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Fast Forward Nazi-Hunters’ ‘Last Chance’ Campaign Bears Fruit With Arrests
Video: Nate Lavey At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months. The alleged Nazi war criminals were identified following an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded…
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Fast Forward Is Romania Fit for Holocaust Remembrance Role?
Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with its own Holocaust-era culpability. “Romania’s actions prove it is not ready to assume responsibility for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews during the Holocaust, when Romanian troops…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Bounce Leader Mate Feldmajer for Anti-Gay Stand
Hungarian Jewish leaders condemned a prominent member of the community for his anti-gay statements. On Monday, the Mazsihisz federation of Jewish communities ordered an internal investigation into the conduct of Mate Feldmajer, head of the Mazsihisz youth division, who last week said in an internal email that homosexuals “do not make recommendations [at Mazsihisz],” and…
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Fast Forward Australia Shifts to Pro-Israel Stand at U.N.
Australia’s new government has shifted its voting pattern at the United Nations, refusing to support one-sided anti-Israel resolutions. Australia’s delegate at the U.N. abstained from two votes earlier this month at the General Assembly: one condemning the expansion of Jewish settlements and another calling for the Geneva Convention to apply in the West Bank and…
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Fast Forward New Brandeis Textbook Offers Even-Handed Look at Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A textbook on the Arab-Israeli conflict co-authored by a Palestinian, an Israeli and an Egyptian has been published. The project was a seven-year undertaking by the founding scholars of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. “Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East” is a collaboration of Shai Feldman,…
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Fast Forward Harvard Christian Blog Sorry for ‘Jews Killed Jesus’ Post
The student-run Harvard Ichthus Christian blog website apologized for an anonymous post saying that Jews deserve to be persecuted for killing Jesus. The apology was issued on Friday. The post, which has been removed from the site, was published on Nov. 20. “(W)e sincerely apologize for breaching the confidence of civil dialogue. This has been…
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Fast Forward Jews Nervous Over Win by Slovakia Neo-Nazi Marian Kotleba
European officials must act to reverse the momentum of neo-Nazi political parties, the head of the European Jewish Congress said following a victory in Slovakia by a neo-Nazi candidate. EJC President Moshe Kantor issued a statement Sunday in the wake of the victory by Marian Kotleba, the ex-chairman of the banned Togetherness National Party. Kotleba…
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Fast Forward Brandeis President Vows To Keep Talking to Palestinian Sister College
Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence said he would reach out to the president of Al-Quds University in the wake of the U.S. school suspending relations between the two institutions over an Islamic Jihad rally. In a statement posted Friday on the Brandeis website, Lawrence said the decision to suspend relations with Al-Quds University “was taken…
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