Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Fast Forward Germany agrees to record $1.4 billion in annual Holocaust reparations as survivors age
The figure reflected a recognition that, even as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles with each passing year, the needs of the remaining survivors are increasing as they age
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Fast Forward Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium
'Nothing like this has ever happened to me,' said the Holocaust scholar whose lecture was interrupted
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Fast Forward Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps debate over Polish complicity
The online encyclopedia didn’t take a position on the underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity with the Nazis, instead focused on whether editors adhered to the community’s code of conduct
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Fast Forward Conservative Ziegler rabbinical school to relocate to ‘heart of Jewish life’ in Los Angeles
American Jewish University is renting space for Ziegler in a commercial building in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood
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News The historian who uncovered the ADL’s secret plot against the far-right John Birch Society
The Birchers’ mission to defend Christianity and capitalism morphed into a radical anti-civil rights agenda that groups like the ADL saw as an existential threat
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Fast Forward Jewish institutions awaken to climate crisis, with hundreds pledging action
Jewish climate activists are declaring a "paradigm shift" and "culture change" that they say have put an end to decades of inaction on climate
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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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