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Fast Forward Rabbi Apologizes to Bar Mitzvah Boy Sam Horowitz for Slam
Rabbi David Wolpe has retracted elements of his previous screed against Sam Horowitz’s lavish bar mitzvah—but has stood by its substance. In a piece published in the Washington Post, Wolpe copped to penning his previous piece in a “white heat,” the type of anger that might cause a well-respected rabbi to “appear to insult a…
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Fast Forward Alvin Kushner, Detroit Leader, Dies at 87
Alvin Kushner, the former executive director of what is now the the JCRC of Metropolitan Detroit, has died. Kushner, who led what was formerly known as the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit from 1974 to 1988, died Monday. He was 87. His tenure with the Jewish Community Council, where he started in the 1960s,…
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Fast Forward Palestinians May Turn to International Bodies To Prevent Settlement Expansion
JERUSALEM — The Palestinians could turn to international bodies to prevent Israel from expanding settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian leader said. “We are saying very clearly that if Israel does not stop, then we have to move,” Hanan Ashrawi told reporters on Wednesday during a visit to Jewish settlements in…
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Fast Forward A New Tel Aviv Holocaust Monument Will Honor Gays Persecuted By Nazis
JERUSALEM — A monument to gays persecuted by the Nazis will be built in Tel Aviv. The monument, the first of its kind in Israel, will be constructed in Meir Park, near the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association Center in the central part of the city, Haaretz reported. It will include a concrete pink…
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Fast Forward Polio Virus Spreads From South To Northern Israel
A strain of the polio virus was found in waste water near Hadera, meaning that the virus has spread to the north of Israel. The discovery comes two weeks into a national vaccination project to innoculate all Israeli children ages nine and under with a weakened form of the live virus. The vaccination project, scheduled…
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Fast Forward JTS Receives a $2.67 Million Grant From the Avi Chai Foundation
NEW YORK — The Jewish Theological Seminary received a $2.67 million grant from the Avi Chai Foundation to implement its strategic plan at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. JTS announced the funding this week for a Davidson School plan that includes providing resources to U.S. Jewish day schools, educators and leaders in…
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Fast Forward Russia Hopes To Lure Jews to Far East Zone
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a program to offer financial incentives encouraging Russian expats to move to the former Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan. The program hopes to bring about 2,000 people back to what once was a Jewish ethnic enclave, The Jerusalem Post reported. Birobidzhan was established in 1934 by Joseph Stalin in…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian School Closes as Last Jews Leave Gondar
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky turned over the keys to the Jewish school of Gondar, Ethiopia, to the town’s mayor. Monday’s handover ceremony of the school, which was funded and maintained by the Jewish Agency, comes as the final flight of Ethiopian immigrants prepares to leave for Israel. Some 2,500 Ethiopian children awaiting their immigration…
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