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Fast Forward Agency Funding Conference Calls for New Models
Delegates to the Jewish People Policy Institute conference proposed a new model for Jewish communal fundraising and stressed the importance of cooperation between Israel and Diaspora Jewish communities. At a conference session on how the global Jewish community spends its funds, former CBS executive and Fox News founder Mark Pearlman suggested that the community shift…
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Fast Forward South Africa’s Ruling Party Calls for Israel Boycott
Leaders of South Africa’s ruling party declared their support for a boycott of Israel. Several anti-Israeli declarations were made in Pretoria this week during the 3rd International Solidarity Conference, organized by the African National Congress. More than 1,000 delegates, from South Africa and around the world, participated in the ANC conference held Oct. 25 to…
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Fast Forward Sandy Strikes Heart of Jewish Community
Less than a year into her job at North Shore Synagogue in Syosset, N.Y., Rabbi Debbie Bravo sounded remarkably poised as she and her community face one of their most powerful challenges together: Hurricane Sandy. Bravo’s land line was dead. When she picked up her cell phone Tuesday, she had just returned from the local…
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Fast Forward Irish TV Personality Calls Israel ‘Cancer’
A popular Irish broadcaster and columnist said he is not anti-Semitic, after calling Israel “the cancer in foreign affairs” during a broadcast. “Israel is the cancer in foreign affairs. It polarizes the Islamic community of the world against the rest of the world,” Vincent Browne said last week on his TV3 channel show, Tonight with…
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Fast Forward European Jews Worry About Ukraine Extremists
The head of the European Jewish Association has called on the Ukrainian government to ensure the safety of the country’s Jews in the wake of the election to parliament of an anti-Semitic party. “We are not presuming of course, to interfere in internal Ukraine affairs and its voters’ decisions, however we are very concerned about…
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Fast Forward Many Turned to Social Media as Sandy Struck
At 10 p.m. on Monday, as the full brunt of Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the northeastern United States, filmmaker Sandi Dubowski posted an urgent online message. Dubowski’s elderly parents had declined to leave their home in Manhattan Beach, a neighborhood of southern Brooklyn that sits on a small peninsula flanked by the Atlantic…
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Fast Forward Sandy Curtails Air Travel From Israel to U.S.
Flights between Israel and the United States continue to be delayed as superstorm Sandy continues to batter America’s northeast coast. Thousands of Israeli airline passengers had their flights to the United States canceled on Monday and Tuesday. Israelis trying to get home remained stranded in New York, New Jersey and the D.C. area as well….
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Pushes Anti-African Crackdown
Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai has asked the country’s prime minister and justice minister to order the detention of migrants from Sudan. Yishai made the request in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Oct. 28, despite the fact that Israel’s state prosecutor said in a court filing last week that the government has…
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