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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Roiled by Top Official’s Resignation
The sudden departure this month of the Jewish Agency’s veteran chief financial officer, Yaron Neudorfer, is sending shock waves through the cash-strapped organization as it grapples with a severe budget deficit. Neudorfer, who announced his resignation last month, is set to leave the Jewish Agency next week. The speedy manner of his departure, the fact…
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Fast Forward Israel Court Approves Thousands of Conversions
The High Court of Justice has affirmed the validity of thousands of conversions called into question by the Rabbinical Court of Appeals in 2008, but refused to discuss the rabbinical courts’ authority to annul conversions in general. Nevertheless, the justices leveled harsh criticism at the rabbinical courts’ conduct. “The Rabbinical Court of Appeals rode roughshod…
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Fast Forward Germany Will Publish Hitler’s Mein Kampf
For the first time since the end of World War II, Germany will officially publish Adolf Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf.” The state of Bavaria, which owns the copyrights to the anti-Semitic work, reached the decision to publish the work. The publication of an annotated edition of the work, complete with an explanation to readers of…
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Fast Forward Israel Leftists Detained Over Memorial Day
Israel Police prohibited members of a left-wing NGO from exiting a Tel Aviv building on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, activists said, claiming that the lockdown was meant to prevent them from distributing postcards concerning the displacement of Palestinians during the War of Independence in 1948. According to the report, members of Zochrot –…
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Fast Forward Ex-London Mayor Seeks To Make Nice to Jews
Two-term former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, has always made a point of using the city’s public transport to get around Britain’s capital. On Tuesday morning, he took the elevator from the platform of Belsize Park Underground station up to street-level. For a couple of seconds, it seemed to stop in mid-ascent. “Maybe we’ll get stuck”…
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Fast Forward Israel Marks 64th Birthday With Celebration
Celebrations of 64 years of Israeli independence kicked off on Wednesday night with the lighting of beacons at the official ceremony at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, which also marks the conclusion of Memorial Day. The official ceremony was marred by the fateful accident at the site last week, in which 20-year-old Israel Defense…
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Fast Forward Paul Krugman: Israeli Policies ‘Suicide’
New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman believes that the policies of the current “narrow minded” Israeli government “are basically a gradual long-run form of national suicide.” Writing in his New York Times blog “Conscience of a Liberal” about Peter Beinart’s controversial book “The Crisis of Zionism,” Krugman writes, “Like many liberal…
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Fast Forward Israel Ambassador Meets Zimbabwe’s Mugabe
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dan Shacham, Israel’s non-resident ambassador to Africa, met one of the most notorious dictators in the world, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, who is considered one of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s closest associates, has been slapped with harsh sanctions by Egypt and the European Union for grave human rights violations and…
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