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Fast Forward Robert Elman Named AJCommittee’s New President
Robert Elman was elected president of the American Jewish Committee at the organization’s annual meeting. Elman, a member of the AJC for more than 40 years, succeeds Richard Sideman. “I am privileged to lead the premier Jewish global advocacy organization as we face the serious challenges confronting world Jewry, Israel and the United States,” Elman…
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Fast Forward Ahmadinejad’s U.N. Speech Attacks U.S. and Israel, Sends Delegates Out
Delegates to a United Nations conference on nuclear proliferation walked out as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech, which attacked the United States and Israel. The delegates from the United States, Britain, France, Hungary, New Zealand and the Netherlands left the room at the start of the Iranian president’s address Monday. Ahmadinejad used his opening speech…
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Fast Forward Indian Court Finds Mumbai Gunman Guilty
An Indian court found a Pakistani man guilty of murder and other offenses for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Ajmal Kasab also was found guilty Monday of conspiracy and waging war against India in a series of attacks that left 166 people dead, including six at the Mumbai Chabad house, which was targeted…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Painter and Holocaust Survivor, Dies
Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, a major figure in modern art, died at his home in Paris. Arikha, whose work was influenced by his experiences as a Holocaust survivor, died April 29 from complications from cancer. He was 81. Arikha also had a home in Jerusalem. Arikha began as an abstract artist, but renounced it in…
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Fast Forward No Protests as Goldstone Attends Grandson’s Bar Mitzvah
Richard Goldstone attended his grandson’s bar mitzvah without protests. Members of the congregation stood at the road leading to the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Shul in Sandton, South Africa, to make sure that only family and their guests entered for Saturday’s service, the South Africa Times reported. Goldstone, the author of a United Nations report on…
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Fast Forward Divestment Bills Fail at Two Calif. Universities
The student government at the University of California, Berkeley fell a vote short in a bid to override a veto against a divestment bill. Meanwhile, a vote early Thursday morning by the Associated Students at the University of California, San Diego reportedly was unsuccessful in passing a similar measure. At Berkeley, 13 senators voted early…
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Fast Forward Haaretz Reporter To Turn Over Secret Documents
Lawyers for the reporter who received top secret Israeli army documents from a former soldier will turn them over to security officials Haaretz reporter Uri Blau met with his attorneys in London, where he is in hiding from Israel’s Shin Bet security service, and told them where to find documents given to him by Anat…
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Fast Forward RCA Comes Out Against Women in the Rabbinate
The leading Modern Orthodox rabbinic association has adopted an official position against the ordination of women while also encouraging the creation of “halakhically and communally appropriate professional opportunities” for female scholars. Members of the Rabbinical Council of America adopted the resolution during their three-day conference that began Sunday in Scarsdale, N.Y. The resolution comes just…
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