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Fast Forward Cummings Foundation Focuses on Inequality and Climate Change
A Jewish family foundation that allocates $30 million per year is narrowing its focus to two issues: inequality and climate change. The Nathan Cummings Foundation has given $5 million -$6 million annually to Jewish organizations, primarily through its Jewish life program. Simon Greer, the foundation’s executive director, told JTA the new focus is the culmination…
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Fast Forward Italian Chief Rabbi Vows To Fight Firing
A rabbi has threatened to sue the Jewish community in the northeast Italian city of Trieste for firing him as the community’s chief rabbi. Rabbi Itzhak David Margalit, 64, has hired a lawyer and was flying to Israel this week to consult with the chief rabbinate there, according to a front page article Wednesday in…
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Fast Forward ‘Righteous’ Bulgarian Dimitar Peshev Gets Washington D.C. Street Named After Him
The street in front of the Bulgarian Embassy was renamed Dimitar Peshev Plaza, in honor of the man credited with halting the deportation of about 50,000 Jews. A 45-minute ceremony witnessed by close to 75 people was held Nov. 12, after the D.C. Council unanimously voted to give the intersection of 22nd and R St….
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Fast Forward 3 More Australia Abuse Victims Come Forward as Scandal Spreads
Three more people have alleged they were victims of child sexual abuse in Melbourne as the scandal that has embroiled the Jewish community since 2011 continues to deepen. The three Jews – who have not been named – claimed they were abused at children’s homes run by a Jewish welfare organization in the 1960s. Jewish…
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Fast Forward Montreal Candidate Wants ‘Jewish’ Off Hospital Name — and Circumcision Ban
Worry among Quebec Jews over a proposed bill to ban public sector workers from wearing religious attire at work increased over comments made by a ruling party candidate in the province. In a Facebook exchange made public this week, Parti Quebecois candidate Tania Longpré called for an end to circumcision and for “Jewish” to be…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Hebrew Charter School Gets F
A Brooklyn academy touted as the model for a national movement of Hebrew charter schools received an F on its New York City Department of Education Progress Report. The Hebrew Language Academy Charter School, which opened in 2009 and has 450 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, is one of 23 New York City elementary…
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Fast Forward Naturalized Palestinian Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Lying About Bomber Past
A naturalized American citizen of Palestinian descent pleaded not guilty to charges that she lied about her conviction in the deadly bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in order to gain U.S. citizenship. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, appeared Wednesday in federal court in Detroit, where she was granted citizenship in 2004. She was released on bond,…
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Fast Forward Argentina Prosecutor Sues To Kill Deal With Iran on 1994 Jewish Center Bombing Probe
An Argentine prosecutor has asked a judge to declare as unconstitutional an agreement between Argentina and Iran to jointly investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that local courts blamed on Tehran. Alberto Nisman, who oversaw an investigation of the AMIA center explosion that killed 85 people, presented the appeal…
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