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Fast Forward Sephardic Jews Call $6M Heritage Project ‘Reparation’ for Inquisition and Expulsion
Spanish officials have helped rededicate two ancient Jewish cemeteries, as Portugal kicked off a $6 million project for preserving its Jewish heritage sites. The rededication ceremonies of the Jewish cemeteries of Lucena in southern Spain, dated to the 10th century A.D., and in Avila near Madrid, which was in use in the 12th century A.D.,…
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Fast Forward Polish Jewish Museum Delays Opening of Main Exhibit Amid $2.5M Budget Gap
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews has gone over budget and the official opening of its permanent core exhibition has been pushed back. The official opening has been delayed until Fall 2014, the museum’s Virtual Shtetl web portal reported Tuesday. The museum is seeking an extra $2.5 million – half from the state…
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Fast Forward Judge Hearing Sholom Rubashkin’s Agriprocessors Appeal Rebukes Defense on Juror Contacts
A federal judge reprimanded an attorney working on behalf of jailed former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin. In a meeting Tuesday, U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade told the attorney that interviews of jurors in Rubashkin’s 2009 trial on bank fraud charges cannot be used for future appeals or other court proceedings, according to The Gazette,…
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Fast Forward Hobby Lobby Looking Into Anti-Hanukkah Bias
Hobby Lobby, following a blog report that the chain did not stock Hanukkah merchandise, said it was evaluating its inventory and looking into an alleged anti-Jewish slur by one of its employees. Ken Berwitz on his Hopelessly Partisan blog wrote over the weekend that a friend who asked about Hanukkah goods at the arts and…
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Fast Forward Europe Lawmakers Pass Anti-Circumcision Measure
A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of the physical integrity of children” was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The council, a pan-European intergovernmental organization, debated and passed the resolution on Tuesday based on a report by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development led…
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Fast Forward Legal Marijuana Would Light Up Israel Economy to Tune of $450M
Legalizing marijuana would generate more than $450 million annually for the Israeli economy, a new study shows. The black market for cannabis in Israel currently is worth $707 million annually, according to the study released Tuesday by the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies. If the sale of marijuana was legalized and it was taxed at…
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Fast Forward Israel Wants Yom Kippur as U.N. Holiday
Israel asked the United Nations to recognize Yom Kippur as an official U.N. holiday. Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin and Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Ron Prosor, met Monday with U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson to request international recognition for Yom Kippur, Haaretz reported. With the recognition, U.N. employees would be allowed to take a…
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Fast Forward British Leader Ed Miliband Defends Father Against ‘Jewish Marxist’ Jibe
Britain’s Labor Party leader Ed Miliband defended his late father against a newspaper’s claim that he was an unpatriotic Jewish Marxist who “hated Britain.” The Daily Mail, in an article published Saturday under the headline “The Man Who Hated Britain,” reported that Ralph Miliband, a Jewish refugee from Belgium who fled to Britain before World…
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