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Fast Forward State Department Launches Anti-Semitism Training
The Obama administration launched training for its diplomats to identify and combat anti-Semitism. Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for human rights, told the B’nai B’rith International policy conference in suburban Washington on Monday that the program had been launched by Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. special envoy on anti-Semitism, whose term is ending next…
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Fast Forward Chaos Means No Sinai Lulavs for Sukkot
Israel likely will not have palm fronds from the Sinai for this year’s Sukkot lulavs. Terror in the Sinai and a lack of communication between Israeli and Egyptian agricultural agencies are the reasons that the palm fronds will not be imported, Israel National News reported Monday. They are grown in the Sinai’s al-Arish area, located…
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News Eli Zborowski, Founder of Yad Vashem Society, Dies
Eli Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who founded and served as the chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, has died. Zborowski, who founded the society in 1981 and served as its chairman until his death, died Monday in New York. He was 87. Zborowski was born in Zarki, Poland. He was able to leave…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Aim To Ease Hardship Amid Protests
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad announced measures to ease economic hardship following stepped up Palestinian protests in the West Bank. Fayad on Tuesday announced that the value added tax will be reduced by two percent to 15 percent and he lowered prices on diesel, gas and kerosene, following a meeting with ministers to discuss…
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Fast Forward Hiroshima Survivors Protest Nukes in Jerusalem
Survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Japan protested in Jerusalem against nuclear weapons. The survivors visited holy sites, including the Western Wall, on Monday, calling for the end of nuclear weapons, The Associated Press reported. They held signs in Japanese that read, “Nuclear Abolition.” “Any use of the atom [bomb] should be forbidden, even…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Chair Named to Auschwitz Council
The chairman of Yad Vashem has been appointed the deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. The appointment of Avner Shalev by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was announced by Yad Vashem on Tuesday. The International Auschwitz Council was established by Poland in 2000. It is an advisory body to the prime minister on issued…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency’s Web Site Is Hacked
The Jewish Agency’s website was attacked by unknown hackers. The wave of attacks began Sept. 7 and continued through the weekend, the organization said in a statement released Tuesday. The attacks, which made the web site temporarily unavailable for short times, came from across the globe, including Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Austria, according…
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Fast Forward Conservative Rabbis Back Circumcision Consent Form
A Conservative rabbinic group is supporting a proposed New York City Board of Health measure that requires parental consent for a controversial circumcision practice, while an Orthodox group opposes the regulation. The health department is scheduled to vote this week on a measure that would require parental consent if a mohel wants to obtain a…
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