Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Fast Forward NEH’s unprecedented $10M grant to Tikvah has some Jews celebrating and others crying foul
Tikvah is a conservative think tank and education center
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Fast Forward California lawmakers approve narrowed bill targeting antisemitism in schools
The bill received near-unanimous support despite the objection of the state’s largest teachers union
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Fast Forward In Epstein’s birthday tribute, traces of his Jewish upbringing surface alongside lurid tales
The disgraced financier’s birthday book reveals his Jewish name, Yudel, and shows him squeezing an accordion at a bar mitzvah
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Fast Forward Spurning Jewish Voice for Peace as insufficiently radical, new Jewish student group joins ‘student intifada’
The Anti-Zionist Jewish Student Front’s logo includes the words “L’chaim Intifada” in Yiddish
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Fast Forward Ahead of mayoral election, Brooklyn synagogue demands voter registration to attend High Holiday services
Leaders of the Syrian Jewish community have framed the rise of Zohran Mamdani’s rise as an existential threat
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Fast Forward World Zionist Congress election results are finalized, with Orthodox and right-wing slates securing majority of US seats
After months of fraud probes and legal appeals, tribunals cleared contested ballots and certified final seat allocations.
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Fast Forward Turkish authorities cancel French-Algerian Jewish singer’s concert over his support for Israel
Enrico Macias, beloved in Turkey for decades, was barred amid rising anti-Israel sentiment
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Fast Forward Clock ticking on California’s K-12 antisemitism bill as legislative session nears end
The bill would create the country’s first state antisemitism watchdog for public schools
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