about them. “Not too bright”, “Liar”, “Tactless”, “Big Baby”, “Anti-social”, “Has a thing for boys” and “Sick-o” were some of the descriptions on an Excel spreadsheet…
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Fast Forward Henrique Capriles Spars With Chavez Successor Even as Spar as Strongman Lies in State
Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela’s election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners still file past the late Hugo Chavez’s corpse. Maduro, who was sworn in as acting president after Chavez succumbed to cancer last week, is seen as the favorite to win the April 14 election, bolstered by…
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Fast Forward Henrique Capriles, Leader With Jewish Roots, Vows ‘Fight’ for Venezuela
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Sunday he will challenge the late Hugo Chavez’s preferred successor for the presidency next month, setting the stage for a bitter campaign. Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, will face election favorite and acting President Nicolas Maduro. The pair have until Monday to register their candidacies for the April…
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Fast Forward Famed Vienna Orchestra Finally Admits Nazi Past
The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi war criminal two decades after the end of World War Two. The orchestra, which has come under fire for covering up its history,…
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Fast Forward Christine Quinn Tosses Hat in Race for New York Mayor With No Jewish Candidate
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn officially launched her candidacy on Sunday for the job that would make her the city’s first female and first openly gay mayor, in a race that has no Jewish major candidate for the first time in years. The Democratic Quinn, 46, made her announcement on Twitter, saying: “It’s…
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Fast Forward J Street, Liberal Pro-Israel Group, Claims Big Win on Chuck Hagel
J Street, a liberal Jewish-American lobbying group barely five years old and once shunned by top Israeli officials, is claiming as a victory the fact that Chuck Hagel was confirmed as defense secretary despite opposition from more conservative Jewish groups. In the week when the most influential Jewish-American group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,…
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Fast Forward Venezuelan With Jewish Roots Plans Run Against Hugo Chavez’s Successor
Venezuela has fired the starting gun in a highly charged election race likely to pit Hugo Chavez’s preferred successor, acting President Nicolas Maduro, against centrist opposition leader Henrique Capriles. The pair have until Monday to register their candidacy for the April 14 vote, which will determine whether Chavez’s self-styled nationalist-socialist revolution will live on in…
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Fast Forward Austrian Jews Wary of Rising Anti-Semitism
Marina Plistiev, a Kyrgyzstan-born Jew, has lived in Vienna for 34 years but still doesn’t like to take public transport. She recalls the day in 1986 as a teenager when she and her four-year-old brother, whom she’d collected from school with a fever, were told to get off a tram for having the wrong tickets,…
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