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Fast Forward Nathan Englander Wins Short Story Prize
American-Jewish author Nathan Englander has been awarded the 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for his short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Englander beat out authors Etgar Keret, Sarah Hall and Kevin Barry for the 25,000 euro prize, which is one of the biggest prizes granted for…
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Fast Forward Boycott of West Bank Products Is Legal: Expert
European governments are fully within their legal rights to boycott products made by Jews in the West Bank, a British legal expert has concluded. The 60-page opinion by James Crawford, a professor of international law at Cambridge University in Britain, has been shown to senior officials of EU member states in the past few months,…
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Food Dutch Lawmaker Resigns Over Ritual Slaughter
A Dutch lawmaker resigned from his party in protest of its support for banning ritual slaughter, among other issues. Wim Kortenoeven announced his resignation from the Party for Freedom at a news conference last week in The Hague. Founded in 2005 by Geert Wilders, the party follows an anti-Muslim, pro-Israel policy. “Regarding ritual slaughter, I…
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Fast Forward Bibi May Free Prisoners To Win Abbas Meeting
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are negotiating over Israeli moves that would pave the way for a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. According to two Israeli sources and two Western diplomats, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, Netanyahu has expressed willingness to…
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Food Instant Heart Attack Sandwich Wins in Court
Warm up the defibrillator, the Instant Heart Attack Sandwich has life at New York’s 2nd Avenue Deli. A U.S. District Court Judge in Manhattan ruled late last week that the sandwich cannot be confused with the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas and thus the deli can keep the sandwich — two latkes stuffed with…
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Fast Forward Hitler Wanted To Spare Jewish WWI Veteran
Adolf Hitler ordered that the Jewish commander of his army unit during World War I not be persecuted or deported, a German-Jewish publication reported. Susanne Mauss, editor of the Jewish Voice from Germany, found an August 1940 note of the Gestapo ordering that Ernst Hess, a former judge, not be persecuted or deported following an…
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Fast Forward Calif. Teens Win Diller Tikkun Olam Awards
Five California teenagers won Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards for their innovative social action projects. Each will receive an honorarium of $36,000 toward the project or the recipient’s future education. The winners are Zak Kukoff , 17, for his Autism Ambassadors, a national non-profit that empowers teens to teach and better understand their special-needs classmates;…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Jews Win Permission To Immigrate
Israel’s government agreed to expedite the arrival of the final Ethiopian immigrants waiting to come to Israel. Under the plan approved Sunday by the Cabinet, some 2,200 Falash Mura – Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity – will be brought to Israel by March 2014. The Ethiopians are waiting in a refugee camp…
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