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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva Teacher David Kramer Gets 3 Years for Australia Sex Abuse
David Kramer, a former teacher at the Yeshivah College day school in Melbourne, Australia, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting four students. Kramer, however, could leave prison after a little more than three months because he has been in prison while awaiting his sentence, according to Australian…
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Fast Forward European Rabbi Group Seeks To Create Mohels Union
A European rabbinical group has created a union of mohalim, or ritual circumcisers, in an effort to standardize ritual circumcision and combat attempts to ban it. Based on the model of Britain’s Initiation Society, the Union of Mohalim in Europe seeks to “unite approved mohalim across Europe under a single banner, ensuring that all communities…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes Releases Names of 46 Orthodox Abusers
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes released the names of 46 child sex offenders from the New York borough’s Orthodox community. Hynes, who has been investigating sex crimes in the community for four years, released the names in a policy shift, according to the New York Post. Previously, Hynes had felt that releasing the names could…
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Fast Forward 92Y Chief Sol Adler Fired Over Affair
The longtime executive director of New York’s 92nd Street Y, Sol Adler, was fired after revelations that he had a long-term affair with an assistant. Adler, according to the New York Daily News, had an extramarital affair with Catherine Marto, the Manhattan Jewish community center’s liaison for board and donor relations. Marto also was fired…
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Fast Forward Britain’s Royal Baby Arrives at Jewish Hospital Wing
When Kate Middleton gave birth to a baby boy after being rushed to the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital, anxious to avoid hundreds of paparazzi camping outside. She almost certainly missed the little plaque at the entrance, which pays tribute to the anonymous donor “who was not unmindful of his neighbors’ needs” and who…
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Fast Forward Serbia Anti-Semitic Vandals Strike Jewish Cemetery
Serbian police suspect three minors are responsible for the desecration of 39 Jewish graves in the northern city of Subotica. The three youths are suspected of smashing 39 headstones on July 10 in the city’s Jewish cemetery, which is situated near the border with Hungary, the news site Subotica.com reported last week. The president of…
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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Will Lead Aliyah Flight From U.S.
Gilad Shalit will accompany a flight of new immigrants, including 106 children, leaving New York for Israel on Monday. The former captive soldier will be onboard the first chartered El Al aliyah flight of the summer, which will leave John F. Kennedy Airport with 231 new immigrants, including 41 families. A live feed of the…
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Fast Forward Lightning-Struck Camper Turns 13 in Hospital
Ethan Kadish, one of three campers struck by lightning at a Jewish camp in Indiana, marked his 13th birthday in a Cincinnati hospital. Kadish has been in the hospital since June 29, when lightning struck without warning at the Goldman Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, Ind., near Indianapolis. “This is never how we would have…
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