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Fast Forward Limmud Appoints New Executive Director, Chair
Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning conferences, has appointed a new director and a new chairperson. Shelley Marsh, currently director of informal education for the United Kingdom’s United Jewish Israel Appeal, will become Limmud’s executive director after Sukkot, according to a Limmud press release. She replaces Raymond Simonson, who will become CEO designate of…
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Fast Forward U.S. Warned European Governments Not to Support Palestinian State
The United States reportedly warned European governments in a memorandum not to support a Palestinian bid for increased status at the United Nations. The memorandum, which was seen by the British newspaper the Guardian, called giving the Palestinians enhanced non-member state status “extremely counterproductive” and threatened “significant negative consequences” for the Palestinian Authority, including financial…
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Fast Forward Chicago Congregants Walk Out of Services at Bachmann’s Mention
Congregants at a Chicago synagogue walked out of Yom Kippur services when the rabbi acknowledged the presence of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann. “I am aware of the fact that our congregation’s policy in regards to public officials clearly caused pain to some members of our community on the most precious day of reconciliation on the…
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Fast Forward Jean-Marie Le Pen: B’nai B’rith Brokered ‘Pact’ to Isolate My Party
The French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said that B’nai B’rith had signed a “pact” with other politicians to keep him out of the government. “The leader of the soft right signed a pact in which they vowed never to unite with Front National,” Le Pen, who founded the National Front party 40 years ago,…
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Fast Forward MLB Player Adam Greenberg Strikes Out Again
Adam Greenberg, a baseball player who was hit in the head by a pitch during his first major league at-bat for the Chicago Cubs in 2005, struck out in his second ever appearance in the major leagues. Pinch hitting for Miami Marlins left fielder Bryan Petersen on Tuesday, Greenberg struck out after facing three knuckleball…
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Fast Forward Museum Housing Sarajevo Haggadah To Close
The museum where the priceless, centuries-old Sarajevo Haggadah is kept is set to close its doors due to lack of funds. Jakob Finci, the longtime leader of the Jewish community in Sarajevo, told JTA that Sarajevo’s 125-year-old National Museum will close Oct. 4 due to “lack of money, financing and support from the State.” He…
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Fast Forward Report: Iranian Fears of Israeli Attack Led to Military Mishaps
Iranian fears of an Israeli airstrike on its nuclear facilities led its military to mistakenly fire on civilian airplanes and its own military aircraft, the New York Times reported. The 2007 and 2008 attacks, in which the civilian aircraft were fired on and intercepted by Iranian fighter jets, were documented in a classified U.S. intelligence…
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Fast Forward No Buyers for Goebbels’ Love Letters
Love letters and other writings by Nazi propaganda head Joseph Goebbels did not sell at a much-touted auction. The writings were offered Sept. 27 at the Connecticut auction house, Alexander Historical Auctions. Only one offer reportedly came in by telephone for the collection of Goebbels’ early writings, well below its opening price of $200,000. The…
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