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Fast Forward More Than 1,000 Attend Funeral For Parkland Shooting Victim Meadow Pollack
(JTA) — More than 1,000 mourners gathered at a Parkland, Florida synagogue for the funeral of Meadow Pollack, one of the 17 students and staff killed in Wednesday’s school shooting. “You killed my kid. ‘My kid is dead’ goes through my head all day and all night. I keep hearing it over and over,” her…
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Fast Forward 10 Jewish Groups Call On Census To Drop Citizenship Question
WASHINGTON (JTA0 — Ten Jewish organizations urged the Trump administration not to reinstate a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census, saying it will raise fears among immigrants. The next census will be the first since 1960 that asks respondents whether they are citizens. The Trump administration has said the question will facilitate administration of…
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Fast Forward Cleveland Jewish Federation Chief To Retire After 35 Years
(JTA) — Stephen Hoffman, who has led Cleveland’s Jewish federation for almost 35 years and regularly lands on lists of the most influential and highest paid federation executives, is retiring. Hoffman will retire on Dec. 31. A search for a successor is underway. Last year the umbrella philanthropy raised more than $32.7 million in its…
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Fast Forward Jacqueline Kent Cooke Says She Broke Finger In Purse-Swinging Scuffle With Jewish Lawyer
(JTA) — During her trial for assault, a socialite who is accused of hitting a lawyer with and making an anti-Semitic remark said she sustained serious injuries in the incident. Jacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late billionaire Jack Kent Cooke, on Thursday appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, where prosecutors said they were seeking her…
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Fast Forward Israeli Seniors Get $5 Million For Subsidized Housing From New Jersey Charity
(JTA) — A New Jersey-based foundation is granting $5 million to a Jewish Agency for Israel initiative providing subsidized housing for senior citizens in Israel. The Wilf Family Foundation on Thursday announced the grant to the the Senior Affordable Housing Initiative, which is planning to build about 3,000 affordable housing units for seniors on 17 sites…
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Fast Forward Florida School Shooting Claims Jewish Victims — Community Plunged Into Mourning
(JTA) — The Jewish community in Parkland, Florida held a healing service after a mass shooting at a high school attended by many of the teenagers in the community. Rabbi Bradd Boxman of Kol Tikvah, a Reform congregation in the town inland from Boca Raton, said he knew of at least four Jewish high school…
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Fast Forward Survivors Of Brooklyn Hanukkah House Fire Released From Hospital
(JTA) — The surviving members of a Brooklyn family whose house burned down in a fire started by a Hanukkah menorah were released from the hospital. Yossi Azan and two of his children — daughter Shalit, 16, and son Daniel, 15 — were released from a local hospital this week, the Yeshiva World News reported….
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Fast Forward Conservative Rabbis Call On Israel To Admit Kenyan Convert
(JTA) — Conservative rabbis have called on Israel to allow a Kenyan convert to study at its yeshiva in Jerusalem. A visa application submitted by Yehudah Kimani last week was rejected by the country’s Interior Ministry. It is the second time that Kimani has been denied entrance to the country. “Kimani is a Jew, converted…
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