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Fast Forward Chicago Chabad House Avoids Foreclosure
A Chicago Chabad House avoided foreclosure by filing for bankruptcy. The brownstone housing the Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park was to have gone on the auction block Wednesday, but the bankruptcy filing this week gave Chabad additional time to repay a bank loan, the Chicago Tribune reported. The group has…
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Fast Forward Jews Ask Gunter Grass To Skip Synagogue Visit
Gunter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning poet banned from entering Israel, is being asked not to visit the Gdansk syangogue. Grass, 85, will arrive on Friday in the Polish city of his birth to open an exhibition of his paintings. ?We wish to Gunter Grass very fruitful and pleasant stay in Gdansk,? Michal Samet, chairman of…
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News Jewish Groups Praise Court’s Health Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold President Obama?s landmark Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts voting in the majority. The Court upheld the most controversial provision of the law that required all American citizens to purchase health insurance or face a tax penalty. The court struck a provision…
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News Rehfeld Named Head of St. Louis Federation
Andrew Rehfeld, a law professor long active in the Jewish community, was named the chief executive officer and president of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Rehfeld, whose two-year contract will begin Sept. 1, will succeed Barry Rosenberg, 61, who after 20 years as the federation?s top executive will retire in August 2013. Rosenberg will…
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Fast Forward Putin: Russia Recognizes Palestine as State
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Moscow already has recognized a Palestinian state. ?We [recognized Palestine] 25 years ago, and our position has not changed,? Putin told Abbas on Tuesday during a visit to Ramallah, the Times of Israel reported. ?Palestinian leadership, and the president personally, have been behaving responsibly…
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Fast Forward Google Anti-Semitism Suit Dropped in France
French groups have settled a lawsuit accusing Google of violating French anti-racism laws because of a function that they say perpetuated anti-Semitic stereotypes. Google’s “autocomplete” feature suggests the word “juif” or “Jewish” as a top choice in connection with public figures such as Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp., the New York Times reported….
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Fast Forward German Joins Fight for Munich Remembrance
Germany’s foreign minister has joined the effort to urge the International Olympic Committee to hold a minute of silence at the London Olympics to commemorate the 40 years since Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered in Munich. Guido Westerwelle joins Canada’s House of Commons, 100 Australian lawmakers and the U.S. Senate. Westerwelle sent a letter…
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Fast Forward Shomrim Member Gets Probation in Beating
Eliyahu Werdesheim, a member of a volunteer Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group, will serve three years probation for assaulting a black teenager in Baltimore. Werdesheim, now 24, avoided jail time for the November 2010 beating of Corey Ausby, then 15, the Baltimore Sun reported. Werdesheim was a member of the Shomrim watch group at the…
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