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Fast Forward Super Dumped for Failing to Fire ‘No Good Jew’
A lower Manhattan superintendent said he was fired after refusing to fire a man his boss called a “no-good New York City Jew.” Greco said after he was hired in May 2011 as a superintendent at the U.S. Custom House in lower Manhattan, his boss, Howard Anastasi, ordered him to fire the Jewish worker, the…
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Fast Forward 55 Universities Reject Push for Academic Boycott of Israel
At least 55 American universities and colleges have rejected the American Studies Association membership vote in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. The number was tracked by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “This remarkable response is a clear declaration that American academia will not be party to the efforts to…
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Fast Forward Man Flashes ‘Nazi’ Quenelle Salute at Toulouse School Where Gunman Killed Jewish Children
Amid a public debate in France over an allegedly anti-Semitic gesture, French media have reproduced a photo of a man performing it outside the Toulouse school where four Jews were murdered. The photo, which was published Monday on the website of the France 3 broadcaster, shows a man wearing a shirt featuring a portrait of…
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Fast Forward Chabad ‘Drinking’ Suit Against Northwestern Tossed by Federal Judge
A federal judge has dismissed a religious discrimination lawsuit filed against Northwestern University by Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois. Judge John Darrah of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois last week ruled that Northwestern University in Evanston Ill. had “legitimate, nondiscriminatory” reasons for disaffiliating with the Tannenbaum Chabad House, the Daily Northwestern…
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Fast Forward 26 Palestinian Prisoners Readied for Release
Some 26 Palestinian prisoners were transferred to Ofer Prison in preparation for their release as part of the revived Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Meanwhile, Almagor – a group representing terror victims – on Monday asked Israel’s Supreme Court to prevent the release of six of the prisoners, who are residents of eastern Jerusalem and hold Israeli…
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Fast Forward Death Camp Barracks Is Returned to Auschwitz
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has returned a section of wooden barracks that was given on long-term loan by the Auschwitz museum 24 years ago. The barracks — half of a wooden building in which Jewish prisoners slept while imprisoned in the death camp — arrived at Poland’s port of Gdynia on Sunday, the Associated…
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Fast Forward Warren Buffett Gives $10M to Rambam Hospital
American billionaire Warren Buffett is donating $10 million to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. The gift was announced last week by Israeli businessman Eitan Wertheimer during a dinner to celebrate Rambam’s 75th year, the Israeli business daily Globes first reported. Wertheimer and Buffett are close friends since the 2006 sale of 80 percent of the Wertheimer’s…
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Fast Forward Immigration to Israel Rises by 7% — Led by French
Israel welcomed some 19,200 new immigrants in 2013, with French Jews leading the way. The number of new immigrants in 2013 was a modest increase from the 18, 940 who arrived in 2012, the Jewish Agency for Israel said in a statement. The year 2013 saw a 7 percent increase in aliyah from most countries,…
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