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Fast Forward ‘No Anti-Semitism’ Here, Mayor of Lvov Claims
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has strongly condemned a statement by the mayor of Lviv, Ukraine, in which he said that in his city “there has never been anti-Semitism and there will never be.” Mayor Andriy Sadovyi made the statement June 10 at a news conference. Efraim Zuroff, Israel director for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told…
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Fast Forward Congressional Candidate Charles Barron Slammed
Several current and former New York Jewish elected officials gathered to denounce the congressional candidacy of Charles Barron for his anti-Israel views. Ex-Mayor Ed Koch, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), City Councilman David Greenfield and state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, among others, gathered in front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in…
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Fast Forward Napolitano Meets With Federations on Security
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with leaders of the Jewish Federations of North America to discuss partnering with faith-based communities during security threats. “Homeland security begins with hometown security, and our nation’s faith-based organizations play a critical role in keeping our communities safe,” Napolitano said in a statement after the meeting Monday. “DHS works…
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Fast Forward Jews Ask Brazil Leader To Shun Ahmadinejad
Representatives of Brazil’s Jewish communities urged the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, not to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to Brazil. Ahmadinejad is expected in Brazil next week for Rio +20, a United Nations summit on sustainable development that opens June 20. A delegation of members from the umbrella organization of Brazil’s…
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Fast Forward Israelis Get Special Investor Visa Status
President Obama signed legislation that would that would add Israel to the list of countries eligible for non-immigrant investor visas in the United States. The legislation, which was spearheaded by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), would grant Israelis E-2 investor visas, allowing them to live and work in the U.S. in order to be closer to…
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News U.S. Military Clean Auschwitz Jewish Cemetery
A group of cadets and midshipmen from U.S. military academies are cleaning up a Jewish cemetery near Auschwitz as part of a Holocaust education initiative. The 14 students from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard cleared weeds and brush this week in the Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim, the town outside of which Auschwitz…
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Fast Forward Conservatives Cut Funds for Campus Group
The Conservative movement has reduced funding for its college campus organization, and expects Koach supporters to come up with the remaining requested money, according to United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism’s executive vice president. In its board meeting in Detroit on Sunday, USCJ voted to provide Koach with $100,000 for fiscal year 2013, beginning July 1,…
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Fast Forward Bioethicist Peter Singer Wins Top Aussie Honor
Peter Singer, a U.S.-based philosopher and ethicist, was awarded Australia’s highest honor. The Melbourne-born Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, on Monday was named a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s birthday awards for leading public debate on global poverty, animal rights and the human condition. Singer, a vegetarian and…
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