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Fast Forward Camp Tawonga Saves Torah Scroll as Wildfire Rages
The largest wildfire in California’s history has led to the evacuation of a Jewish summer camp and destroyed at least one of its buildings, but a staffer managed to save a Holocaust-era Torah scroll. The Yosemite Rim Fire triggered the cancellation of Camp Tawonga’s annual Keshet LGBTQ Family Camp, San Francisco’s j. weekly reported. On…
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Fast Forward Oberlin Students Sought ‘Reaction’ From Anti-Semitic Acts
Two students committed a series of racial and anti-Semitic incidents at Oberlin College to provoke a reaction, according to police in the Ohio city. According to a police report released late last week, one of the students said he meant the acts as a “joke,” as well as to show how students and college staff…
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Fast Forward Y.U. Report Finds School Failed To Respond to Abuse
Incidents of physical and sexual abuse at Yeshiva University were not limited to its high school for boys, an investigation has found. An outside investigation commissioned by the university following reports of sexual abuse by two faculty members at Y.U.’s high school for boys in the 1970s and ‘80s confirmed that “multiple incidents of varying…
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Fast Forward Israeli Firm Builds Mall on Concentration Camp Site
An Israeli architectural firm defended its involvement in the planned construction of a shopping mall on a former concentration camp for Jews in Serbia. “We cannot be suspected in being insensitive to anything relating to the Holocaust,” Ami Moore of the MYS firm in Tel Aviv said in a statement sent to JTA. Moore was…
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Fast Forward 100,000 Expected at Hungary Jewish Festival
Amid fresh warnings of anti-Semitism in Hungary, some 100,000 Jews from across Europe are expected to attend Budapest’s largest-ever Jewish Summer Festival. The week-long cultural festival, which opened Saturday, is being hosted for the 16th year running by the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or MAZSIHISZ, and co-organized by the Israeli Jewish Congress. “Part of…
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Fast Forward Polish Torah Scroll Hidden in Monastery Since Holocaust, Returned
A Torah scroll that since 1942 has been hidden in a Tuchow monastery was returned to the synagogue in Dabrowa Tarnowska in southern Poland. The Torah was returned earlier this month but reported for the first time on Saturday. It had been brought to the monastery in Tuchow, approximately 60 miles from Krakow, by an…
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Fast Forward Quebec Plan Proposes Banning Kippot on Public Workers
A plan by Quebec’s government to ban “religious symbols,” including yarmulkes or kippot, among public sector workers has elicited worry from religious minorities in the Canadian province. The bill would seek to ban public employees from wearing large Christian crosses or religious headwear such as that worn by Sikhs, Muslims and Jews while at work….
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Fast Forward Abbas Prepared To Meet With Netanyahu Face To Face
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he is prepared to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to achieve peace. “There is nothing at all that prevents a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the right time for us to meet or at a time we need to meet,” Abbas said Saturday in…
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