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Fast Forward 17th-Century French Sephardic Cemetery Restored
A municipality in southern France has begun renovating an ancient Sephardic cemetery. The first stage of the restoration of the 17th century cemetery in Bidache, 130 miles south of Bordeaux, began last week and will focus on a large arch built on the premises, the local daily Sud Ouest reported last week. The cemetery was…
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Fast Forward Spanish Towns Plan ‘Wedding’ for Sukkot
Two Spanish towns are preparing a Judaica festival featuring a mock wedding to celebrate their lost Jewish heritage. The event, co-organized by non-Jews from San Juan and Rio Jerte in the province Extremadura in northwestern Spain, will also include a Judaica market and songs on Sept. 28-29, according festival coordinator Antonio Gil. “This is a…
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Fast Forward Jews Urge Ukraine Clergy To Shun Neo-Nazis
The World Jewish Congress urged Ukrainian clergy to refrain from attending neo-Nazi events. “Moral authority” is necessary to “prevent any further rehabilitation of Nazism or the SS,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder wrote in a letter Thursday to the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Filaret. In his letter, Lauder referenced a recent…
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Fast Forward Dutch City Pledges $734K To Restore Synagogue
A city in eastern Holland has pledged nearly $750,000 for restoring a museum to its previous function as a synagogue. The switch will become possible in 2015, when the natural science museum in Nijmegen leaves its current building, the Dutch regional daily De Gelderlander reported Thursday. Jem van den Burg, the head of a nonprofit…
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Fast Forward Richard Nixon Says Jews Should Be ‘Americans First’ on Last Tapes
President Richard Nixon is heard in the last set of his White House tapes making anti-Semitic statements in discussions with visitors to the Oval Office and by telephone. The 340 hours of tapes, which cover from April 9, 1973 to July 12, 1973, were released Wednesday by the Nixon Presidential Library. They are the last…
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Fast Forward Dutch Prince’s Ski Death Nixes Yom Kippur Fete
A farewell party for former Queen Beatrix scheduled on Yom Kippur was canceled due to the death of her son. The Dutch Royal House postponed the Sept. 14 gala until early next year, according to a report Thursday by the NRC Handelsblad daily. Prince Johan Friso, 44, died Aug. 12 as a result of injuries…
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Fast Forward New Zealand Jews Slam Sale of Nazi Mementos
Jewish students in the New Zealand coastal city of Dunedin condemned a sale of Nazi memorabilia, calling it a “slap in the face” to the local and national Jewish community. “The decision to run this auction shows a lack of taste and sensitivity to those who lived through these atrocities and their families,” Ben Isaacs,…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Calls Ukraine Cross ‘Provocation’ to Breslov Hasidic Pilgrims
The recent placing of a crucifix near the Uman grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was an act of “clear provocation,” Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, chief rabbi of Ukraine, said. “Ukraine is not a Jewish country and Ukrainian Jews respect Christian symbols like crosses,” Bleich told the Jewish Ukrainian news site Еvreiskiy.kiev.ua. “However, the cross raised…
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