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News Actress Honored for Role in Hasidic-Themed Film
Israeli actress Hadas Yaron has won the 69th Venice Film Festival’s award for best actress. Yaron received the award Saturday for her role in haredi Orthodox Israeli director Rama Burshtein’s film “Lemale et Ha’chalal” (Fill the Void), a family story set in Tel Aviv’s Hasidic community. Yaron plays Shira, an 18-year-old girl set to enter…
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Fast Forward Five Jewish Teens Arrested for Jerusalem Attack
Jerusalem Police arrested five Jewish teens in connection with an attack on an Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem, which left the victim with a broken leg. The arrests on Saturday night came two days after Ibrahim Abu Taha, 28, was attacked in downtown Jerusalem. The victim and a Jewish co-worker had walked a female Jewish…
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Fast Forward Berlin Circumcision Move Not Enough: AJC
The American Jewish Committee condemned a decision earlier this week by the state of Berlin that places restrictions on circumcisions. The decision affirmed the legality of circumcisions but placed limitations on who could carry them out. It said that only doctors, and not mohels, could perform circumcisions. The state also required that parents be informed…
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News GOP Lawmaker Apologizes for Holocaust Reference
A Maryland congressman apologized for referring to the Holocaust as he discussed his opposition to the federal involvement in providing student loans. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) apologized Thursday for the remarks, which drew criticism. “While explaining my position on an important Constitutional issue I regrettably used an extreme example as a comparison that was ill-advised…
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Fast Forward Chabad Buys Manhattan Building for $42M
Chabad has purchased a building in midtown Manhattan for $42 million. In its announcement, Chabad said it had been renting the 12-story, 60,000-sq.-ft. building at 509 Fifth Avenue for the past 16 years before it bought it on Thursday. The building has a synagogue, offers programming and oversees the activities of seven Chabad centers in…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Hits N.J. Town
Police are investigating a graffiti attack in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey as a hate crime. A dozen swastikas were painted on mailboxes, street signs, roads and personal property in Manalapan, N.J., the N.J. Jewish News reported. The phrase “Kill the Jews” was also found amid the graffitti discovered Thursday morning. “The people…
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Fast Forward Help Needed To Build Montenegro Synagogue
Two Jewish organizational leaders asked Montenegro’s president to help the Balkan country’s small Jewish community build a synagogue. The issue was raised last week during a visit to Montenegro by Vadim Rabinovich and Joel Rubinfeld, both chairmen of the recently established European Jewish Parliament. Montenegro, an area of the former Yugoslavia that became independent in…
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Fast Forward Jews Want Perjorative Out of Spanish Dictionary
The representative body of Spain’s Jewish community has renewed efforts to have a pejorative word connected to Jews scrapped from the country’s official dictionary. Isaac Querub, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), recently wrote to the Royal Spanish Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language, to remove the word…
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