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Fast Forward Ontario Passes Religious Freedom Motion
A motion introduced by a Jewish legislator in Ontario to reaffirm the Canadian province’s commitment to religious freedom passed unanimously. The motion introduced by Monte Kwinter, a veteran Liberal Member of the Provincial Parliament was specifically meant to distinguish Ontario from neighboring Quebec’s proposed ban on religious symbols in the workplace. The proposed Charter of…
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Fast Forward French Town Unveils Judaica Treasure Hidden During Holocaust
A town near Strasbourg has unveiled dozens of precious Judaica items that were recently discovered during renovation of a former synagogue. The items were presented to the public Sunday and were hidden before the Holocaust at what is now the new cultural center of Dambach-la-Ville, a town of 2,000 residents near Strasbourg in eastern France,…
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Fast Forward Virginia GOP Official Refuses to Apologize for Anti-Semitic Pope Joke
WASHINGTON — A GOP official in Virginia refused to apologize for an anti-Semitic joke, although the party’s candidate for governor called it inappropriate. “I did not tell an anti-Semitic joke,” John Whitbeck, the Republican Party’s chairman in its 10th Congressional District, in northern Virginia, told the Free Beacon on Wednesday. “I told a joke I…
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Fast Forward Synagogue in Ukraine Hometown of Late Lubavitcher Rebbe Schneerson Gets $100K Facelift
The Jewish community of Nikolayev in southern Ukraine, the hometown of the late leader of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, has renovated and rededicated its century-old synagogue. Hundreds of Jews attended the rededication ceremony earlier this month to celebrate the $100,000 renovation which gave the structure marble floors, Jerusalem-stone panels and air conditioning, the synagogue’s…
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Fast Forward Belgium Teachers Urged To Compare Israel to Nazi Germany
A Belgian Education Ministry website offered teachers comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, a newspaper in Antwerp reported. The comparisons were available until recently on the KlasCement.be website, a major teaching resource offered to teachers in training by the Education Ministry of the Flemish Region, one of three entities that make up the federal Belgian…
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Fast Forward Denmark Party Wants To Ban Circumcision
A left-wing Danish political party is seeking to outlaw ritual circumcision in Denmark. The Social Liberal Party, a small coalition partner of Denmark’s ruling Social Democrats party, adopted the anti-circumcision stance this week following an internal vote by delegates during a party congress in Nyborg, 75 miles west of Copenhagen, according to the news site…
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Fast Forward San Diego State Professor Replaces Israel With ‘Palestine’ on Map
An Arabic-language professor at San Diego State University handed out a map of the Middle East which identified Israel as “Palestine.” The map handed out by lecturer Ghassan Zakaria on the second day of classes earlier this month was meant to highlight Arabic-speaking countries, according to the student newspaper The Daily Aztec. Following complaints from…
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Fast Forward Australian Chabad Yeshiva Guard Found Guilty of Raping Boy
A former security guard at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne was convicted of child rape and molestation. David Cyprys, 44, was a contract worker for Yeshivah College, a Chabad-run boys’ school, when he abused nine boys in the 1980s and early 1990s. A jury at the County Court of Victoria found him guilty last…
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