Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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News Hebrew school enrollment across US down by nearly half since 2006, report says
The report identifies pockets of growth, mostly in the small number of programs that operate outside of synagogues, and in schools operated by the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement
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Fast Forward Funds for Tel Aviv apartment given to Putin’s former teacher came from Roman Abramovich, records reveal
The records undermine denials by Abramovich, a Russian Jewish oligarch, of a financial relationship with Vladimir Putin
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News Inside the auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world
Booming sales at Genazym are credited to a newly affluent Orthodox community willing to spend on heritage items
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News Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust
The online encyclopedia will probe allegations that volunteer editors put blame for the genocide on Jews and absolve Poles of collaboration
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Fast Forward American patron of Israeli archaeology becomes focus of New York’s antiquities trafficking unit
Shelby White, who donates to several Jewish institutions, has already relinquished at least two dozen items worth at least $20 million
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Fast Forward Disgraced former Reform movement leader Sheldon Zimmerman expelled from rabbinical association
The expulsion provides a measure of closure in a reckoning that has gripped the Reform movement for nearly two years
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News Soviet Jewry protest leaders in San Francisco secretly recruited help from Jews for Jesus, FBI file says
If the FBI’s intelligence is accurate, a movement that unified much of the global Jewish community relied at least to some extent on the support of a reviled group whose mission is to proselytize to Jews
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Fast Forward As foreign investors warn over Israel’s future, ratings firm accused of anti-Israel bias says it’s not worried — for now
A spokesperson for the investing rating company Morningstar said that its analysis designating Israel a low-risk country does not yet account for Netanyahu's judicial reform overhaul
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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