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Fast Forward Aaron Panken Named President of Hebrew Union College
Rabbi Aaron Panken was elected president of The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion by its board of governors. HUC, the international university and seminary for Reform Judaism, made the announcement on Wednesday. Panken, 49, of Mamaroneck, N.Y., has taught rabbinic and Second Temple literature at HUC-JIR in New York since 1995. He has served…
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Fast Forward Ossie Schechtman, Jewish Basketball Star, Dies at 94
Ossie Schectman, who scored the first basket in the league that would become the NBA, has died. Schectman, a New York native who made the historic layup while playing for his hometown Knicks, died Tuesday. He was 94. The Knicks were playing the Toronto Huskies on Nov. 1, 1946 in the first game of the…
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Fast Forward Chabad ‘Synagogue-on-Wheels’ Heads to Siberia
Chabad activists have taken three synagogues on wheels on a journey into Siberia and central Russia. The activists, among them sons of emissaries to Russia for the Chabad movement, are driving three camper vehicles into the Russian outback along three different routes that will take them through dozens of cities over the next three weeks,…
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Fast Forward Maccabiah Games Close With Splash
The 19th Maccabiah Games came to a close in Jerusalem. The games closing ceremony, featuring some of Israel’s most popular and well known pop music groups, such as Balkan Beat Box and Infected Mushroom, took place Tuesday evening at Teddy Stadium. Speakers urged the athletes gathered at the stadium to watch the closing ceremonies to…
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Fast Forward 10 Most-Wanted Nazis Go Free in U.S.: Study
Video: Nate Lavey A review of U.S. Justice Department records shows that 10 alleged Nazi war criminals ordered deported remained in the United States because other countries would not take them. The review, carried out by the Associated Press and published this week, said that of 137 people targeted for deportation because of suspected war…
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Fast Forward New Chief Rabbi David Lau Makes Racist Remark About Basketball Players
David Lau, the recently elected chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Israel, was broadly condemned for a racist comment about basketball players at the Maccabiah Games. Exhorting his haredi Orthodox constituents to devote their time to learning Torah rather than watching basketball, Lau said on Tuesday, “Why do you care about whether the ‘kushim’ who get paid…
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Fast Forward ‘Pink Panther’ Heist of Jewish Diamond King Lev Leviev in Cannes Soars to $136M
The theft of diamonds and jewels owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev could be the largest jewelry heist in years after the worth of the stolen jewels was estimated at $136 million. A masked gunman stole the diamonds and jewels from an exhibition at a luxury resort in Cannes on Sunday afternoon. The thief threatened…
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Fast Forward Eric Burdon from Band The Animals To Play in Israel
Eric Burdon, lead singer of the popular ’60s band The Animals, said he will perform in Israel days after canceling a concert due to threatening emails. On Monday, after saying last week that he had canceled his Aug. 1 concert in Binyamina, the concert appeared on Burdon’s website. It also was posted on the website…
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