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Fast Forward Lakewood Rabbis Warn Community That Welfare Fraud Is ‘Not Justified’
(JTA) — The Orthodox rabbinical council in Lakewood, N.J. responded to the arrest of community members on charges of welfare fraud by declaring “[t]here is no such thing as ‘justified’ theft.” The statement follows the arrests of at least seven couples in the community’s haredi Orthodox community on charges of illegally obtaining government benefits. The four couples…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Leaders Warn Netanyahu Of ‘Crisis Of Faith’ On Western Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three AIPAC leaders reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we have lost the incentive to act for Israel” and of a “crisis of faith” among American Jews in the aftermath of the freezing of the Western Wall agreement. Outgoing president Lillian Pinkus, her successor, Mort Fridman, and managing director Richard Fishman…
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Fast Forward South African Union Leader Ordered To Apologize To Jews For ‘Hell’ Remark
(JTA) — A senior trade union figure who threatened the Jewish community must offer an “unconditional apology,” a South African court ruled. The Equity Court said Bongani Masuku, the international relations spokesman for the Congress of South African Trade Unions, or COSATU, must offer the apology through the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the…
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Fast Forward Women Insulted For Reading Torah At French Synagogue
(JTA) — Women who read aloud from the Torah at a synagogue in Marseille were subjected to threats and insults by congregants after local rabbis condemned the event. The dozens of threats and insults, made on social networks and in emails, started coming in Saturday night after the group of half a dozen women read…
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Fast Forward Ohio Lawmakers Want To Bar Israel Boycott On College Campuses
(JTA) — Ohio lawmakers introduced a resolution against the boycott of Israel on college campuses. The measure presented Wednesday in the General Assembly by Rep. Andy Thompson, a Republican, calls for increased ties in business, government, the arts, and education between the state of Ohio and Israel. It also includes a denouncement of the rise…
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Fast Forward Philadelphia Ethnic Intimidation Law Signed Following Jewish Cemetery Vandalism
(JTA) — Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed into law an ethnic intimidation bill introduced after the vandalism of about 175 headstones at a local cemetery. The Ethnic Intimidation and Institutional Vandalism bill signed last week, says that fines for desecrating objects will be applied to each individual act of vandalizing a headstone, grave marker or…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Downplays Importance Of Israel’s Western Wall Flip-Flop
(JTA) — Jonathan Sacks, the previous chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, said the existence of an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall means liberal Jews were not defeated by the suspension of a plan to expand that area. Sacks, who is an Orthodox rabbi, discussed the controversy around the Western Wall at a meeting…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Flyers Dropped In Washington, D.C., Neighborhoods
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and white supremacist flyers were dropped at houses in neighborhoods of northwest Washington DC. Residents of the Glover Park neighborhood found the two-sided flyers dropped on their front doorstep Wednesday morning, the local Fox affiliate, Fox5 reported. The flyers were dropped at both Jewish and non-Jewish homes, according to Fox. DC police…
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