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Fast Forward French Arrest Couple in Toulouse Rampage ‘Plot’
French authorities reportedly have arrested a man and a woman in the Toulouse area on suspicion that they helped Mohammed Merah “commit crimes” that may have included the murder of four Jews. According to L’Express, a French daily, the two were arrested Tuesday morning. The French news service AFP named one of the suspects as…
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Fast Forward Missing Coed’s Parents Blast Friends for Silence
Missing college student Lauren Spierer’s parents have slammed their daughter’s friends for “stonewalling” about key details from the night their daughter disappeared. In a new interview with ABC’s Katie Couric, Robert and Charlene Spierer, of suburban Greenburgh, N.Y. blasted their daughter’s friends at Indiana University for supposedly maintaining a code of silence about what happened…
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Life Jews Far More Promiscuous Than Muslims
Could Jews be members of the most sexually promiscuous religion on earth? A new study, “Religion and Sexual Behaviors: Understanding the Influence of Islamic Cultures and Religious Affiliation for Explaining Sex Outside of Marriage,” written up in the journal “American Sociological Review,” seems to say so. It also found that Muslims are the most conservative…
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Fast Forward Hazon Will Merge With Isabella Freedman Center
The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and Hazon are merging. The New York-based nonprofits made the announcement Monday after discussing the merger since the beginning of the year. The new company will be called Hazon. David Weisberg, the executive director of Isabella Freedman, will be the merged organization’s new CEO and Hazon founder Nigel Savage…
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Fast Forward Hungary Premier Vows To Protect Jews From ‘List’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday condemned a call by a far-right Jobbik lawmaker to draw up lists of Jews as “unworthy” of his country, promising he would protect all citizens from any kind of discrimination. Orban was responding to comments by Marton Gyongyosi, one of Jobbik’s 44 lawmakers in the 386-seat parliament, who…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross: Cuba Pact Could Secure Freedom
Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross asked the U.S. government to sign a non-belligerency pact with Cuba in an effort to obtain his release from a military hospital there. In a meeting with a Cuba specialist from a non-profit research center in Washington, Gross asked that the United States negotiate for his release and a dialogue with…
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Fast Forward France’s Hollande: No Sanctions Over ‘lllegal’ Settlements
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday he did not want to start imposing sanctions on Israel after it announced plans to expand settlement building in occupied territories. “We don’t want to shift into sanctions mode,” Hollande said at a news conference with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. “We are more focused on convincing.” France…
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Fast Forward Extradited Jewish Teacher Heckled in Aussie Court
A Jewish school teacher accused of child sex abuse was heckled in an Australian court by a victims advocate after being extradited from the U.S. David Kramer, 52, looked stunned when alleged child sexual abuse victim Manny Waks stood up and shouted at him. “Welcome back to Australia Rabbi Kramer,” Waks called out, according to…
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