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Fast Forward Jewish Scouting Leaders Rejoice Over Decision To Include Gay Youth in Troops
Jewish scouting leaders say they are “overjoyed” after the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution lifting a ban on gay youth. A.J. Kreimer, the outgoing chairman of the Nation Jewish Committee on Scouting, said Friday the decision reached at the BSA’s national convention in Dallas on Thursday was “momentous.” “Anything we can do to…
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Fast Forward One Man’s Strange Path from N.Y. Jew to Hindu Honcho
In 1968, only six years after founding the AEPi chapter at his Long Island University campus, Steven Silberfein took one of the thousand names of the Hindu god Vishnu and became Sridhar Silberfein. A year later, the one-time Jewish fraternity brother escorted the Hindu teacher Swami Satchidananda to the stage at Woodstock to deliver an…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Media Watchdog Presses ’60 Minutes’ Complaint at CBS Annual Meeting
Representatives of a pro-Israel media watchdog took CBS to task at a shareholders meeting over a “60 Minutes” segment about the plight of Christians in the Holy Land. Activists from the Committe for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting, or CAMERA, “dominated” much of the annual meeting Thursday, according to a report in the Hollywood Reporter….
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum ‘May Not Reflect Real Facts’ Says Hungarian Lawmaker
A lawmaker for the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary said the Auschwitz death camp museum “may not reflect real facts.” Tamas Gaudi-Nagy made the statement on Thursday during a discussion in Parliament on a proposal to facilitate visits by teenagers or young adults to the former Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, where approximately one million…
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Fast Forward Julius Berman Insists He’s Not to Blame for Claims Conference Botched Probe
Julius Berman, the chairman of the Claims Conference board, insisted he is not to blame for botching an investigation into a 2001 letter exposing massive fraud at the Holocaust restitution organization. “Somebody dropped the ball. That’s this issue,” Berman, 77, said in a new interview. “My conscience is totally clean on the role I played.”…
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Fast Forward Does London Meat Cleaver Attack on British Soldier Pose Danger to Jews?
British Jews are no more at risk from terrorism than they were before the slaying of a British soldier by suspected terrorists, British Jewry’s security unit said. “For the Jewish community security, the primary lessons remain unchanged,” CST wrote Thursday on its website. “Rather than living in fear, we should be alert to the full…
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Fast Forward Vilnius Great Synagogue Restoration Project Taps Shimon Peres
The government of Lithuania asked Israeli President Shimon Peres to head the international advisory board for the restoration of the Vilnius Great Synagogue. “The [restoration] project is an important part of the effort to both preserve and restore Vilnius’ Jewish heritage, and I think that President Peres could bring valuable guidance and insight to our…
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Fast Forward Why Do Jews Intermarry at a Much Higher Rate Than Others?
Over the past half century, intermarriage has become increasingly common in the United States among all religions – but among Jews at a higher rate than any other. Why that is the case is one of the questions Naomi Schaefer Riley probes in her new book, “‘Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is…
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