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Fast Forward Can Computers Break Codes of Cairo Genizah?
The Friedberg Genizah Project will use a high performance computer network at Tel Aviv University to break the codes of the Cairo Genizah. The project, announced on Sunday, will match up pieces of over 200,000 ancient manuscripts discovered more than 100 years ago in the Cairo Genizah. Most of the fragments of pages, documents and…
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Fast Forward Electric Car Company Better Place Files for Israel Bankruptcy
The electric car company Better Place, which had pledged to erect electric car charging stations throughout Israel, has filed for bankruptcy in an Israeli court. In a motion filed in Tel Aviv’s Central District Court on Sunday to dissolve the company, Better Place said it was looking for a temporary liquidator. The company, based in…
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Fast Forward Roger Cukierman Voted Head of French Jewish Group
Roger Cukierman has been elected the head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, or CRIF. It is the second time Cukierman, 76, has been elected to head the representative body of French Jewry. He also served as president of CRIF from 2001 to 2007. He succeeds Richard Prasquier, who has served for…
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News Deep in African Bush, Senegalese Tribe Claims Jewish Heritage
He will welcome you into his earthen-floor home, introduce you to his three wives, and let you sample their cooking. But Dougoutigo Fadiga does not want foreigners to come near the sacred tree of his village deep in the Senegalese bush. “The tree is holy grounds,” says Fadiga, president of this remote settlement of 4,000…
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News First Kosher Soup Kitchen Opens in Milan, Thanks to Chabad
Chabad in Milan is preparing to launch what is said to be the first kosher soup kitchen in Italy. Sponsored by the Milan branch of Chabad’s educational organization, Merkos l’Inyonei Chinuch, it is expected to begin operation at the end of the summer. The initiative will be a canteen providing free take-away meals to needy…
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Fast Forward Jewish Businessman Runs for French Overseas Seat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the campaign of Jewish businessman Meyer Habib for a seat in the French parliament. Habib is hoping to enter France’s National Assembly as the representative of French citizens living in Israel, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, the Vatican and San Marino. “I have known Meyer Habib for many years…
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Fast Forward Jews Reject New Church of Scotland Report on Israel
The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities said that, despite recent revisions, the Church of Scotland’s report on Israel remains “unacceptable.” The report, entitled “The Inheritance of Abraham,” was endorsed by the church’s general assembly Thursday in Edinburgh. It is a revision of an earlier text the church’s Church and Society Council published earlier this month…
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Fast Forward ‘Chief Rescue Officer’ for Canadian Jewish News Is No Longer at Post
The man tasked with rescuing the Canadian Jewish News is no longer in his post. In the wake of an announcement in April that the newspaper would cease publishing after 53 years, the CJN’s board of directors, responding to a public outcry, appointed philanthropist Marty Goldberg to the post of “chief rescue officer.” Goldberg, a…
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