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Fast Forward Eric Cantor Seeks To Block Fiscal Cliff Deal
Washington’s last-minute scramble to step back from a “fiscal cliff” ran into trouble on Tuesday as Republicans in the House of Representatives balked at a deal to avert a budget crisis. Republican leaders in the House said they might try to change the bill approved by the Senate which voted to raise taxes on the…
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The Schmooze Steven Spielberg Scores Directors Guild Nod
Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper and Ang Lee received nominations from the Directors Guild of America (DGA) on Tuesday, ahead of the Oscar nominations this week. Affleck, 40, landed his first Directors Guild film award nomination for Iran hostage thriller “Argo,” alongside Oscar-winning U.S. directors Bigelow and Spielberg, Taiwanese director Lee…
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Fast Forward Celebrating Slavery’s End, 150 Years Later
Congregants at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church cried out in testimony, prayer and song at a New Year’s Eve service recalling the vigils held by blacks 150 years ago as they awaited President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The document that helped end slavery in the United States resonated deeply in Charleston, where…
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Opinion Too Sexy for Limmud?
Limmud is supposed to be a big tent. But it apparently isn’t expansive enough to accommodate one author’s broad backside. The rear end in question belongs to provocative author and spoken word artist Vanessa Hidary on the cover of her memoir, “The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.” A drawing of Hidary, known at The…
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Fast Forward Pope Calls for ‘Year of Peace’ in 2013
Pope Benedict said in his New Year’s message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality. The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year with a mass for about 10,000 people in St Peter’s Basilica on the day the…
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News 5 Reasons Feminists Are Happy It’s 2013
It was only a couple of years ago that some people, especially women of a certain age, were surprised, even shocked, when I told them what I did for a living. “Feminist blogger?!? People still care about that stuff?” The best-case scenario: They treated my work as a curiosity. The worst? They didn’t see it…
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Israel News Laying Groundwork for Life After Syria’s Assad
As the days of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad increasingly look numbered, Jewish and pro-Israel activists are starting to grapple with the question of who will be in power after he’s gone — and whether they should reach out to them and how. At this stage, sporadic contacts between Jewish activists and Syrian opposition figures are…
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Fast Forward Anti-African Riots Erupt Over Tel Aviv Rape
Dozens of rightist activists and residents of south Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood gathered on Monday to protest against African migrants, after it was reported that an Eritrean man raped an elderly woman last week. The protesters were marching toward the area of Tel Aviv’s central bus station, where an 83-year-old woman was raped in the…
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