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Fast Forward Rabbi Yechezkel Besser, Father of Polish Revival, Dies
Rabbi Yechezkel Besser, the “spiritual father” of the Polish Jewish revival, has died. Besser, who died Tuesday, is widely credited with focusing Jewish attention and resources on the remnant of Polish Jewry to have survived the Holocaust. “Chaskel Besser was the guy that started the Jewish revival in Poland,” said Michael Schudrich, the chief rabbi…
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Fast Forward Oren Close to Resolution with ‘Mainstream’ J Street
The Israeli ambassador to Washington says his dispute with J Street is close to resolution and that the group was “much more in the mainstream.” Michael Oren stirred controversy last summer when he refused to attend the inaugural conference of the dovish pro-Israel lobby, and again late last year when he told a group of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups’ Letter Urges Obama To Open Gaza
Jewish and Israeli groups have signed on to a letter urging President Obama to press Israel to lift its closure of the Gaza Strip. “Due to Israel’s policy of severely limiting passage of essential goods and materiel through its crossings, the suffering in Gaza continues,” said the letter sent to the White House last week…
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Fast Forward Israeli Conservative Synagogue Burned
A Conservative synagogue in Israel was burned. The fire set Monday night to the Shir Hadasha synagogue in Arad in the Negev scorched the outside of the building, but was put out before it damaged the inside, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The attack comes a year after another attempt to burn down the synagogue…
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Fast Forward Bernard Lander, Touro College Founder, Dies at 94
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander, the founder and president of Touro College, has died. Lander died Monday night at his home in Queens. He was 94. He started Touro in 1971 after spending two decades as a sociology professor at Yeshiva University, where he also served as dean of the university’s Bernard Revel graduate school, and…
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Fast Forward Costa Rica Elects Jewish V.P.
A Jewish former banker was elected the vice president of Costa Rica. Luis Lieberman will become vice president after Costa Rican voters on Sunday elected Laura Chinchilla as the Central American country’s first female president by a wide margin. Lieberman’s parents immigrated to Costa Rica from Poland before World War II. He is the grandson…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Interior Minister: Legalize E. Jerusalem’s Beit Yonatan
Israel’s interior minister has asked a Jerusalem municipal committee to consider legalizing a Jewish building in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood. Eli Yishai authorized the Jerusalem District Building and Planning Committee to vote on the status of Beit Yonatan, a seven-story building in Silwan built without a permit five years ago by the right-wing group Ateret…
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Fast Forward Secretary Clinton: Iran, N. Korea Pose Gravest Threats to U.S. Interests
North Korea and Iran are the countries posing the gravest threats to U.S. interests, Hillary Rodham Clinton said. The U.S. secretary of state was asked by CNN on Sunday which countries she thought posed the greatest threats to the United States. “In terms of a country, obviously, a nuclear-armed country like North Korea or Iran…
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