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Fast Forward 4 Jewish Things to Watch in State of the Union
It will be President Obama’s first State of the Union address in his second term and White House leakers are already promising an aggressive speech, designed to push Republicans ahead of the upcoming battle over budget sequestration cuts. It will also be a chance for Obama to outline a vision for his second term and…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Smooths Path for Obama Israel Trip
A U.S. official sought to reassure Israel this week on President Barack Obama’s determination to curb Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, as the clock ticks on a threatened Israeli pre-emptive strike. The visit by Rose Gottemoeller, acting U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, was seen by her Israeli hosts as part of…
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Fast Forward Gun Victims Will Attend State of Union Speech
President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in Congress are bringing victims of gun violence to his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, providing faces and voices to the carnage that he wants to curb with new firearms restrictions. About two dozen victims, including a girl from Newtown, Connecticut – site of the Dec. 14…
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Fast Forward Israel Approves 90 More Jewish Settler Homes, Thumbing Nose at Barack Obama
Israel gave final approval on Monday for 90 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, driving another wedge into a rift with Washington ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. The dwellings will be built in Beit El, a major Jewish settlement north of Jerusalem, and will house educational staff, the Defence…
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Fast Forward Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Praises Pope Benedict for Outreach to Jews
Israeli chief rabbi Yona Metzger on Monday praised Pope Benedict’s inter-religious outreach and said relations between Israel and the Vatican had never been better. “During his period (as pope) there were the best relations ever between the church and the chief rabbinate and we hope that this trend will continue,” a spokesman quoted Metzger as…
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Israel News Israel Has Fewer Guns, Fewer Deaths Than U.S.
Nine days after the Newtown, Conn. massacre in which 20 children died, Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, broke his group’s long silence with a bristling attack against gun regulation that included a theme heard frequently among gun rights advocates. “Israel had a whole lot of school shootings until they did one…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Use Facebook To Track Leaders of Social Justice Protest
Israel Police have been carefully following the Facebook accounts of the social protest movement and its leaders, apparently as part of a hunt for evidence of criminal wrongdoing, it emerged from evidence police prosecutors have submitted to the court in support of indictments against protest leader Daphni Leef and others. In addition to video footage…
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Opinion Two Ways To Die
The stories of Ariel Sharon and Happy Fernandez are a study in contrasts. Sharon, as we all know, is being kept alive in an Israeli hospital seven years after suffering a massive stroke. He was prime minister at the time, had just dramatically pulled Israel out of Gaza and founded a new centrist political party,…
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