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News Scandal Won’t Mean The End for Rabbi Pinto — Or His Wife
The night I first met Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, I hardly noticed his wife. She opened the door when I arrived at their Manhattan townhouse, dressed all in black with her head covered. If she said anything at all, I didn’t think it important enough to write down. I was there to see her husband,…
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Opinion Balding Jew Grabs Lead for L.A. Seat
The Berman-Sherman congressional race in California’s 30th district has been nothing but pure drama. With millions of dollars pouring into the race, attack ads, and with the two Jewish Democrats, Howard Berman and Brad Sherman’s latest debate making headlines thanks to an unprecedented physical altercation, the entire nation is tuning in to see who will…
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Fast Forward Calls To Free Anti-Islam Film Poster
An Egyptian Coptic Christian arrested on suspicion of posting online an anti-Islam film that ignited Muslim protests around the world should be freed immediately, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Computer science graduate Alber Saber was detained by police in Cairo last month after his neighbours accused him of uploading sections of the film “Innocence of…
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Fast Forward Wounded Pakistani Girl Praised for Education Stand
The Pakistani teenage girl who was shot in the head for speaking out against the Taliban was honored at an Anti-Defamation League concert. ADL National Director Abraham Foxman dedicated Monday night’s 18th annual Concert Against Hate at the Kennedy Center in Washington to Malala Yousafzai, who spoke out for education for females. Foxman led an…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Want Anti-Islam Ad Profits for Charity
Some national Jewish organizations joined a coalition of religious groups calling on the Washington Metro system to donate profits from an anti-Islam ad to charity. “The placing of offensive, anti-Muslim ads in the D.C. Metro system is an important opportunity to affirm our commitment both to free speech and to a society that deplores hate…
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Fast Forward Even LeBron James Is State Secret at Gitmo
U.S. security restrictions governing the statements of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 plot are so stringent that one defendant’s assessment of basketball star LeBron James was treated as a top national secret for two months, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, who is accused of helping the Sept. 11…
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Fast Forward David Cameron Says Not Time to Strike Iran
British Prime Minister David Cameron told members of London’s Jewish community that Israel should give sanctions more time to work. “I have said to Prime Minister Netanyahu that now is not the time for Israel to resort to military action,” Cameron said Monday night at the United Jewish Israel Appeal annual fundraising dinner in London….
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News Arlen Specter Wore Independence on Sleeve
During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter never lost his acerbic prosecutorial zeal, friends and associates say. The insistent questions, the commitment to independence that made the longtime Pennsylvania senator a critical player in recent U.S. history, ultimately did in his career. In his 2010 bid for a…
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