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Fast Forward Conservative Group Sticks to Balanced Budget Claim Despite Bulging Deficit
Despite a budget deficit twice what was expected, the leader of the Conservative movement’s synagogue umbrella group says the group will balance its budget within two years. Rabbi Steven Wernick, the CEO of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism, told JTA that his organization was anticipating a budget hole of more than $1 million in…
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Fast Forward Georges Moustaki, ‘Wandering Jew’ Who Sang With Piaf, Recalled at Memorial
About 100 hundred people attended the opening of an art exhibition and a concert in Paris in memory of the Jewish French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki. The exhibition that opened Tuesday at the Borough Hall of the French capital’s 3rd Arrondissement was launched in the framework of the city’s ninth Festival of Jewish Culture. Carrying a…
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News Jewish Beer Company Grows Fast
With the creation of David’s Slingshot Hoppy Summer Lager, beer maker Jeremy Cowan is evoking the image of the legendary battle between David and Goliath — a match-up that’s also apt for Cowan himself. Though still a small player in the world of craft beers, Cowan is catapulting himself onto a much larger field. After…
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Fast Forward Sweden Hosts First Jewish Gay Wedding
The Great Synagogue of Stockholm hosted Sweden’s first Jewish gay wedding. The couple, two men who had been living together for the past 28 years, was wed at the synagogue on Sunday at a ceremony conducted by Rabbi David Lazar and attended by some 50 people. “They only invited close friends because it was their…
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Fast Forward Samantha Power ‘Cares Deeply’ About Israel, Says Michael Oren
Samantha Power, President Obama’s nominee for United Nations envoy, cares deeply about Israel’s security needs, the Israeli ambassador to Washington said. “Samantha Power and I have worked closely over the last four years on issues vital to Israel’s security,” Michael Oren told The New York Times on Friday. “She thoroughly understands those issues and cares…
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Fast Forward Fire Bombing of Two Kosher Restaurants Not Motivated by Anti-Semitism
Montreal’s Jewish federation says there is no evidence that fire bomb attacks on two kosher restaurants and a private home in a heavily Jewish suburb over three days are anti-Semitic in nature. “There is absolutely no evidence” that the firebombing of Café Shalom on Friday, a private home on Saturday, and Chops Resto Bar early…
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Food Budapest Jews Plan World’s Largest Kosher Sandwich
Organizers of a Jewish festival in Budapest said they will try to set a world record for the tallest kosher sandwich. Many dozens of bread slices will be used to construct the tower on Sunday on Kazinczy Street in the Hungarian capital’s so-called Jewish Quarter during the sixth Judafest cultural street party, organizers said on…
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Fast Forward Richard Falk, U.N. Rapporteur on Palestinian Rights, Calls for Close of UN Watch
Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to shut down the watchdog organization UN Watch. In an annual report on Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights due to be presented to the Human Rights Council on Monday, Falk seeks an investigation of UN Watch…
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