David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected] and on Twitter @davidianklein.
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By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward Dutch report calls for a ‘more empathetic attitude’ from Holocaust restitution committee
A Dutch state committee charged with the restitution of looted Holocaust-era property received a strong rebuke from the country’s government in a report released Monday. The report followed a complaint published in the Dutch News outlet NRC Handelsblad by leaders of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe and the Jewish Claims Conference, which said…
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Fast Forward Ivanka and Jared purchase lot on Miami’s ‘Billionaire’s Bunker’ for over $30 million
The president’s Jewish daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner haven’t yet announced where they will be headed when her father’s term in Washington is over in January, but a recent purchase suggests the couple may be following President Donald Trump to Florida. The couple has purchased a property worth more than $30 million…
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Fast Forward Biden pick for CDC, Rochelle Walensky, has told her synagogue how much she needs it
President-elect Joe Biden has found himself a nice Jewish doctor to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which President Donald Trump tried to control by installing two political operatives amid its leadership ranks. Now Biden has tapped Dr. Rochelle Walensky, an expert in HIV and AIDS research, to lead the agency. She is…
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Fast Forward ‘A good example of a bad apology:’ Jewish Twitter skeptical about Roald Dahl family’s mea culpa
30 years after the death of beloved children’s author Roald Dahl, the Dahl family and the Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages his copyrights and trademarks, issued a quiet, brief apology for the author’s not-so-beloved antisemitism. The author of such classics as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “James and the Giant Peach” had…
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News The U.S. and Iran both want to revive the nuclear deal. So why the saber-rattling from Iran?
President-elect Joe Biden said Wednesday that he wants to revive the nuclear deal with Iran passed during the Obama administration, when he was vice-president. Yet the same day Biden said he wanted to revive the deal, the Iranian parliament passed a law demanding that he, well, revive the deal. In other words, they demanded angrily…
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Fast Forward Israel may be having elections again — for the fourth time in 2 years
The Knesset has given preliminary approval to a bill which would dissolve it after Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition partner, said that he would back such a bill. on Tuesday night. However, the bill still needs to pass three more rounds of voting to become law. “Now is not the time…
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Fast Forward T-shirt companies promise to stop selling ‘Holocaugh’ T-shirts
Jewish groups have spoken out against online T-shirt companies Teespring and Redbubble who were selling shirts with the phrase “I survived the Holocaugh” on them, a white supremacist meme. Both Redbubble and Teespring responded to the StopAntisemitism.org’s tweet and acknowledged that the shirts broke their community guidelines and would be removed. Thank you for bringing…
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Fast Forward New York comedy duo plasters city with ‘Ivanka not wanted’ posters
A pair of New York comedians have appropriated and subverted the classic western-style “Wanted” poster to make a statement about Ivanka Trump. While those posters helped law-abiding citizens identify and detain the bad guys, Jason Slvig and Davram Stiefler — known as the “Good Liars” — are saying that Ivanka is a bad guy, too,…
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