Asaf Shalev
By Asaf Shalev
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Fast Forward An Ohio rabbi’s misconduct involved a child. No one told his congregants.
(JTA) – The year after Rabbi David Komerofsky started working at Temple Israel in Canton, Ohio, his new community threw him a party. Known in the synagogue world as an “installation,” the event marked Komerofsky’s arrival at Temple Israel. The Cleveland Jewish News covered the installation, noting that Komerofsky’s predecessor, Rabbi Jon Adland, had officiated the Nov….
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Fast Forward Serafim Sabaranskiy, a Ukrainian Jew who enlisted to defend his country, dies at 29 in a Russian airstrike
(JTA) — Serafim Sabaranskiy was a proud Jew and son of Ukraine. The 29-year-old, an active member of the Hillel chapter in his hometown of Kharkiv, saw the war coming early. He bought combat gear on Feb. 23, a day before the Russian invasion began, and as soon as the fighting started, he enlisted with…
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Fast Forward ADL develops algorithm to track antisemitism on social media
(JTA) – When it comes to antisemitism on social media, the algorithms governing the major platforms shoulder some of the blame for their reach. But the Anti-Defamation League hopes to fight the spread — by creating an algorithm of its own. The Jewish civil rights group announced Tuesday that it has built a system called…
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Fast Forward Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their donations come under threat of Western sanctions amid Ukraine war
(JTA) – Jewish communities in Ukraine received a $10 million gift from a perhaps unlikely source Monday: a charitable organization founded by three Russian Jewish oligarchs who are being accused of having supported the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The donation is small for the three billionaires behind Genesis Philanthropy Group — Mikhail Fridman,…
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Fast Forward American Jewish University is selling ‘all or part’ of its Los Angeles campus
(JTA) – After some 45 years occupying an iconic piece of real estate in Los Angeles, American Jewish University plans to sell “all or part” of its 35-acre campus. The campus in the Bel-Air neighborhood is home to the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, a seminary that ordains rabbis for Judaism’s Conservative movement. American Jewish…
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Fast Forward ‘Maus’ supporters rally and Tennessee school board doubles down in first meeting since book’s removal
(JTA) – Demonstrators in McMinn County, Tennessee, on Thursday called on the local school board to reverse its recent decision to remove “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir on the Holocaust, from the middle school curriculum, adding to complaints by Jews around the country over the past few weeks. The board, however, rebuffed…
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Fast Forward The Great Resignation is fueling a rabbinic hiring crisis that could leave synagogues without leaders
(JTA) – In early December, Judaism’s Conservative movement sent a disquieting message to dozens of synagogues looking for a new rabbi: Many of you won’t make a hire this year. At least 80 Conservative synagogues anticipated rabbi vacancies — approximately one of every seven affiliated with the movement, the email said. At most, 50 to 60…
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Fast Forward Michael Steinhardt’s looted Israeli antiquity came from same caves his donations helped preserve
(JTA) – Among the antiquities that billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is accused of trading illegally is a 2,200-year-old artifact that was likely looted from a cave complex regularly excavated by young Jews traveling to Israel on a program that Steinhardt funds. The ties among the Heliodorus Stele, Birthright Israel and Steinhardt illuminate just how complicated…
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