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Fast Forward Battle Over Limmud UK Erupts Between Haredis and Community Leaders
An open letter from senior British Jewish community leaders has taken to task a group of haredi Orthodox Jewish leaders for publicly calling for a boycott of the upcoming Limmud conference. The boycott call by the haredi rabbis, including the former head of the London Beth Din, Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentreu, is seen as a condemnation…
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News University of California at Berkeley Launches $1M Center for Jewish Studies
The University of California, Berkeley is launching a Center for Jewish Studies. The university made the announcement of the center, for which it allotted $1 million, on Wednesday. The center will be inaugurated on October 30. “The center will expand the breadth of Jewish studies scholarship here, connect more students to the wealth of Jewish…
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Fast Forward Nepal Chabad Rabbi Prevents Cremation of Jewish Accident Victim
A Chabad rabbi in Nepal averted the cremation of a 32-year-old Australian woman who died in a road accident. Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz told JTA by phone from Kathmandu Wednesday that he had just recovered the body of the former student of Beth Rivkah College in Melbourne. He said he was flown by helicopter from Kathmandu…
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Fast Forward Conservative Movement to Launch Rabbinical Seminary in Germany
The Conservative movement will open a seminary in Germany near Berlin. The Zacharias Frankel European Campus of the American Jewish University’s Ziegler Rabbinical School in Los Angeles is scheduled to launch next fall at the University of Potsdam. The seminary outside Berlin is believed to be the first Conservative seminary in Europe and will start…
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Fast Forward Jewish Soccer Coach Leads Colombia to World Cup
Led by its Jewish Argentine coach, Jose Pekerman, the Colombia soccer team will be returning to the World Cup following a 16-year absence. With Tuesday’s 2-1 victory over Paraguay, Colombia was in second place in the World Cup qualifying tournament for South American teams with 30 points, two behind Argentina. The top four squads automatically…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor’s Kin Seek Return of Looted Klimt Painting ‘Beethoven Frieze’
The family of a Holocaust survivor who fled Vienna in 1938 has filed a claim for the return of one of the country’s national treasures. The heirs of Erich Lederer, wealthy Austrian Jews who were important patrons of artist Gustav Klimt, have asked for the restitution of Klimt’s 1902 creation “Beethoven Frieze.” The claims were…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Passes Bill Backing Kosher Slaughter
The Lithuanian parliament passed a draft amendment aimed at preventing the outlawing of kosher slaughter. The amendment submitted by Vytautas Gapsys of the Labor party would benefit the “export of meat to Israel and Arab countries, which are new opportunities,” Gapsys told the news website obzor.lt on Tuesday. Fifty-one lawmakers in the 141-seat parliament voted…
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Fast Forward 22% of European Jews Afraid To Wear Kippah, Study Reveals
A quarter of respondents in a major survey of Jews from nine European countries said they avoid visiting places and wearing symbols that identify them as Jews for fear of anti-Semitism. Fear of wearing a kippah and other identifiably Jewish items was especially strong in Sweden, where 49 percent of 800 respondents said they refrained…
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