Dan Goldberg (JTA)
By Dan Goldberg (JTA)
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Fast Forward Australian Candidates Compete for ‘Pro-Israel’ Title
As the two major parties in Australia’s federal election vie for the title of Israel’s most ardent backer, most Jewish leaders believe that Australia’s longstanding, strong bilateral support for the Jewish state will not be jeopardized regardless of the outcome. Along with support for Israel, Australia’s 110,000-strong Jewish community will consider perennial election issues such…
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Fast Forward Conservative Movement To Open Its First Shul Down Under
It began with a small ad placed in the Melbourne edition of the Australian Jewish News by John Rosenberg, a Jewish professor who liked neither the constraints of Orthodoxy nor the lack of tradition in Reform Judaism. A decade later, Rosenberg’s solution, Kehilat Nitzan (Hebrew for “bud”), has bloomed into Australia’s first and only independent…
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Fast Forward Jewish Author’s Estate Accuses Harry Potter’s Rowling of Plagiarism
It could be the script for a best-selling novel or a blockbuster film. Instead it’s the real story of the estate of a bankrupt Jewish author who died in London more than a decade ago and now is now at the center of a “billion-dollar” copyright case against J.K. Rowling, the multimillionaire author of “Harry…
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Film & TV So, what’s the deal with the honey scene in ‘Marty Supreme?’
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Fast Forward A whites-only, no-Jews community says it’s found a legal loophole. A Jewish lawmaker in Pennsylvania wants to close it.
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Israel News Somaliland already operates as a de facto state. So why is Israel’s recognition of it so controversial?
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Antisemitism Decoded Things are only going to get worse for Jews from here
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Fast Forward The judge in Maduro’s case is an Orthodox Jew — and displays a Torah verse in his chambers
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Fast Forward Venezuela’s acting leader says ‘Zionist undertones’ marked U.S. capture of Maduro
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Culture These Jewish artists are searching for home — at America’s only Catholic historically Black university
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