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Fast Forward National Council of Jewish Women Calls on Israel To Sanction Civil Marriage and Divorce
The National Council of Jewish Women called on the Jewish state to create a system of civil marriage and divorce in what was seen as a landmark move. “The monopoly of authority given to Orthodox rabbinical courts in Israel regarding issues of personal status, particularly marriage, weakens rather than strengthens the state itself by causing…
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Culture How Israel’s Fledgling Air Force Took Flight in Independence Fight
Some 65 years after a band of foreign volunteers took to the skies to ensure Israel’s birth and survival, filmmakers are racing to bring their exploits to the screen before the last of the breed passes away. Among the competing producers and their financial backers are such famous names as Spielberg and Lansky. And though…
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Fast Forward Israel Closes Gaza Crossing for Goods After Rockets Fired Into Negev
Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza to the passage of goods after three rockets were fired at southern Israel from the coastal strip. One rocket fired from Gaza struck southern Israel on Sunday night as the national ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day was taking place at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The rocket…
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Fast Forward Poland Has One Month Supply of Kosher Meat Left
Poland’s Jewish community has about a one month supply of kosher meat left, following a ban on ritual slaughter that went into effect at the beginning of the year. Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, confirmed to JTA on Monday from Warsaw that Poland will run out of kosher…
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Fast Forward Global Anti-Semitism Increased by 30% in 2012
Global anti-Semitism increased by 30 percent in 2012 over the previous year, an annual report found. Following two years of decline, there was a “considerable escalation” in the level of violent acts and vandalism against Jews in 2012, according to the global anti-Semitism report for 2012 presented Sunday by the Kantor Center for the Study…
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Fast Forward Riots Continue in West Bank Over Palestinian Prisoner Cancer Death
Palestinian riots continued over the weekend in several areas of the West Bank in the wake of the cancer death of a Palestinian prisoner. Palestinians clashed with Israel Defense Forces soldiers Saturday in the Gush Etzion area, also throwing rocks and firebombs at local Jewish settlements. Also on Saturday, Israeli soldiers prevented Palestinians from igniting…
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Fast Forward Facebook Removes Anti-Semitic Page With Graphic Holocaust Images
Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline “Lazy Jews.” In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlick, Facebook’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the Jewish memes page was…
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News Passover Kosher Meat Scandal in Los Angeles Latest in String of Mishaps
Less than a day before the start of Passover, the phone rang at the Brooklyn home of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. On the line were concerned members of the Rabbinical Council of California, a rabbinical association in Los Angeles that provides kosher certification, among other services. The RCC had just discovered that Mike Engelman, the owner…
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