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Fast Forward John Galliano Wins Hearing in $18M Suit on Firing Over Anti-Semitism
A French labor relations court agreed to hear designer John Galliano’s case against Christian Dior, which fired him for making anti-Semitic remarks. The decision to hear the case came in response to Galliano’s filing of an $18.7 million lawsuit against Dior. Monday’s hearing revealed that Galliano earned $7.7 million annually in several positions at Dior…
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Fast Forward French Jews Square Off in Gay Marriage Debate
Wide-eyed and smiley, Elay-Gabriel seems utterly unaffected by the French media’s sudden interest in him. A dozen French journalists have visited the 18-month-old in recent months because he is trapped in a sort of legal limbo: He cannot obtain citizenship because the state does not recognize children born to surrogates abroad as French, even if…
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Fast Forward Jewish Writer Tuvia Tenenbom In Hot Water for Nazi Salute
Israeli-born Jewish author Tuvia Tenenbom is in trouble in Germany for raising his arm in the Hitler salute, which is banned in the country. Tenenbom told the Magdeburg Volksstimme newspaper he had made the gesture toward a group of 900 neo-Nazis demonstrating there on Jan. 12 in order to provoke them. He was accompanied by…
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Fast Forward French Muslim Rapper Hit by Anti-Semitic Rants
Dozens of anti-Semitic messages were left on the Facebook page of the best-selling French rapper Booba, who vowed to “avenge the victims of the Holocaust.” The pledge featured in a new song titled “Master Yoda” by Booba, the stage name of 36-year-old Eli Yaffa, born in France to a Muslim father from Senegal. The song…
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Fast Forward Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Accused of Spying on Jewish Groups
The Venezuelan human rights group Espacio Anna Frank says its goal is to promote tolerance by teaching the life story of the teenage diarist murdered by the Nazis. But is there something sinister lurking behind the organization’s benevolent facade? SEBIN, the Venezuelan intelligence service, seems to believe so. According to a dossier attributed to SEBIN,…
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Fast Forward Rare Jewish Books by ‘Wild Things’ Author Maurice Sendak Sold at Auction
Two rare Jewish books illustrated by Maurice Sendak were sold at auction days before the posthumous publication of a new book by the author. At Swann Galleries in New York, “Good Shabbos, Everybody,” by Robert Garvey, sold for $1,440, and “Happy Hanukah Everybody,” by Hyman and Alice Chanover, sold for $1,920. The books were published…
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Fast Forward 75,000 Facebook Users Ask Ban of ‘F— Israel’ Page
A Facebook petition to remove an anti-Israel page that uses an expletive in its name has 75,000 likes, the removal campaign’s creator says. Michael Mendelson of Miami told JTA by telephone that the removal petition against the “Fuck Israel” page has been on Facebook for less than a week; the number of likes is as…
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Fast Forward Leaders of Jewish Reform Movement Plan Israel Advocacy Amid Tension
Dozens of Reform Jewish representatives attended an Israel advocacy seminar in Paris. The meeting organized by the European Union for Progressive Judaism came amid tension in the Reform community’s relationship with Israel. Some 40 delegates from 15 European countries heard lectures by AIPAC director Stephen Schneider; Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic…
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