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Fast Forward ZOA Wants Rutgers To Combat Anti-Semitism
The Zionist Organization of America sent a letter to the president of Rutgers University, urging him to do more to combat anti-Semitism on the campus. ZOA was responding to an incident in which a Jewish student was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by a university-funded, student-run satirical newspaper. The ZOA leadership in an April…
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Fast Forward Candidate Compares No-Smoking Laws to Nazis
A Republican candidate for the Senate drew fire from Jewish groups for likening no-smoking laws to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. John Raese, who is seeking to oust Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) lashed out at an April 12 GOP event at laws that require his businesses to post…
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Fast Forward Obama Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
President Obama marked Holocaust Remembrance day with calls to combat Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, as well as for vigilance against current and future atrocities. “As societies, we must stand against ignorance and anti-Semitism, including those who try to deny the Holocaust,” Obama said in a statement issued Thursday. “As nations, we must do everything we…
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Fast Forward Israeli Conservatives Will Ordain Gay Rabbis
Gay and lesbian students will be ordained as Conservative rabbis in Israel. The Board of Trustees of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary voted Thursday night to accept gay and lesbian students for ordination beginning with the 2012-13 academic year. The Conservative movement in Israel is known as Masorti. A seminary statement said the decision comes following…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Drop 27%: Report
Global anti-Semitism fell by 27 percent in 2011, according to an annual report. The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University presented its global anti-Semitism report for 2011 on Wednesday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The report showed that the number of cases of major violent incidents, including…
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Fast Forward $3.5 Million Looted Painting Is Returned
A painting stolen from its Italian Jewish owner and sold by France’s Vichy government was returned to his heirs. “Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue,” a 16th-century work by Girolamo de’ Romani, is going back to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, who owned the painting until he died in France in…
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Fast Forward Hadassah Probe Clears Two Top Leaders
A Hadassah-commissioned probe has exonerated two top officials, Marcie Natan and Nancy Falchuk, of financial abuse allegations. Natan, Hadassah’s national president, and Falchuk, the organization’s former national president, had been accused by Hadassah’s chief operating officer, Larry Blum, of misuse of organizational assets. Blum outlined the charges in a Jan. 12 letter delivered while he…
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Fast Forward Bishop Slammed for Nazi Health Law Comparison
An address by a Roman Catholic bishop that compared President Obama’s health care policies to Hitler’s actions did not play well in Peoria. The Anti Defamation League has called on Peoria Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky to apologize for statements in his April 15 homily, which ADL Regional Director Lonnie Nasatir told the Chicago Tribune…
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