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Fast Forward Jewish Day School Pitcher Drafted by Nationals
The Washington Nationals drafted a 2012 graduate of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland in the Major League Baseball draft. Max Ungar, 17, played catcher at CESJDS and was drafted by the Nationals in the 36th round of the draft. The Rockville, Md. campus of CESJDS is named after the owners of…
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Fast Forward Australian Activists Protest Israel Independence
A crowd of angry pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Melbourne marred the annual celebration of Israel’s independence. Attendees at Tuesday night’s high-profile gathering of politicians, diplomats, bureaucrats and Jewish leaders were forced to walk past the 100-strong crowd who were held back by police, the Australian Jewish News reported. Among the banners brandished by the protesters were…
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Fast Forward Jewish Family Identified in Arizona Murder-Suicide
Police have identified a Jewish family from Tempe, Ariz., the Butwins, as the subjects of a suspected murder-suicide. Police said that James Butwin, a board member of his local synagogue, Temple Emanuel, was the primary suspect in the killing of his wife and three daughters. The bodies were found in a burning S.U.V. on Saturday…
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Fast Forward Deal in Holland Allows Kosher Slaughter
Dutch Agriculture Minister Hans Bleker signed an agreement with Jewish and Muslim religious leaders and slaughterhouses that will prevent a ban on ritual slaughter. Under the agreement signed Tuesday, animals can continue to be ritually slaughtered as long as they lose consciousness within 40 seconds of their throats being cut. After 40 seconds they must…
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Fast Forward French Men Charged in Anti-Semitic Attack
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with an attack on three Jewish teens in Lyon in southeastern France. The two suspects reportedly turned themselves in to police on Wednesday, the French news agency AFP reported. The “main perpetrator” of the attack has not yet been apprehended, local police chief Albert Doutre said, according to…
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Fast Forward 3 Jewish Educators Honored for Excellence
Three Jewish educators have received 2012 Covenant Awards for excellence in Jewish education and innovation. The recipients of one of the most coveted honors in the field of Jewish education are Peter Geffen, founder and executive director of KIVUNIM: New Directions in New York; Gitta Jaroslawicz-Neufeld, director of education at Allegra Franco School of Educational…
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Fast Forward Australian Limmud Scraps Controversial Panel
Limmud Oz, an offshoot of the international festival of Jewish learning, cancelled a panel featuring several controversial Jewish speakers for its upcoming conference in Melbourne. The Jewish panelists no longer speaking, though they initially appeared on the Limmud Oz website, include Vivienne Porzsolt, a spokeswoman for Jews Against the Occupation who was detained in Israel…
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Fast Forward Congress Probes Jailing of Hasid in Bolivia
The House Foreign Affairs human rights subcommittee will hold a hearing about the plight of a Chasidic Jew from Brooklyn being held in a Bolivian jail. New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher has been on a hunger strike for nearly two months until he is either put on trial to defend himself against money laundering charges…
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