Amanda Mikelberg
By Amanda Mikelberg
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Fast Forward Chabad Opens Nairobi Center — First in East Africa
— Chabad is opening its first outreach center in East Africa. The Chabad-Lubavitch of Kenya will open in Nairobi as of the High Holidays this year, the Hasidic outreach movement announced this week. It will be staffed by the husband-and-wife team of Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super. The couple were dispatched to the Kenyan capital during Passover to…
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Fast Forward Presidents Conference Wants Apology for Boris Johnson Comparison to Ron Dermer
— The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is seeking an apology from the White House for having compared Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, with the new British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. At a press briefing Thursday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest referenced Dermer while discussing British Prime Minister Theresa May’s…
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Fast Forward UCLA Chides Student Leader Who Barred Funding for BDS Event
— UCLA has reprimanded the former president of its Graduate Student Association for threatening to withhold funding for an event were it to promote divestment from Israel. Jewish organizations complained this week about the investigation by the university’s Discrimination Prevention Office that concluded last month. Complaints from Students for Justice in Palestine and the campus Diversity Caucus…
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Fast Forward Florida Appeals Ruling on Kosher Prison Meals
— The state of Florida asked a federal court of appeals to reverse the mandated kosher meals program they say drains their budget. The state is appealing a 2015 decision by a Miami judge requiring kosher food for anyone who requests it, including Jews, Muslims, Seventh Day Adventists and people of other faiths, accounting for about…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Yaakov Thompson, Convert Who Met First Jew in College, Dies at 61
— Yaakov Thompson, a popular Conservative rabbi in South Florida who was born Protestant and converted to Judaism in college, died suddenly at 61. Thompson’s family said the rabbi died of a heart attack on July 6. Born Rick Thompson and raised in St. Mary’s, Ohio, the future rabbi never met a Jewish person until…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Sues Ex-Adviser Sam Nunberg for $10M Over Leaks to Media
— Donald Trump has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a former campaign adviser, Sam Nunberg. The presumptive presidential Republican nominee is alleging that Nunberg, who was fired last August for racially offensive Facebook posts, may have violated his confidentiality agreement in statements to the media, an unnamed source confirmed to Mic on Wednesday. The Trump campaign…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Students Tie Police Brutality to Israel
NEW YORK — A pro-Palestinian student group at NYU that blamed Israel for recent police shootings of black men is now scaling back, somewhat, on the accusations it made on Facebook. In the original Facebook post from July 7, the New York University Students for Justice in Palestine group held Israel accountable for the black…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Mourn Slain Police and Urge Reforms After Dallas Slayings
— Jewish organizations are voicing anguish over the violence in Dallas that claimed the lives of five police officers during a peaceful demonstration protesting the recent shooting deaths of two unarmed black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. Officials say the police officers were killed by sniper fire during a protest Thursday evening. One suspect, who died during…
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