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Fast Forward Steven Schwager Quits Post as JDC Leader
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s CEO is stepping down. The JDC announced Friday that Steven Schwager would step down as CEO on at the end of June and will retire from the organization in January 2013. Schwager has served as CEO since 2002 and has been with the Jewish international humanitarian assistance organization since…
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Fast Forward Britain Pushes To Ease Iran Insurance Sanction
Britain reportedly is urging its European partners to reconsider one of the most biting Iran sanctions among those set to kick in this summer. A broad range of European Union sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector include a ban on insuring ships that transport Iranian oil. The New York Times reported Friday that Britain, a longtime…
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Fast Forward Pope Meets Latin American Jewish Leaders
Pope Benedict XVI received a private audience of Latin American Jewish leaders from 12 countries. The group, which met Thursday with the pope, was led by Latin American Jewish Congress President Jack Terpins. According to Latin American Jewish Congress, the pope said that “dynamic Jewish communities exist throughout Latin America, especially in Argentina and Brazil,…
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The Schmooze Roman Polanski Plans Dreyfus Flick
Polish director Roman Polanski’s next film will be a political thriller based on the Dreyfus Affair. The acclaimed director announced Wednesday that the new film, titled “D,” will reunite the team that produced his award-winning film “Ghost Writer.” Albert Dreyfus was a French Jewish army officer who was falsely convicted of treason in 1894. In…
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Fast Forward Hebrew College Will Keep Boston Building
Hebrew College is renegotiating its debt and will be able to keep its flagship Newton Building. Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, president of the suburban Boston college, told The Jewish Advocate newspaper that the school has settled its original loan and refinanced its debt to $7.4 million from $32 million. Lehmann formally announced the news at Wednesday’s…
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Fast Forward U.S. House Passes New Israel Cooperation Bill
The U.S House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that reaffirms and enhances U.S. policy commitments to Israel’s security. The United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, which was sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), passed by a vote of 411-2. The legislation…
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Fast Forward Jews Gather at Ancient Tunisian Synagogue
Hundreds of Jews gathered on Tunisia’s Djerba Island as part of a pilgrimage to the 2,500-year-old El Ghriba synagogue. Some 500 European Jews and 1,000 Jewish Tunisians made the journey Wednesday to celebrate the yahrzeit, or anniversary of the death, of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the 2nd-century Torah scholar and author of the Zohar, the…
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Fast Forward Editor Apologizes Israel ‘Apartheid’ Headline
The editor of a national broadsheet newspaper in Australia apologized to the Jewish community for a headline which accused Israel of “cruel apartheid.” Nick Cater, editor of the Weekend Australian newspaper, admitted this week that the headline to a story in the May 5 newspaper – titled “Living under the cloud of Israel’s cruel apartheid”…
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