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Life The Real Glitch in Obamacare
The media is in an absolute tizzy over the website glitches in Obamacare. In fact, I keep getting breaking news emails with updates on the State of the Glitches (this isn’t an exaggeration). I admit: the Obama administration clearly messed up, big time, in their tech firm oversight. And it’s an undeniable concern that all…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Push by Jews Sparks Fears of Wider Conflict Among Israelis
Tensions between Jews and Muslims around Jerusalem’s Temple Mount are surging. Since the January general election, right-wing and religious groups have stepped up their efforts to change the status quo between Jews and Muslims at this ultra-sensitive site − a development due in no small measure to the growing clout of Habayit Hayehudi in the…
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Fast Forward French Jews Fear ‘Nightmare’ Win by National Front Leader Marine Le Pen in 2017
The head of France’s Jewish community said he feared that the country’s far-right National Front party may win the next presidential elections. “It is 8 P.M. on May 14, 2017. The face of [National Front leader] Marine Le Pen appears on the television screens of millions of Frenchmen on the second round of the presidential…
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Fast Forward Montreal’s Le Mood Scraps Panel With Critics of Israel
A Montreal Jewish learning festival has canceled two sessions that would have been led by a pro-Palestinian activist who calls for Birthright Israel’s abolition. Le Mood, a Limmud conference to be held this Sunday and funded by the local Jewish federation, pulled the panel titled “Where are all the radical Jews?” and another on the…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Jew Who Converted to Islam Admits Making Anti-Chabad Threats
A Jewish convert to Islam pleaded guilty to inciting violence, including a call to leave Chabad headquarters in New York “a message from Islam.” “Yousef Mohamid Al-Khattab (a.k.a. Joseph Cohen), 45, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, pleaded guilty yesterday to using his position as a leader of the ‘Revolution Muslim’ websites to use the Internet…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Quartet’ of Leaders Gives Barack Obama 60 Days for Iran Nuclear Thaw
Leaders of four major Jewish organizations have indicated to the Obama Administration that they will have a 60-day moratorium during which they will refrain from conducting any public campaign urging Congress to strengthen U.S. sanctions against Iran. The understanding was reached during a sometimes tense meeting at the White House this week between a group…
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News Brooklyn District Attorney Candidate Ken Thompson Backpedals on Hasidic Abuse Scandal
On the campaign trail, Ken Thompson, the Democratic candidate for Brooklyn district attorney, has sharply criticized incumbent Charles Hynes’ prosecution of a prominent Hasidic advocate against sexual abuse, even attending a rally calling for charges against the man to be dropped. But Thompson, who is widely expected to win the November 5 election, is now…
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News Samuel Cohen-Eckstein’s Family Pleads With Council for Action on Traffic Laws
Tears were shed by all present as the family of a Jewish boy killed by a vehicle in Brooklyn testified in front of the City Council’s transportation committee in favor of a bill reducing speed limits in residential areas, WNYC reported. Sammy Cohen-Eckstein, whose death came a month before his bar mitzvah, was crossing the…
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