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Fast Forward Sukkah Goes Up at Occupy Wall Street
A sukkah was erected in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. The sukkah, which was built Wednesday at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, was sponsored by Occupy Judaism NYC, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Kolot Chayeinu and CBST. No permit was obtained to build the sukkah and, according to the…
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Fast Forward Einstein Letter Sells for $14,000
A letter w A letter written by Albert Einstein to a Jewish New York businessman was sold at auction for nearly $14,000. The purchase price by an anonymous buyer was nearly double what was expected. The typed letter, signed A. Einstein and on his personal embossed stationery, was put up for sale by a West…
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Fast Forward Serial Killers Hunted for ‘Jewish-Sounding’ Victims
A white supremacist couple accused of four West Coast murders said they intended to “kill more Jews,” according to court documents. David Joseph Pedersen and Holly Grigsby were arrested north of Sacramento, Calif., last week after allegedly killing Pedersen’s father, stepmother and two strangers, including 19-year old Cody Myers, in a monthlong killing spree that…
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Fast Forward Israel Protesters Plan National Strike
Social justice protesters in Israel say they will hold a national strike at the end of the month. The strike announced late Monday night and set for Nov. 1, and mass rallies scheduled for Oct. 29, are being organized to express dissatisfaction with the report by the Trajtenberg Committee proposing solutions to Israel’s socioeconomic problems….
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Fast Forward Woman Sues, Claiming ‘Drive’ Is Anti-Semitic
A Michigan woman has filed a lawsuit over the film “Drive,” charging that the trailer was misleading and that the movie is anti-Semitic. The lawsuit filed by Sarah Deming against Film District, the studio that distributed “Drive,” and Emagine Novi, the company that operates the multiplex where she watched the movie, reads in part that…
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Fast Forward 1939 Einstein Letter Goes on the Block
A letter written by Albert Einstein to a Jewish New York businessman is up for sale. “We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity and our knowledge that the cause for which we are suffering is a momentous and sacred cause,” Einstein wrote to Hyman Zinn on June 10, 1939, praising him…
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Fast Forward Exiled Libyan Jew Forced to Leave Again
A Libyan Jewish exile attempting to restore Tripoli’s main synagogue will leave the country following angry protests. David Gerbi, who arrived in Libya from Italy this summer when Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi was ousted in a rebellion, agreed Sunday to return to Rome on a military transport scheduled to leave Tuesday, according to The Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward N.J. School Receives $17 Million Gift
The Golda Och Academy in West Orange, N.J., has received a $17.2 million donation from the estate of philanthropist Eric F. Ross. The money will support grants for the Lore Ross Neshama program, which allows students at the Solomon Schechter day school to spend the second semester of their senior year in Israel following a…
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