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Fast Forward Boston Bombing Suspect Identified From Video — No Arrest
Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video, a U.S. law enforcement source said on Wednesday, but no arrest had yet been made. Police may make an appeal to the public for more information at a news conference scheduled for later on Wednesday, a U.S. government source said….
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The Schmooze Jodie Sweetin Secretly Married…Last Year
Talk about keeping a wedding on the down low. People Magazine reported that Jodie Sweetin, a.k.a. Stephanie Tanner on “Full House,” secretly married fiancee Morty Coyle in an intimate ceremony in Beverly Hills on March 15, 2012 — last year. The couple’s one year anniversary present to themselves was to share their union with the…
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Fast Forward Texas Judge’s Wife Admits ‘Jewish County’ Slayings
The wife of a former Texas justice of the peace confessed to her involvement with the fatal shootings of a district attorney, his wife and another prosecutor and fingered her husband as the triggerman, an arrest warrant released on Wednesday showed. The two slain prosecutors helped convict her husband of stealing computer monitors from public…
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Fast Forward Egyptian Jews Elect Magda Haroun as New Leader
Egypt’s Jewish community has elected a new leader, Magda Haroun. The announcement on Tuesday follows the death of former Jewish community head Carmen Weinstein on April 13, after leading the community for more than 20 years. “My goal is to preserve the cultural heritage of the Egyptian Jews so that when we are gone, it…
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Fast Forward Egalitarian Kotel Prayer Plan Just Start of Religious Pluralism Debate in Israel
Natan Sharansky’s proposal last week to expand the space for non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall could be historic. But for most Israelis, changes at the Western Wall are of only trivial interest. Far more pressing are state restrictions on marriage and conversion, Sabbath bans on public transit, and haredi Orthodox exemptions from Israel’s mandatory…
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News Harley Pasternak, Jewish Fitness Trainer to the Stars
Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, Katy Perry, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried all share the same Jewish man. And they’re on the record about their ardor for him. Harley Pasternak, 38, has managed to corner the market on personal fitness for A-listers — and even become a kind of celebrity himself. With private studios in New…
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News Tunisian Jews Seek Place in New Democracy — as Tunisians
Mamie Lily, a restaurant housed in a charming, French colonial-era building in La Goulette, a faded port town just outside Tunis, is a rare outpost of kosher cuisine in an Arab land. And the annual Seder it hosts seems to reflect something characteristic of Tunisia’s larger Jewish population: It is tiny, but functional and robust…
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Fast Forward Oscars Producers Will Return in 2014 Despite Seth MacFarlane Debacle
Oscar organizers are bringing back Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to produced the Academy Awards telecast for a second year, despite a mauling by media critics for their first effort in February. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the most coveted awards in the movie industry, said on Tuesday that…
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