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Fast Forward Bibi Says Israel Won’t Tolerate Church Attacks
In his yearly Christmas greeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not tolerate attacks on places of Christian worship. “Israel is proud of its record of religious tolerance and pluralism, and Israel will continue to protect freedom of religion for all. And we will continue to safeguard places of Christian worship throughout our…
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Fast Forward Wily Serial Killer Raised in Anti-Semitic Church
A confessed serial killer from Alaska who hid in plain sight and whose crimes went undetected for more than a decade, was ultimately caught after he gave in to his compulsions and struck close to home. Israel Keyes, in jail since March for the kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old coffee stand server Samantha Koenig in…
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Fast Forward Adam Greenberg, Jewish Ballplayer, Signs New Deal
Jewish player Adam Greenberg will resume his professional baseball career after signing a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles. Greenberg, 31, signed a minor-league contract with the Orioles and will work to get a spot ontheir Class AAA farm team in Norfolk, Va. Chosen by the Chicago Cubs in the ninth round of the…
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Fast Forward Anti-Occupation Groups Make Case at Limmud
A group which encourages Jews to oppose the Israeli occupation has sparked a lively debate at its debut session at the 2012 Limmud Conference on Jewish life and identity. Yachad, which was founded in 2010, “aims to discuss the occupation not with the outside world, but within Jewish communities,” the group’s chairman, Daniel Reisel, told…
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Culture Of Hobbits and The Golem
Sometimes, a bearded, money-grubbing dwarf is just a bearded, money-grubbing dwarf and not an evil, anti-Semitic stand-in for Jews. Undoubtedly some will view “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” — the first in a trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book “The Hobbit,” directed by Peter Jackson — and find in Tolkien’s mythical creatures not-so-subtly…
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Fast Forward Gun Lobby Defends School Guard Plan
The leader of the U.S. gun lobby on Sunday defended his call for placing armed guards in all American schools despite withering criticism of the group’s response to the massacre of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut. “If it’s crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our schools to protect our children, then…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Dies at 124 Years Old
An Arab-Israeli woman believed to be 124 years old has died. Mariam Amash, who was listed with Israel’s population registry as being born in 1888, died on Saturday in the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, the Ynet news website reported, Her age listed in her national identity card was based on a birth certificate…
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Fast Forward Aussie Tycoon Comes to Rescue of Chabad
An Australian property tycoon has staved off a financial crisis that threatened the closure of the headquarters of Sydney’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Harry Triguboff, a longstanding benefactor of the ultra-Orthodox organization, purchased two Chabad buildings in Bondi Dec. 20 for a reported $6 million, enabling the beleaguered organization to pay off debts that threatened to cripple…
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