Asaf Shalev
By Asaf Shalev
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Fast Forward Aaron Feuerstein, ‘Mensch of Malden Mills’ who paid his workers even after his factory burned down, dies at 95
(JTA) — Aaron Feuerstein, who became known as the “Mensch of Malden Mills” for continuing to pay his workers even after the textile factory he owned burned to the ground, died at 95 on Thursday. The devout Orthodox businessman died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, after being injured in a fall several days earlier,…
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Fast Forward Israel approves national budget, averting new government’s collapse and repeat election
(JTA) — In what was seen as a crucial test in Israel’s longstanding governing crisis, the country’s lawmakers managed to approve a national budget for the first time in more than three years on Thursday. A failure to do so by a Nov. 14 deadline would have meant the collapse of Israel’s new government and…
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Fast Forward As pandemic drove Judaism online, Chabad bet on more than $137 million in real estate
(JTA) — Facing declining membership, a mainline Protestant congregation in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood listed its historic church complex for sale in the summer of last year. Church leaders were told it would take at least a year to complete the deal. But within days, an attractive offer came in, and a few months later the building’s $2.85…
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Fast Forward Conservative movement publicly lists the rabbis it has expelled and suspended
(JTA) — Failing to pay membership dues, wedding a Jew to a non-Jew and sexually abusing a congregant — these are among the violations that have long served as grounds for the expulsion of rabbis from the Conservative movement’s rabbinical association. But until this week, news about which rabbis were ejected or suspended emerged in…
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Fast Forward How offshore accounts turned the British Virgin Islands into an east Jerusalem landlord
(JTA) — Some of the most contested real estate in east Jerusalem have come under the legal control of the British Virgin Islands in recent years because the Israeli settlers who managed the properties used offshore accounts and failed to pay corporate fees and taxes. This finding appeared in a series of recent reports by…
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Fast Forward Creator of Chabad’s famous menorah sexually abused girl, lawsuit claims
(JTA) — A new lawsuit claims that the man who crafted what might be the most famous menorah in the world sexually abused a young girl dozens of times in the 1990s and that a rabbinical court failed to hold him accountable. The survivor of this alleged abuse, now a 36-year-old woman living in Israel,…
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Fast Forward National Museum of American Jewish History emerges from bankruptcy
(JTA) — The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia will come out of bankruptcy in the coming weeks after a former trustee stepped in to buy the museum building and lease it back for a nominal monthly rent of $1,000. Mitchell Morgan, a local real estate CEO, will pay the museum about $10…
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Fast Forward State Department officials urge Blinken to fire officer who operates antisemitic blog
(JTA) — Six months after his internet posts attacking Jews came to light, a U.S. Foreign Service officer remains employed by the State Department. Now, at least 70 of his co-workers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding his dismissal. The letter, sent July 28, argues that Fritz Berggren is a threat…
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