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Fast Forward Supreme Court Won’t Hear Holocaust Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the descendants of Jews deported during World War II who want to sue a French railway in American courts. The high court’s refusal Monday means an appeals court ruling throwing out the descendants’ lawsuit demanding France’s state railway network SNCF compensate the families of the…
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News Most Israeli Jews Back Civil Marriages
Some 62 percent of Jewish Israelis believe that civil and non-Orthodox marriages should be recognized in their country, a new survey has found. The Israel Religion and State Index 2011 conducted for the Hiddush – Freedom of Religion in Israel, Inc. organization, also found that 61 percent of the Jewish public supports equal recognition of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Exile Forced to Leave Libya Synagogue
A Libyan Jewish exile attempting to restore Tripoli’s main synagogue said he was forced to leave the site. David Gerbi, who arrived in Libya from Italy this summer when Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi was ousted in a rebellion, was warned Monday to leave the Dar al-Bishi synagogue site by area residents who said that men…
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Fast Forward Calif. Governor Signs Bill Preventing Anti-Circumcision Laws
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that prevents the state’s municipalities from banning male circumcision. Brown announced Sunday that he had signed the measure, which takes effect immediately. The state’s Legislature approved the bill early last month following attempts in two cities to place circumcision bans on the November ballot. Anti-circumcision activists, or “intactivists,”…
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Fast Forward Cuban Jews Meet Gross in Jail
Leaders of Cuba’s Jewish community met with jailed American contractor Alan Gross on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. Adele Dworin, president of the Hebrew Community of Cuba, and David Prinstein, vice president of the Patronato of the Jewish Community of Cuba, had a two-hour visit with Gross on Sept. 28, the Miami Herald reported. They…
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Fast Forward Arab League Calls for More Aid to Palestinians
The Arab League called on its member states to offer more financial aid to the Palestinians in response to a report that the United States has frozen $200 million in assistance. Britain’s Independent newspaper over the weekend wrote that the U.S. Congress had withheld the aid for food, health care and state building as a…
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Fast Forward Pope Offers Rosh Hashanah Greetings
Pope Benedict XVI sent out a High Holidays message auguring peace, justice and friendship in the Jewish New Year. In a message addressed to Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, the pope expressed his hope that “these important feasts may be an occasion for many blessings from on high, and a source of infinite grace.”…
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Fast Forward New Legal Wrangle Over Lubavitch Headquarters
Chabad-Lubavitch leaders have renewed their push to evict the congregational leaders of the Chasidic movement’s main Brooklyn synagogue. On Sept. 21, leaders of Chabad’s governing bodies issued vacate notices in a bid to force out the congregational leaders, or gabbaim, who effectively run the massive synagogue in the basement of 770 Eastern Parkway, the movement’s…
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