Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Judaica seller signs deal with feds to return Nazi-looted 16th-century Bible to Budapest seminary
Hungarian officials last year contacted American authorities about an online listing for a rare book with an asking price of $19,000 and a suspicious resemblance to book that had disappeared after the Nazi invasion of Budapest
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Fast Forward US announces sanctions on Israel’s Hilltop Youth movement over West Bank violence
The informal movement forms a core of extremist settler activity
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Fast Forward Investigation clears Ziegler rabbinical school deans of ethics code allegations
But an ethics committee found that two rabbis “did not always meet the highest standards of conduct expected” of them
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Fast Forward Museum of the Bible unveils world’s ‘oldest Jewish book’ in new exhibit
The handwritten manuscript of prayers and poems dates back 1,300 years and originates with Jews who lived in a Buddhist civilization in what is now Afghanistan
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Fast Forward House approves bill to study making US Jewish history museum part of the Smithsonian
Lawmakers cited increased antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment as a reason to support the proposal for the Philadelphia museum
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Fast Forward Civilian effort to equip Israeli soldiers for war with Hezbollah ratchets up alongside hostilities
Different weather, terrain and adversaries mean soldiers fighting in the north have different needs from those in Gaza
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News Israel expels British Jewish activist who tried to immigrate under Law of Return
Leo Franks believes he was punished for his political activism and prevented from making aliyah by officials in Israel’s Interior Ministry
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Fast Forward Brown University trustee resigns in protest of school’s upcoming Israel divestment vote
Joseph Edelman said that agreeing to activist demands to hold a vote on a divestment is a “reward” to a movement that promotes antisemitism
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