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Fast Forward London Enclave Objects to Zoning Changes Proposed by Orthodox Jews
Non-Jewish residents of the heavily haredi Orthodox-populated London neighborhood of Hackney have launched a campaign to prevent Orthodox Jews from changing city planning regulations. A group named Hackney Planning Watch recently produced a flyer warning: “Your neighborhood is in danger! Want your neighbor to extend their home to cover the whole of their back garden?…
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Fast Forward Notorious Holocaust-Era Mass Rape and Murder Case Closed by Poland
A Polish governmental institute closed an investigation into the 1941 murder of 20 Jewish women in northeastern Poland, unable to name the victims or perpetrators. Prosecutors for the Institute of National Remembrance in Bialystok could not determine the names of the victims, nor did they discover the identities of six of the seven perpetrators who…
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Fast Forward Marking First Anniversary of Toulouse School Rampage
Israeli leaders marked the first year since an attack on a Jewish school in France that killed a rabbi and three children. Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, met Sunday in Jerusalem with the parents of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, who was killed in the attack on the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school…
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Fast Forward Greek Train Enthusiast Displays Rail Cars Used in Nazi Deportations of Jews
It was spring in northern Greece, 1943. Efthymios Kontopoulos, 13, had come to Thessaloniki for the day when he saw Nazis rounding up the city’s Jews. “My father brought me into town,” Kontopoulos, who is not Jewish, said. “We saw them being taken away. They were with their [yellow] badges.” On March 15, 1943, the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Summer Camps Ditch Cell Phones But Embrace Tech
At a Jewish summer camp in upstate New York, they’re giving kids digital filmmaking classes and telling them to leave their Nintendo Game Boys at home. In Georgia, a camp is encouraging face time with video pen pals rather than time on iPods. In Wisconsin, a camp has traded snail mail for scanned mail. As…
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Fast Forward British Labour Leader Ed Miliband Vows To Back Israel and Protect Jewish Rites
Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, has pledged to oppose boycotts of Israel and to protect Jewish customs, including circumcision and ritual slaughter. Speaking Thursday before a crowd of 300 at an event organized by Britain’s main Jewish umbrella group, the leader of the British opposition, who is Jewish, warned of the need…
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Fast Forward Appeals Court To Reconsider Jerusalem Passport Case
A U.S. court of appeals will again hear arguments on whether Americans born in Jerusalem can have “Israel” listed as their birthplace in their passports. Nathan Lewin, the lawyer who last year won a Supreme Court decision requiring lower courts to resolve the issue, this week said that new hearings will begin on March 19…
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The Schmooze Slovak Shul To Become Art Gallery
The Jewish community of Zilina in Slovakia will rent out one of its former synagogues to artists who plan to turn it into a gallery. The community will charge the artists a “symbolic fee,” according to a report on Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s public radio broadcaster. The building, originally called the Neolog Synagogue, was designed in…
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