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Fast Forward Israeli Ex-Pats Should Get More Rights: Study
Israel should give Israeli migrants absentee voting rights for their first four years abroad and finance schools for the children of Israelis in the Diaspora, a new policy paper recommends. The policy paper released this week by the Jewish People Policy Institute based in Jerusalem argues that Israelis residing abroad, especially in North America, can…
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Fast Forward Tunisia Decries Anti-Semitism by Sharia Backers
Tunisia’s religious affairs ministry condemned anti-Semitic epithets shouted at a rally in Tunis calling for the imposition of Islamic law in the country’s new constitution. “The call to fight against the Jews is absurd. The ministry rejects this attack against all Tunisian citizens,” the ministry said in a statement issued Tuesday, according to the French…
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Fast Forward Park Slope Food Coop Rejects Israel Boycott
A well-known cooperative grocery store in Brooklyn voted to reject a boycott of Israeli goods. At a special meeting Tuesday night, members of the Park Slope Food Coop rejected by a vote of 1,005 to 653 a proposal to hold a mail ballot referendum for all members on whether to stop selling Israeli goods. The…
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Fast Forward Neudorfer Resigns as CFO of Jewish Agency
Yaron Neudorfer, the chief financial officer of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has resigned. The resignation comes amid a time of change at the Jewish Agency, including the planned end of automatic funding to the agency by the Jewish Federations of North America. Until now, the Jewish Agency automatically had received 75 percent of the…
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Fast Forward Student Beaten Outside Jewish School in Paris
A Jewish boy reportedly was beaten outside the Ozar Hatorah school in Paris by youths shouting anti-Semitic epithets. The incident occurred Monday outside the school, which the 12-year-old victim attends. He was not seriously injured. The attack came a week after a gunman opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, killing a rabbi…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Students Disrupt Knesset Members’ Speech
Brandeis University students disrupted a panel discussion at a Boston-area synagogue featuring Israeli lawmakers and Jewish community leaders. The students, members of the Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine group, removed their shirts in Temple Emanuel in Newton, Mass., to uncover T-shirts that read “apartheid” in Hebrew. They also chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “Israel…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Lays Off 30 Staffers
The Union for Reform Judaism laid off about 30 employees as part of a general restructuring of the organization. The reorganization is part of a series of changes being ushered in by the new president of the URJ, Rabbi Richard Jacobs, who took over at the beginning of January. The layoffs were announced Monday. “We’re…
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Won’t Air Toulouse Shooter’s Video
Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera said it had decided not to broadcast video footage of three deadly shootings in southern France filmed by an al-Qaida-inspired gunman using a camera strapped to his body, news services reported. “Al Jazeera will not air video of French shootings,” the Qatar-based news channel said in a headline on its…
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