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Fast Forward Y.U. Chancellor Norman Lamm Steps Down After Admitting Failure on Sex Abuse
In a letter announcing his resignation, Yeshiva University’s chancellor, Rabbi Norman Lamm, acknowledged his failure to respond adequately to allegations of sexual abuse against Y.U. rabbis in the 1980s. Lamm, now 85, became the school’s third president and head of its rabbinic school, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, in 1976. He stepped down as…
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Fast Forward Shylock-for-‘Jew’ Crossword Clue Spurs Apology Over Money-Grubber Trope
A major newspaper company has apologized for using Shylock as a clue for the answer “Jew” in a nationally syndicated crossword puzzle after the Anti-Defamation League said it was insensitive. Tribune Media Syndicate, which provides content to 4,000 outlets and reaches 10 million readers, said in its apology that appeared in newspapers on Sunday that…
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Fast Forward As Thousands in Egypt Protest, Israel Stays Mum
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians in protests across the country called on President Mohamed Morsi to step down. On the first anniversary of Morsi’s inauguration, anti-government demonstrators on Sunday evening in Cairo reportedly set the national headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood party on fire with fire bombs. Morsi reportedly was transferred from the presidential…
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Fast Forward 10 Teens Win $36K Diller Tikkun Olam Award
Ten U.S. teens were recognized for their volunteerism with Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards. Each will receive an honorarium of $36,000 “in recognition of their leadership, innovation and commitment to making the world a better place,” the Helen Diller Family Foundation said in its announcement. It is the seventh year for the Diller Teen Tikkun…
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Fast Forward Jewish Ex-Interior Minister To Be Investigated in Buenos Aires Bombing
The Jewish ex-interior minister of Argentina will be investigated for his ties to the AMIA Jewish center bombing. The Buenos Aires Federal Appeals Court last week ordered the probe of Carlos Vladimir Corach in connection with an illegal payment of $400,000 to Carlos Telleldin, an auto mechanic who was among those charged in the 1994…
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Fast Forward 170 Eritrean Migrants in Israeli Detention Center Protest With Hunger Strike
Some 170 African migrants being held in an Israeli detention center are continuing a hunger strike. Police on Sunday were working to end the hunger strike at the Saharonim detention facility in the Negev desert, the Times of Israel reported. The migrants from Eritrea are among 300 imprisoned migrants who began the hunger strike eight…
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Fast Forward Three Kids Injured in Lightning Strike at Reform Summer Camp
Three children attending the Goldman Union Camp Institute were injured when lightning struck the field in which they were holding a camp activity. One of the children reportedly is in critical but stable condition from the Saturday afternoon lightning strike on the Reform movement camp located in Zionville, Ind. near Indianapolis. The three injured children…
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Fast Forward Medical Marijuana Gets Blessing of Orthodox Rabbi — But Don’t Get High
An Israeli Orthodox rabbi ruled that distributing and smoking medicinal marijuana are kosher, but using weed for fun was “forbidden.” Efraim Zalmanovich, the rabbi of Mazkeret Batia, a town south of Tel Aviv, made the distinction in a recent halakhic ruling, NRG, the news site of the Maariv daily reported on Friday. Leading rabbis frequently…
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