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Fast Forward Conservative Movement Enacts New Bylaws
The Conservative movement’s synagogue umbrella group approved new bylaws aimed at improving its governance. The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism adopted new bylaws Sunday that will reduce the size of its board of directors and place greater philanthropic demands on the board, according to a news release. The new bylaws also will increase the organization’s…
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Fast Forward Iranians ‘Like’ Israelis Right Back
Iranians have responded to a Facebook page posted by an Israeli couple that communicates the message that Israel loves Iran. The Love and Peace Facebook page created on the evening of March 17 by Israeli graphic artists Ronny Edry and his wife, Michal Tamir, includes posters that read “Iranians, we will never bomb your country,…
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Fast Forward Federations Want Vigilance After France Shooting
The security arm of the U.S. Jewish federations asked Jewish officials to remain vigilant in the wake of a deadly attack on a French Jewish school, citing the possibility of copycat attacks. “While this event initially appears to be localized, we are always concerned about the possibility of copycat attacks,” a spokesman for the Secure…
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Fast Forward Wilpons To Pay $162 Million for Madoff Suit
The owners of the New York Mets will pay up to $162 million to settle a “clawback” lawsuit filed in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. Fred Wilpon and his brother-in-law Saul Katz will not have to make payments for three years under the agreement. The lawsuit was settled Monday morning in Manhattan Federal Court just…
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Fast Forward Baltimore Jewish Paper Ordered To Liquidate Assets
A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered a trustee to run Alter Communications, the publishing firm of the Baltimore Jewish Times that was unable to reorganize under Chapter 11. The 93-year-old newspaper, which says it has never missed an issue, could close by the end of the week, the Baltimore Sun reported. Alter on Friday told…
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Fast Forward Al Qaeda Chief Offers Swap for Weinstein
Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said in a video that he would swap an American hostage for prisoners in the U.S. with links to the organization. In exchange for Warren Weinstein, Zawahiri specifically called for the release of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind cleric convicted of attempting to blow up the World Trade Center in…
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Fast Forward Israel Wants U.N. Pic Tweeter Fired
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations has called for the dismissal of a U.N. agency employee based in Jerusalem who tweeted an incendiary photo during recent violence between Gaza and Israel. Khulood Badawi, the information and media coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem, on March 10 tweeted…
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Fast Forward John Demjanjuk, Nazi Camp Guard, Dies
John Demjanjuk, the Cleveland auto worker convicted as a death camp guard, died in a German nursing home. Demjanjuk, 91, died Saturday at an old-age home in southern Germany, where he was free while he appealed his conviction last year in the murder of 28,060 people at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, NPR reported….
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