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Fast Forward Should Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder Change Football Team’s Name?
Professional sports teams should seriously consider moving away from “the use of hurtful and offensive names, mascots and logos,” the Anti Defamation League said. The ultimate decision to change a team’s name, however, “should come from the team’s ownership with input from the fan base. It is up to them to decide to let go…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen’s Faith Slips Under the Radar As Gender Takes Over
WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen is soft-spoken, tough, methodological, flexible — and Jewish. President Obama’s announcement last week that he had tapped Yellen, 67, to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve made news in part because she would be the first woman in the top spot. That very little was made of her…
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Food Save Eli’s!
WASHINGTON — Eli’s Restaurant, a popular kosher eatery in Washington D.C., frequented by politicians, lobbyists and government workers, may have a date with the wrecking ball. According to a petition being circulated on Change.org, its “current storefront will be demolished as part of a redevelopment plan.” The petition, which had 100 signatures as of Tuesday,…
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Fast Forward Nazi War Criminal’s Son Blames Jews for Italy Burial Feud
The son of convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke said his father “can be buried in Israel so that they will be happy,” referring to Jews. Jorge Priebke, reacting to rejections by Rome, Argentina and his father’s hometown in German to provide a venue for the funeral, told the Italian news agency Ansa that his…
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Fast Forward South African Lawmaker Rapped for Remark on Cape Town Jewish Property Owners
A ruling African National Congress party lawmaker has apologized for what has been characterized as anti-Semitic remarks, after a South African lawmaker filed a complaint with the party. Veteran lawmaker Professor Ben Turok, who co-authored the liberation movement’s Freedom Charter, the 1955 document designed to give all South Africans equal rights, filed the complaint against…
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Fast Forward Spanish Jews Want 833-Year-Old Toledo Sephardic Synagogue Back From Catholics
Representatives of Spain’s Jewish communities asked Catholic Church officials to return a former synagogue in Toledo during an interfaith conference in Madrid. Isaac Querub, the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, or FCJE, made the request Sunday during the 22nd meeting of the Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, a body set up by the…
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Fast Forward New York Man Returns Overdue Holocaust Book to Library — 42 Years Late
A New York man returned a library book about the Holocaust to his home town library in Fall River, Mass. more than 40 years after he checked it out. Shimon Pepper returned “While Six Million Died,” by Arthur Morse to the Fall River Public Library last week, the Herald News reported. Its due date was…
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Fast Forward Meet the Jewish Teen Who Helped Carry Out Kosher Chicken E Coli Study
For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman had an unusual Saturday ritual: He and his mother would ride around metropolitan New York and buy up vast quantities of raw chicken. Millman and his mother, Ann Marks, didn’t cook the poultry. Instead they put it on ice and shipped it…
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