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Fast Forward Alan Gross, Jailed Jewish Contractor, Gets New Hope as Lawmakers Arrive in Cuba
A seven-member delegation of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Cuba on Monday in the latest effort to move forward political relations that have been at a standstill since U.S. government contractor Alan Gross was imprisoned there in 2009. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who saw Gross and met with Cuban President Raul Castro and other high-ranking officials…
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Fast Forward Argentina’s Jewish Foreign Minister Defends Iran Terror Probe Deal
Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timerman, defended himself against accusations that he betrayed his Judaism by signing an agreement with Iran. “I did not betray my Judaism in the pact with Iran because we are trying to solve the AMIA bombing case,” Timerman said Monday during an interview with La Red radio. “The move was inspired…
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Fast Forward U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice Tells Jewish Teens To Be ‘Impatient’ for Change
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice charged teens at BBYO’s International Convention to “get impatient with the way things are so you can dream of the ways things can be.” Rice, the U.S. envoy to the world body, addressed some 1,700 Jewish teens, staff and community leaders on Feb. 15. The teens dispersed to 34 service sites…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Thanks Pope Benedict for Improving Ties With Jews and Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked outgoing Pope Benedict on Monday for his efforts to shore up often troubled relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Jews, including with his 2009 visit to the Holy Land. That trip, in which the German-born Benedict paid respects at Israel’s main Holocaust memorial, was seen by many Jews…
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Fast Forward Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Blasts Holocaust Remembrance as ‘Unacceptable’
The Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party has questioned the country marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, calling it “unacceptable.” In a question posed in the Greek Parliament last week, Golden Dawn lawmaker Ioannis Lagos asked the Education and Interior ministers why state institutions and schools where commemorating Jan. 27th. “We have received complaints that on this…
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Opinion How Many American Jews Are There?
Anyone wishing to understand the shifting realities of American Jewish life has reason to celebrate this month. After a four-year hiatus, the American Jewish Year Book is back in print. This is no small thing. Begun in 1899, the annual volume was for 108 years the essential source of facts and figures on Jewish community…
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Fast Forward Ed Koch’s Lost Diary Recalls Face Down With Jew-Haters in Army
Ed Koch documented his struggles with racist, Jew-hating soldiers as a young GI in a long-lost diary that came to light after his death earlier this month. The late ex-mayor of New York wrote of his struggles with bigotry during his Army boot camp in a diary that his sister found while cleaning out his…
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Opinion Don’t Let Budget Cuts Hurt Disabled
In the coming weeks and months, Congress will enact sweeping reductions in federal spending, finalize the 2013 federal budget and raise the debt ceiling. The cuts that will come with these decisions are not merely numbers on a ledger; they will decimate programs that directly impact the lives of the most vulnerable among us and…
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