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Fast Forward No Successor Picked for Britain’s Rabbi Sacks
England’s United Synagogue denied a report that the post of chief rabbi had been offered to Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi. Haaretz reported Tuesday that Haifa-based Rabbi Yona Metzger had been asked to replace Rabbi Jonathan Sacks as the UK’s chief rabbi when he steps down in 2013. According to the United Synagogue, however, no one…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Raise Flag at UNESCO Ceremony
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas raised the Palestinian flag at a ceremony marking its entrance into the United Nations cultural agency. Abbas raised the flag Tuesday at UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in Paris. He was scheduled to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “This is truly a historic moment,” Abbas…
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Fast Forward Israel Marks 50 Years Since Eichmann’s Capture
On the 50th anniversary of Adolf Eichmann’s capture for trial in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the event shaped Jewish history. “Eichmann’s capture and bringing to trial were a turning point at which the State of Israel and the Jewish people began to exact justice on their persecutors,” Netanyahu said Monday at the official…
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Fast Forward Baseball MVP Ryan Braun Failed Drug Test
Ryan Braun, the first Jewish player in more than five decades to win one of baseball’s Most Valuable Player awards, has reportedly tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug. The Associated Press cited an unnamed source who said that the case was under appeal to an arbitrator under Major League Baseball’s drug program. Braun is disputing…
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Fast Forward Gay Issue Prompts Seminary Rabbi To Quit
A rabbinic leader has quit the Conservative rabbinical seminary in Israel, reportedly over its policies toward gay students. Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, a former assistant dean at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem, resigned over what is alleged to have been an unfulfilled promise by the school to ordain gay students, The Jerusalem Post reported. “She…
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Fast Forward Israel Shooting for the Moon
Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the international Google Lunar X Prize. The challenge is to become the first team to successfully launch, fly and land a robotic spacecraft on the moon. The…
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Fast Forward Court Upholds Conviction of Hamas Funders
A U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions of five Holy Land Foundation organizers on charges of conspiring to send money to Hamas. The ruling was handed down Wednesday by a three-judge panel from the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Texas. The Texas-based Holy Land Foundation had its assets frozen by the Bush administration…
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Fast Forward Bus Company Fined for Forcing Women to Back
Israel’s largest bus company, Egged, was fined for forcing a woman to sit in the back of a bus, a small claims court ruled. Egged was fined approximately $1,070 on Wednesday for gender discrimination and violating the High Court of Justice’s ruling opposing forced segregation of men and women in the public sphere, according to…
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