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Fast Forward Argentina Government Dumps Iran Bombing Probe Deal at Last
Argentina’s new government will not appeal a court’s decision to strike down a deal with Iran over investigating a deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, a government source said on Friday, putting the long-running controversy to rest. President Mauricio Macri took office on Thursday. Former leader Cristina Fernandez had said she…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Says a Vote for Hillary Clinton is a Vote for Nuclear Iran
Washington — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for a nuclear-armed Iran. “We need to nominate a candidate who has the clarity to stand up and say: If you vote for Hillary Clinton, you are voting for the Ayatollah Khamenei to have nuclear weapons,” the GOP presidential candidate…
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Fast Forward Argentina President Vows To Scrap Iran Deal for Jewish Center Bomb Probe
The newly elected president of Argentina said he will cancel the agreement signed with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as he vowed during the campaign. “We will propose to the Congress to cancel the pact with Iran as we promised in the campaign,” Mauricio Macri…
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Opinion Getting Past Iran Feud Is Least of Federations’ Problems
It was hard to escape the feeling that things were a little backward when the Jewish Federations of North America, the national network of local Jewish federated charities, convened in Washington on November 8 for its annual General Assembly. The organization was emerging from a painful, months-long crisis after being caught in the crossfire of…
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Forward 50 2015 Alisa Doctoroff
In a year when Israel politics reached new levels of acrimony, the largest Jewish federation’s top lay leader felt the heat, but kept her cool. Alisa Robbins Doctoroff, 57, president of UJA-Federation of New York, found her name in bold letters in an ad campaign threatened by right-wing activists. Her crime? Supporting the New Israel…
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Forward 50 2015 Jerrold Nadler
The anonymous advertisements started soon after U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler announced he would support the Iran nuclear agreement in September. “How Do You Spell Betrayal? N-A-D-L-E-R,” read one, which ran in a Brooklyn Orthodox paper. An angry New York State Assembly member sent a bus to Nadler’s office with a picture of the Iranian supreme…
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Forward 50 2015 Wendy Sherman
Israel and the American Jewish establishment fought furiously against the nuclear deal that Wendy Sherman forged with Iran as America’s key negotiator. But Sherman, ironically, credits the Jewish values she learned from her parents for her determination to push through during two years of grueling multilateral talks. They are, she says, the same values that…
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Fast Forward Israel Defense Minister Says Iran Dispute With U.S. Is Over
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon acknowledged that disputes between Israel and the U.S. over the Iran nuclear deal are over. “The Iran deal is a given,” Yaalon said at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday with his U.S. counterpart, Ash Carter. “Our disputes are over. And now we have to look to the future.”…
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