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Fast Forward Summer Camps Get Security Briefing After Norway Attack
The Security Community Network is convening a conference call for organizers of Jewish camps and travel programs in the wake of the Norway massacre. The call, which is set to take place Wednesday, will feature security experts, including SCN director Paul Goldenberg. ?This unprecedented violent and targeted attack against a youth camp sent shock waves…
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Fast Forward American Groups Back Israeli Cost of Living Protests
At least three liberal U.S. Jewish groups have expressed support for burgeoning social justice protests in Israel. The protests, bringing together housing shortage protesters, strikers in various professions and those seeking food subsidies, as well as myriad other groups, saw 150,000 people demonstrating across the country Saturday night. The New Israel Fund is helping to…
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Fast Forward Oldest Australian Jew Dies at 110
Mary Rothstein, Australia’s oldest Jew, has died at age 110. Rothstein died Tuesday afternoon at an aged-care facility run by Jewish Care in Melbourne. She was the second-oldest Australian and was believed to be the second-oldest Jew in the world after Evelyn Kozak of New York City, according Robert Young, a senior researcher at the…
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Fast Forward Progressive Jews Meet With White House
Representatives from progressive Jewish organizations met with White House officials. The 170 representatives came to the White House on July 29 for a policy briefing on issues including housing, health care and education. Members of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, an umbrella group of 21 nonprofit organizations, spoke with White House staff about a number…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Property Database Provides Trove of Info
A database of Holocaust-era property records has become the largest publicly available, single-source database of lost Jewish property assets from that era. Project HEART-Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce, an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel in cooperation with the government of Israel, announced last week that the database hit the 1.5 million mark in…
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Fast Forward Looted Warsaw Ghetto Painting Returned to Poland
A Nazi-looted painting depicting Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto was returned to Poland. “Jewish Woman Selling Oranges,” a 19th-century oil-on-canvas work, was one of several by Polish artist Aleksandr Giermyski depicting Jewish life in the ghetto. The painting, which was believed to have been stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw in 1944 near…
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Fast Forward Australian Rabbi Resigns Over Molestation Cover-Up Report
A Sydney rabbi stepped aside from his high-profile post while he fights a report suggesting he supported covering up alleged cases of child molestation. Rabbi Yosef Feldman removed himself as president of the Rabbinical Council of New South Wales Monday after the Australian Jewish News published a damning report, based on leaked e-mails, alleging that…
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Fast Forward Jewish and Roma Youth Meet in Hungary
Representatives of Jewish and Roma, or Gypsy, youth groups from eight countries are meeting in Hungary. The weeklong encounter, called “Volunticipate,” begins Monday. The youth are gathering to discuss how to build partnerships, plan joint initiatives, and exchange experiences about minority identity and grass-roots civil activism. Volunticipate takes place before and during the annual Bankito…
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