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Fast Forward Developer of World Financial Center Paul Reichmann Dies
Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist Paul Reichmann, who led the family’s Olympia and York company, has died. Reichmann died Friday in Toronto at the age of 83. Reichmann is known for his development of the Canary Wharf business district in London, as well as New York’s World Financial Center. Reichmann and his family lost…
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Fast Forward Biggest Barrier To Peace is ‘Unlimited’ Funds Given to AIPAC, Says Jack Straw
Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said during a debate in the British parliament that “unlimited” funds available to Jewish organizations and AIPAC in the U.S. are used to control American policy in the Middle East. The comments reportedly were made last week during the Round Table Global Diplomatic Forum in the British House of…
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Fast Forward Eight Israelis Hit by Rocks in Attack Near Hebron
Eight Israelis and a Palestinian girl were injured by stones thrown at the vehicles they were riding in near Hebron. The attacks came on Saturday night, following Shabbat activities in Hebron as part of the popular Chayei Sarah Shabbat in Hebron, where thousands of Jews gather for the reading of the Torah portion in which…
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Fast Forward Fake Hasidic Professor Busted in Poland
A 46-year-old man who pretended to be an Israeli professor has been arrested in Poland for having defrauded three Polish colleges in 2010, the Polish media reported. The reports say that the man, identified as Mariusz K., was arrested last week in Krakow, where he had fled when the case came to light. The Rzeczpospolita…
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Fast Forward Russian Orthodox Priest Chided for ‘Yid’ Jibe at Girl With Jewish Mother
Russian Church officials suspended a priest for using an anti-Semitic pejorative while baptizing a girl. The two-month ban on Andrey Evstigneeva was announced earlier this month on the website of the Diocese of Saratov, a city situated 450 miles southeast of Moscow. It followed complaints by the family and by the Russian Jewish Congress, the…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Vows Action on Jewish Ties
Pope Francis continued his outreach to Jews this week, reaffirming a commitment to fighting discrimination and furthering Jewish-Catholic dialogue. During an audience at the Vatican Thursday with a 60-member delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Francis said that he has “repeated many times, in recent weeks, the Church’s condemnation of any form of anti-Semitism.” Such…
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Fast Forward Alan Grayson Compares Tea Party to Ku Klux Klan
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said she was “disappointed” in fellow Florida Jewish Democrat Alan Grayson’s likening of the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan. “Obviously I am disappointed in the use of that imagery,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement to Politico. “Both sides need to…
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Books Bipartisan Charge To Return Iraqi Jewish Artifacts to Community, Not Government
Some Congress members are working to ensure that Iraqi Jewish artifacts now on display in Washington are returned directly to the Iraqi Jewish community and not the government. Reps. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) are leading the bipartisan effort to return the thousands of books, photos, texts and other materials that were found…
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