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Fast Forward Limmud Launches Program for Educators
Limmud programs across the United States are collaborating to create a new partnership for learning and professional development with Jewish education leaders across the continent. Limmud, Anglo-Jewry’s flagship learning program, makes Jewish learning accessible to Jews around the world with its conferences that are gatherings for diverse Jews and educators. The Limmud North America Community…
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Food Kosher BBQ: Are We in Kansas Anymore?
If you salivate at the thought of kosher barbecue and grill, now’s a great time to be alive — and to consume things that aren’t. The Jewish community of Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, recently got their Midwestern neighbors scratching their heads with the community’s first annual Kosher Q, held on Sunday Aug….
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Fast Forward Historic Torah Scrolls Unearthed in Polish Town
Two Torah scrolls, one complete and one incomplete, were found in Poland’s Sokolow Podlaski district. The Torah scrolls found Aug. 20 are believed to have belonged to a synagogue in nearby Wegrow. A local policeman brought the scrolls to the municipal offices in Sokolow and gave them to Marcin Pasik, Sokolow Commune Head. “The policeman…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi of Lyon Threatened for ‘Complaints’
The chief rabbi of Lyon, Richard Wertenschlag, has received a letter threatening to “punish a Jew for every complaint the Jews make on TV.” The threat came in a two-page letter delivered to Wertenschlag on Aug. 10. It contained two photos of a concentration camp, according to Dr. Richard Prasquier, president of the Representative Council…
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Fast Forward S. Africa Requires ‘Made in West Bank’ Label
South Africa has adopted a regulation to prevent the labeling of goods from the West Bank as being produced in Israel. Government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi announced Wednesday that goods produced in the West Bank should now be labeled as originating from the ”Israeli Occupied Territories.” Manyi said that the proposal was adopted to prevent consumers…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem’s Holy Sites Need Protection: Abbas
Jerusalem’s identity is Arab, and the city’s Muslim and Christian holy sites must be protected from Israeli threats, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said. Abbas also said that Israeli authorities want to build a Jewish Temple on the site of the al-Aksa mosque and Dome of the Rock, in a statement issued Tuesday on the…
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Fast Forward Australian School Says Sorry for Sex Abuse
The Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne embroiled in a child sex abuse scandal apologized “unreservedly” to the victims. The apology, issued Monday in a letter from the head of the Yeshivah College and the head of the Yeshivah Center, which houses the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Melbourne, said: “We understand and appreciate that there are…
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Fast Forward Hungary Won’t Charge Anti-Semitic Soccer Fans
Hungary’s government has condemned anti-Semitic chants by soccer fans at a recent match in Budapest, but signaled it would not prosecute them. An announcement placed on Tuesday on the website of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban said that the government “condemns in the strongest possible terms the insulting behavior of certain Hungarian football fans during…
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