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Fast Forward French Town To Open Museum Dedicated To Righteous Gentiles
A French town where dozens of residents saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust will open a museum to commemorate the rescuers’ actions. The Memory of Chambon museum is scheduled to open its doors on June 5 in Chambon-sur-Lignon, 70 miles south of Lyon in southern France, according to the French news agency AFP. The…
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Fast Forward Israel To Allow Non-Orthodox Rabbis To Serve in State-Funded Positions for First Time
Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services will, for the first time, allow non-Orthodox rabbis to serve in communal positions with state-funded salaries. The announcement on Thursday of the intention to change current policy follows a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court filed in January by the Reform and Conservative movements arguing that it was discriminatory for…
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Fast Forward Ahead of Winter Olympics, Russian Host Town Receives New Torah and Renovates Shul
The synagogue in Sochi in Russia has been renovated and received a new Torah scroll ahead of the city’s hosting of the Winter Olympics next year. Rabbi Ari Edelkopf, director of the Jewish Community of Sochi, told JTA the renovation was completed this month and “will help our synagogue serve not only thousands of local…
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Culture Israel Museum Returns Nazi-Looted Impressionist Painting to Heir of Owner
The Israel Museum returned a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of its original owner, then repurchased the artwork. The Impressionist painting “Garden in Wannsee” by the German-Jewish artist Max Liebermann was returned to an heir of Max Cassirer, a wealthy Berlin businessman and scion of a renowned family of art dealers, the museum said in…
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News Endless Jewish Possibilities of Google Glass
Over the past few weeks, strangers have begun stopping high school computer science teacher Chaim Cohen on the street. A few accuse him of recording them without their knowledge. Even fewer blame him for all of society’s ills. But many just want an answer to a simple question: Is he wearing Google Glass? Cohen is…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Feted in Belarus Hometown
The Belarus hometown of Shimon Peres marked the Israeli president’s upcoming 90th birthday. Among those on hand for the celebrations Wednesday in Vishnyeva was Peres’ oldest daughter, Tzvia. She was named for her father’s grandfather, Tzvi Meltzer, who was killed in the town by the Nazis. The events marking the landmark birthday, Aug. 2, included…
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Fast Forward Alice Walker Asks Alicia Keys To Scrap Israel Show and Join Cultural Boycott
Novelist Alice Walker, who is slated to speak at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y, called on singer Alicia Keys to boycott Israel and cancel a scheduled concert there. In an open letter posted on her website, Walker wrote, “It would grieve me to know you are putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Object to Budapest Street Name for Anti-Semitic Author
Amid a string of anti-Semitic incidents in Hungary, the umbrella organization of Hungarian Jews has protested the naming of a Budapest street after an anti-Semitic author. “The Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary is shocked to learn of the renaming of a street in the Second District after Cecile Tormay,” read a statement sent on…
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