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Fast Forward Greek Jews Step Up Fight Against Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn — and Win Results
Antonis Samaras stood in the pale morning light coming through the stained glass windows of the only Thessaloniki synagogue to survive World War II and vowed, “Never again.” For Greek Jews marking the 70th anniversary of the destruction of this city’s historic Jewish community, the Greek prime minister’s words were long awaited. So was his…
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Fast Forward 1936 Liverpool Synagogue Gets $100K Makeover
The city of Liverpool has announced plans to spend $100,000 on saving a 77-year-old synagogue. The Greenbank Synagogue in South Liverpool, which was built in 1936, was listed as being “at risk” in 2010, three years after the area’s Jewish community stopped using it, the Liverpool Echo reported, but the city hopes to secure its…
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Fast Forward Madeira Jews Hold First Seder in Centuries
Descendants of Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism centuries ago will attend the first seder in decades on the Portuguese island of Madeira off the coast of Africa. Thirteen Jews, some of them Bnei Anousim, the descendants of Portuguese Jews targeted for conversion during the Inquisition, will gather in Funchal, the capital of the archipelago on…
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Fast Forward Egypt Lifts Ban on Film About Jews
Egyptian authorities rescinded a ban on the screening of a documentary about Egyptian Jews. “Jews of Egypt” will be screened in theaters beginning March 27, director Amir Ramses said in a tweet. “We won the war against National Security. We got the permit,” Ramses said on Twitter and Facebook. The film had been banned earlier…
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Fast Forward Supermodel Kate Upton Says Yes to Prom Date With Los Angeles Jewish Teen
A Los Angeles day school student landed a prom date with supermodel Kate Upton. Jake Davidson released a YouTube video last week asking Upton to the prom at Milken Community High School in Bel Air, Calif. The video has garnered more than 1 million hits. Upton, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model for the…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Herschel Schacter Dies at 95
Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has died. Schacter, the first U.S. Army chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died Thursday. He was 95. Along with serving as chairman of the Presidents Conference from 1967 to 1969, he…
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Fast Forward Pink Floyd Frontman Roger Waters Takes Credit for Stevie Wonder’s Snub of IDF Gala
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters took partial credit for Stevie Wonder’s decision to pull out of performing at a Friends of Israel Defense Forces event. In an interview with Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian media outlet, Floyd said he was one of several dignitaries who wrote to Wonder in an effort to dissuade him from playing at…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Plans Work With Descendants of Italy’s Jews Who Were Forced to Convert
Rabbi Pinchas Punturello will begin work in southern Italy and Sicily to reach out to the Bnei Anousim, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism centuries ago. Punturello’s posting is a joint project of Shavei Israel, an Israel-based nonprofit that helps strengthen and recover Jewish identity, and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities….
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