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Fast Forward Hungary Plans Synagogue Amid Rise of Anti-Semitic ‘Jewish List’ Jobbik Party
The Jewish community of Budapest has announced plans to build a new synagogue for the first time in 80 years. The foundation stone for the new synagogue in Budapest’s Csepel district is scheduled to be laid in a ceremony on Sunday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, attended by leaders of Hungary’s Jewish community and senior government…
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Fast Forward New Zealand’s Jewish Prime Minister John Key Leads Holocaust Remembrance
New Zealand’s prime minister, whose Jewish mother escaped Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, launched an exhibition to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. John Key officially opened “Shadows of the Shoah” in Auckland Jan. 25 in front of Holocaust survivors and Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand, Shemi Tzur. Key, who rarely talks about his…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Back New White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
President Obama named as his new chief of staff a security official, Denis McDonough, who has strong ties to the Jewish organizational community. McDonough, until now the deputy to National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, handled much of the National Security Council’s Israel-related traffic and has strong ties with Jewish groups, speaking for instance to the…
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Fast Forward Brazilian Neo-Nazi Gets 3 Years For Baring Swastika Tattoo at Jewish Students
A Brazilian judge sentenced a man to 35 months in jail for giving Jewish students a Nazi salute and exposing his swastika tattoo. Luciano Silva Barreto of Rio de Janeiro’s criminal court sentenced Luiz Vinicius Consenzo, 25, after convicting him of a racist crime, according to a Jan. 22 report by CONIB, the umbrella organization…
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Fast Forward Environmental Groups Push for Green Jewish Living on Tu B’Shvat
Two Jewish groups launched a joint initiative promoting environmentally friendly living on Tu Bishvat, Jewish arbor day. The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) and Canfei Nesharim, a group emphasizing sustainable living in the Orthodox community, said Friday they would collaborate on a range of initiatives raising environmental awareness within the Jewish community….
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Fast Forward Protestors Storm EU Soccer Body Over Matches in Israel
Dozens of activists occupied the reception of the UEFA European soccer association in Nyon, Switzerland, to protest Israel’s hosting of a championship. About 40 protesters carrying banners and placards, some critical of UEFA President Michel Platini, chanted slogans at the offices on Jan. 25, according to the Associated Press. The protesters had come to demonstrate…
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Fast Forward Dutch Stolen Art Committee Dismisses Family’s Holocaust Claims
A panel of experts advised the Dutch government to return only one painting out of 189 claimed by relatives of a Holocaust-era art collector. The Advisory Commission on Restitution Requests, Cultural Goods and World War II asserted that descendants of the art collector Nathan Katz and his brother, Benjamin, failed to prove that the brothers…
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Fast Forward ADL Calls on Conservatives To Keep Nazi Analogies Out of Gun Debate
The Anti-Defamation League called on conservatives to keep Nazi analogies out of the gun control debate. “The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and…
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