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Fast Forward Nefesh B’Nefesh To Award $10,000 Prizes Recognizing High-Achieving Immigrants to Israel
A food bank chairman, a solar energy pioneer and the creator of the “Dry Bones” comic strip are among the first winners of a Nefesh B’Nefesh prize recognizing immigrants to Israel. More than 200 immigrants from English-speaking countries were nominated for the Bonei Zion Prize, which was awarded in five categories as well as for…
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Fast Forward ACLU Tells Wyoming Prison Department To Allow Inmates To Wear Kippahs
The American Civil Liberties Union has warned the Wyoming Department of Corrections that prohibiting an Orthodox Jewish inmate from wearing a kippah violates his religious freedom. The ACLU and the ACLU of Wyoming sent a letter on Jan. 9 to the Wyoming Department of Corrections on behalf of inmate Clarence Fisher, saying that its refusal…
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Fast Forward Google Apologizes for ‘Adolf-Hitler-Platz’ on Berlin Map
Google has apologized for labeling a Berlin intersection as Adolf-Hitler-Platz, its Nazi-era name, on Google Maps. The apology came on Friday, after the company was made aware of the error, apparently edited in by users of its Map Maker function. The intersection today is known as Theodor-Heuss-Platz, after West Germany’s first post-World War II president,…
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Fast Forward Sam Berns Dies at 17 From Rare Rapid Aging Disease
A Boston-area Jewish teen whose fight against a rare genetic disease that causes accelerated aging was chronicled in an Academy Award-contending documentary has died. Sam Berns of Foxborough, Mass., died Friday after a lifelong battle with progeria. He was 17, three years older than the typical life expectancy for children with the disease. Sam came…
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Fast Forward Iran Signs Agreement to Freeze Nuclear Production
Iran and six world powers signed the agreement implementing a plan that temporarily freezes Iran’s nuclear production. The Joint Plan of Action, which was finalized and approved on Sunday, will go into effect on Jan. 20. Under the agreement, which was completed in November, Iran will freeze most of its nuclear enrichment capability, including not…
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Fast Forward NY Congressman Engel Stands by Rabbi Avi Weiss in Letter to Netanyahu
New York Rep. Eliot L. Engel sent a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu to express his concern over the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s decision to reject Jewish status letters written by Rabbi Avi Weiss. Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote in the letter to Israel’s prime minister dated Jan. 10 that:…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic French Comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala Drops Tour
Amid an investigation into his finances and bans on his shows because of anti-Semitic content, French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala said he would abandon his nationwide tour. The comedian made the announcement Saturday at a news conference in which Dieudonne, whose mother was born in Cameroon, appeared dressed in traditional West African garb. “Today, a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Around the World Mourn Ariel Sharon
Jewish organizations in the United States and around the world expressed condolences on the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. “His legacy is a more secure State of Israel, safe on its borders and resolved to put an end to the campaign of Palestinian terrorism once and for all. It is not only…
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