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Fast Forward Gift Lets Milwaukee School Subsidize Fees
A major gift from an anonymous donor will allow the Milwaukee Jewish Day School to offer fully subsidized tuition for new students. Under the Building Our Future grant program announced last week, the school said it will subsidize the first year of tuition for new students entering first through seventh grades for the 2012-13 school…
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Fast Forward British Supermarket Won’t Buy From Settlements
The United Kingdom’s fifth largest food retailer has ended trade with suppliers who export produce grown in West Bank settlements. The British Co-operative Group is the first major European supermarket group to cut ties “with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements,” the British newspaper The Guardian reported Sunday. The…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Says He Wants ‘Just’ Law on Service
The Tal Law, which enables full-time yeshiva students to be exempted from mandatory army service, will be replaced with “a more egalitarian and just law,” Israel’s Prime Minister promised activists. “The division of the burden must be changed. What has been is not what will be,” Benjamin Netanyahu told representatives of reservist activists protesting as…
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Fast Forward Suspect Is Held in Anti-African Firebombings
Police arrested a 20-year-old resident of south Tel Aviv for firebombing the homes of African asylum seekers living in his neighborhood. The man was expected to appear in court on Sunday. It is not known if the alleged arsonist had any accomplices. The attacks, which occurred on the morning of April 27th, were directed at…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Plan Rally Against Dangers of Internet
Haredi Orthodox leaders are planning what they say will be a massive rally in New York City to call attention to the dangers of modern digital technology. Tens of thousands are expected to gather for a May 20 rally at Citi Field, the Mets’ baseball stadium in Queens. The Hebrew-language Jewish Daily News reported that…
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News Tigers’ Young Charged in Anti-Semitic Brawl
Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arrested outside of a New York hotel for allegedly attacking a group of men and making anti-Semitic remarks. Young was arrested early Friday morning outside of the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan, where he was staying before a series with the New York Yankees begins on Friday night. According to…
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Fast Forward Top Dutch Rabbi Gets Award From Queen
The queen of the Netherlands is naming one of the country’s chief rabbis an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, among Holland’s highest honors. The honor will be awarded to Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, chief rabbi of the Inter-Provincial Chief Rabbinate in Holland, next week. The announcement of the honor was made Friday by the Dutch…
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News ZOA Lobbies Congress To Back Israel
Zionist Organization of America activists lobbied members of Congress to prevent a nuclear Iran and to cut assistance to the Palestinian Authority. As part of the ZOA’s annual advocacy mission to Washington, D.C., members from 15 states around the country on Wednesday urged Congress to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, to stop sending…
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