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Fast Forward Hopes for Gaza Truce Dashed as Rockets Fly
Egypt opened a tiny window to emergency peace diplomacy in Gaza on Friday, but hopes for even a brief ceasefire while its prime minister was inside the bombarded enclave to talk to leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement were immediately dashed. A rocket fired from Gaza landed in the sea near Tel Aviv after alarms…
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News Anti-Semitic Scrawl Left on Beverly Hills Package
Beverly Hills police asked the public’s help in identifying people who placed a package covered in anti-Semitic text in front of a Chanel store. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that police are searching for seven people believed connected to a package found in front of the Chanel store on Rodeo Drive that was at…
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Fast Forward Jewel Box Hidden From Nazis Returned to Son
The mayor of Amersfoort in the Netherlands returned a box of jewels to a Jewish man 70 years after his parents hid the box in their pharmacy. According to De Telegraaf, a Dutch daily, the parents of 73-year-old Bert Manasse hid the box in the cellar of the building and fled to Soest, a nearby…
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Fast Forward Rocket Misses Tel Aviv, Lands in Sea
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv on Friday landed in the sea, a police spokesman said. “The rocket landed off the shores of Tel Aviv,” the spokesman said after air raid sirens sounded in Israel’s commercial centre and an explosion was heard.
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News A Touchy Subject
I’ll always remember it because it was the first,” said Chana Lavaddin, 21, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. In the way that some convey the minute details of their first sexual encounters, Lavaddin recalled the chapped skin and firm grip of the first man who shook her hand, a former professor congratulating her…
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Opinion Sticking It to Hamas, on Twitter
There’s nothing funny about war. So it’s unsurprising that a trending Twitter hashtag #HamasBumperStickers is being met with equal parts horror and glee. “What’s the martyr with you?”, “I don’t break for Jews,” and “My other car is also a mass of blackened, twisted metal” are just a few of the Tweets cascading out today…
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Warns of Harsh Retaliation
Israel Defence Minister Ehud Barak, signaling stronger Israeli military action against Palestinian militants, said on Thursday they would be made to pay a price for firing rockets toward Tel Aviv. “This escalation will exact a price that the other side will have to pay,” Barak said in broadcast remarks after rockets were fired toward Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Confessed Etan Patz Killer Plans To Fight Charges
The man who confessed to the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz made a brief courtroom appearance on Thursday, standing silently in a gray T-shirt as a prosecutor told the judge that murder charges had been formally filed nearly three decades after the slaying. Pedro Hernandez, 51, did not enter a plea during the hearing…
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