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Fast Forward Virginia Republican Apologizes for Jewish Joke
An official in the Virginia Republican Party apologized for an anti-Semitic joke. “Earlier this week, I made a lighthearted attempt at humor to which some have taken offense,” John Whitbeck, the chairman of the party in the state’s Tenth Congressional District, said in a statement posted Sept. 20 on its website. “It was certainly not…
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Fast Forward Italian Cyclist Gino Bartali Named Righteous Gentile
Yad Vashem posthumously recognized the Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali as Righteous Among the Nations. The Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem said in a statement Monday that during the German occupation of Italy beginning in September 1943, “Bartali, a devout Catholic, was part of a rescue network spearheaded by Rabbi Nathan Cassuto of Florence together with…
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Fast Forward Jewish Immigration Advocate Hit With Child Porn Charge
Roy Naim, a leading Jewish activist for immigration reform, was arrested on child pornography charges. Naim, 29, pleaded not guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to charges of receiving child pornography, CNN reported. The Brooklyn resident, who immigrated to the United States with his family from Israel at 3, was one of…
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Fast Forward Holland Won’t Ban Made-in-Israel Products
The Netherlands opposes any kind of import ban on Israeli products, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said, though it must enforce European Union legislation on labeling settlement goods. “I would like to stress that the Netherlands opposes any type of import ban or the boycott of Israeli products,” a Dutch official wrote in Rutte’s name…
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Fast Forward Jewish Expert Named to Homeland Security Panel
The top security official for Jewish organizations was named to a consulting body to the Department of Homeland Security. Paul Goldenberg, the director of the Secure Community Network, was appointed to a three-year term on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. The Jewish Federations of North America, a sponsor of the SCN, announced Goldenberg’s appointment on…
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Fast Forward World Jewish Congress Slams Polish Magazine Over Claim of Mismanaging Restitution Funds
The World Jewish Congress slammed a Polish magazine report that alleged corrupt practices in the restitution and management of Jewish property in Poland. In a statement issued Sept. 18, WJC President Ronald Lauder called the report in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine “littered with factual errors” and “sensationalist,” and its allegations “unfounded and slanderous.”…
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Fast Forward 80,000 Men Gather at Kotel for Priestly Blessing
Some eighty thousand men gathered at the Western Well for the holiday priestly blessing. Some 100 kohanim blessed the men gathered for morning prayers on Sunday, according to a statement issued by the office of the Rabbi of the Western Wall. Among those in attendance at the prayer service were the chief rabbis of Israel,…
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Fast Forward Suspect in Alleged Death Threat Against Toulouse Jewish School Jailed
French police have arrested a young man suspected of making death threats against staff of a Jewish school in Toulouse. The unnamed 20-year-old was arrested over the weekend near Vesoul, a city in eastern France, for allegedly threatening last week to kill people at the school where the Islamist extremist Mohammed Merah last year gunned…
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