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Fast Forward Azerbaijan City Earmarks Land for Jewish Cultural Center, Kosher Eatery
The city of Baku in Azerbaijan has allocated land for the construction of a Jewish cultural center and the Azeri capital’s first kosher restaurant. The municipality has given the community of Mountain Jews, one of the country’s three Jewish communities, approximately 600 square yards for the restaurant, which will be part of a three-story cultural…
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Fast Forward Sapling from Anne Frank’s Tree Cut Down in Amsterdam
A sapling that came from the tree that stood outside the hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was cut down and stolen in Frankfurt, German police said. The cutting was planted in 2008 outside Frankfurt’s Anne Frank School, named after the world-famous Jewish teenage diarist who was born in the German city in 1929…
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Fast Forward Court Rules California Family May Proceed with Legal Battle over Nazi-Looted Art
A Jewish family may proceed with its legal battle to recover a valuable painting surrendered to the Nazis following a ruling by a U.S. appeals court on lost artwork. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday reinstated a California law allowing lawsuits to recover artwork lost as long as 100…
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Fast Forward Dutch Water Company Severs Ties With Israel Over West Bank Operations
The largest public water company in the Netherlands has severed ties with Israel’s national water company over its operation in West Bank settlements. Vitens in ceasing cooperation with Merkorot said in a statement Tuesday on its website that it “attaches great importance to integrity and adheres to international law and regulations. After discussions with stakeholders,…
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Fast Forward Spanish Duke Apologies To Jews of Gibraltar for Inquisition Era Expulsion
A Spanish aristocrat offered an official apology to the Jewish community of Gibraltar for the expulsion of Jews in the 15th century. The duke of Medina Sidonia, D. Alonso Gonzalez de Gregorio y Alvarez de Toledo, read the apology to members of the Gibraltar Jewish Community on Monday at the Instituto Cervantes, the Gibraltar Chronicle…
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Fast Forward PLO Urges NBC To Pull Filming of ‘Dig’ Show in Jerusalem
A Palestinian leader asked the NBC television network to pull out of filming a drama series in the Old City of Jerusalem. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, called for a halt to production of “Dig,” which is set to be filmed in the City of David national park located in the…
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Fast Forward Hillel Issues Warning to Swarthmore Chapter About Flouting Israel Guidelines
Hillel International warned its Swarthmore College chapter that it cannot use the Hillel name if it flouts the international Jewish campus group’s Israel guidelines. Hillel delivered the warning Tuesday in a sharply worded letter following the Swarthmore chapter student board’s decision to repudiate Hillel guidelines prohibiting partnerships with groups deemed hostile toward Israel. In his…
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Fast Forward Former Jobbik Leader Expelled From Canada Before Montreal Chabad Speech
A former leader of the ultranationalist Jobbik party in Hungary was sent out of Canada prior to a speaking engagement in Montreal. On Sunday, Canadian immigration officials ordered Csanad Szegedi on a plane back to Budapest just before he was slated to address a Chabad group. Approximately 200 people who came out to hear Szegedi,…
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