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Fast Forward Detroit Jews Aim for Closer Ties to Muslims
Jewish and Muslim officials in the Detroit area examined areas where they could cooperate more closely. The daylong event, “A Shared Future,” was co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee’s Detroit office and the Michigan Muslim Community Council. Panelists at Sunday’s event included state lawmakers of both faiths, officials from the local Arab American National Museum…
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Fast Forward Warsaw Demolishes Historic Wall in Ghetto
Workers began demolishing a wall in Warsaw near the spot where Jews were gathered for transport to the Treblinka concentration camp. The demolition of the wall bordering the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz was first reported Tuesday by the Virtual Shtetl website. The brick wall, which in some places is…
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Fast Forward Poland Says Non-Commercial Kosher Slaughter Legal
Polish Jews who perform non-commercial ritual slaughter for the needs of the Jewish community are not violating the law, Poland’s parliament announced in a statement. The statement appeared in a position paper by the Sejm, Poland’s parliament, that parliament sent recently to the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, the Warsaw-based Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily newspaper reported Wednesday….
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Fast Forward Kosher Nightclub Shahar Opens in Moscow
A Russian Jewish group is preparing to open a kosher nightclub in the center of Moscow. The opening of the new institution, the Shahar Club, is slated for April 5, the Russia-language Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported on Tuesday. “Jewish youth in Moscow should have somewhere with an easy, relaxed atmosphere to hang out, discuss…
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Fast Forward Russian Politician Revives ‘Jews Killed Jesus’ Trope
A local politician from Russia’s ruling party made statements suggesting that Jews killed Jesus. Vitaly Milonov made the statements last month during a meeting of St. Petersburg’s city council, where he serves as a lawmaker for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, the svodka.net news website reported earlier this week. “They vilify any saint, it…
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Fast Forward Is Campaign on French Rail Firm Blamed in Holocaust ‘Self-Defeating’?
Efforts by state legislatures to force a French rail company to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors deported by train to Nazi death camps are hurting their chances of ever receiving money, said Stuart Eizenstat. Eizenstat, a special assistant to Secretary of State John Kerry on Holocaust issues, has been in talks with the French government…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Drop to 751 — Lowest Level in 25 Years
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States decreased by 19 percent in 2013, but physical assaults against Jews increased, according to the Anti-Defamation League. In its Annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, the ADL reported that there 751 incidents in 41 states and Washington, D.C. — among the lowest number since 1979, when the…
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Fast Forward British Orthodox School Kills Questions on Evolution
In the wake of an Orthodox Jewish day school redacting questions about evolution from a national science exam, England’s exams office said the practice is not permissible. The U.K. Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, or Ofqual, sent a message to all public exam boards saying that blocking out questions on national exams is “malpractice”…
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