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Fast Forward Chabad Builds 15,000 Menorahs Worldwide
Chabad-Lubavitch said it has erected more than 15,000 large public menorahs in cities throughout the world for Hanukkah. The organization also said it would distribute more than 700,000 personal menorahs, 30.800 million candles and 2.5 million holiday guides in 13 languages around the world for Hanukkah 2013. In addition, 5,000 menorahs will appear on top…
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Fast Forward Al Chernin, Soviet Jewry Advocate, Dies
Albert Chernin, executive vice chairman emeritus of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs who helped lead the Soviet Jewry movement, has died. Chernin died in his sleep on Nov. 26, according to his daughter Anne Chernin. Chernin headed the National Jewish Community Relations Council, the original name of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, or…
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Fast Forward Kosher Slaughter Gets New Hearing in Poland
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal has accepted for review an appeal by the Polish Jewish Community on the delegitimization of shechitah. Representatives of Jewish community were informed on Tuesday that the Constitutional Tribunal will consider the appeal. “It’s a promising sign on the eve of Chanukah,” Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Communities in…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Wife Plans New Freedom Push for Jew Held in Cuba
Alan Gross’ wife and Washington’s Jewish community will call on President Obama to make a priority of securing his release from a Cuban jail on the fourth anniversary of his imprisonment. Judy Gross will appear with officials from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington on Dec. 3 outside the White House in a…
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Fast Forward Pleading With Iran To Free Robert Levinson
The Obama administration reiterated its plea to Iran’s government to track and free a Jewish man held hostage for six years. “On March 9, 2007, American citizen and retired FBI Agent Robert Levinson went missing during a business trip to Kish Island, Iran,” said the statement issued Tuesday by the White House press office. “Today,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders in Oregon Protest Neo-Nazi Analogy in Gay Marriage Debate
Jewish leaders in Oregon protested the use of an analogy about a Jewish business serving neo-Nazis to make a point about whether businesses should have to serve same-sex weddings. Responding to the analogy used last week by a spokeswoman for the Oregon Family Council, 13 Oregon rabbis and leaders of the Jewish Federation of Greater…
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Fast Forward Israeli Defense Forces Kill Two Palestinians Planning ‘Terrorist Attack’
Israeli security forces killed two Palestinians that the Israeli military said were planning a terrorist attack. The Palestinians who were killed Tuesday in the Palestinian village of Yatta near Hebron were carrying explosive devices and guns, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The IDF said their terror plan was to be executed in…
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Fast Forward ADL Says Hate Crime Stats Flawed
The 2012 edition of the FBI’s national Hate Crime Statistics Act report is flawed due to underreporting and a lack of participation, the Anti-Defamation League said. The ADL in a statement Monday “expressed profound disappointment” that more than 25 percent of the nation’s law enforcement agencies did not provide the FBI with their hate crime…
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