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The Schmooze Sorry Jon Stewart, Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Gael Garcia Bernal in ‘Rosewater’ “Listen, Jews do a lot of things out of guilt. Generally it has to do with visiting people, not making movies.” That was everyone’s favorite Jon Stewart (née Jonathan Stuart Leibovitz) talking to New York Magazine last month. Stewart, 51, writer, producer and award-winning host of the satirical “The Daily…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama’s Secret Letter to Iran Leader
President Barack Obama wrote to Iran’s supreme leader to tell him that cooperation in confronting Sunni Islamist extremists hinged on a successful nuclear deal. The secret letter, revealed Thursday in a Wall Street Journal report, is the fourth such correspondence between Obama and Ali Khamenei since Obama assumed office in 2009. Iran and the United…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slams Iran at United Nation — Uses Derek Jeter as Punch Line
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday tried to shift the spotlight away from Islamic State fighters and back to Iran, warning the United Nations that a nuclear-armed Tehran would pose a far greater threat than “militant Islamists on pickup trucks.” It was the fifth day of speeches at the annual gathering of the 193-nation…
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Fast Forward Argentina Jews Slam President for UN Speech
Argentina’s president turned “victims into victimizers” in her address to the United Nations General Assembly, a Jewish political umbrella leader said. Jewish leaders in Argentina on Monday responded to Cristina Fernandez’s public criticism of Argentinean Jewish leaders in her U.N speech on the first day of Rosh Hashanah for not supporting the pact with Iran…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Rouhani Blames U.S. and Allies for Rise of Extremists
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and its allies for the rise of extremists and terrorists while also reaching out to the West. “Extremism is not a regional issue that just the nations of our region would have to grapple with; extremism is a global issue,” Rouhani said Thursday in an address to…
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Israel News Why Is Government Seeking To Kill United Against Nuclear Iran Lawsuit?
When federal investigators found in 2005 that two senior staffers with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee had received classified information from a midlevel Pentagon official, they pressured the pro-Israel lobby to fire the two men. Then they prosecuted the pair, and the Pentagon official who gave them the information, under the 1917 Espionage Act….
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Fast Forward Barack Obama All But Ignores Iran ‘Threat’ in United Nations Speech
President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight violent Islamic extremism and all but ignored the subject of Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran’s nuclear pursuits were a major focus of Obama’s address last year at the U.N. General Assembly, but at this year’s General Assembly, Iran got just a couple of lines…
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Fast Forward Israel Warns Against Anti-ISIS Alliance With Iran
Saying a nuclear Iran would be a “thousand times” greater threat to the world than ISIS, Israel’s ambassador to the United States warned against including Iran in any coalition to derail the jihadist group. Ron Dermer, speaking Wednesday to guests at a pre-Rosh Hashanah reception at his residence in suburban Maryland, also cautioned the U.S….
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