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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel Gets Upper West Side Street Named In His Honor
(JTA) — New York City has named a street after Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was renamed Elie Wiesel Way during a ceremony on Tuesday. Wiesel was “perhaps the most eloquent voice for peace in…
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Fast Forward Rex Tillerson Says Palestinians Agree To Stop Paying Terrorist Families
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told senators that the Palestinian Authority will stop paying the families of terrorists who have attacked or killed Israelis. “We have been very clear with them that this is simply not acceptable to us,” Tillerson said on Capitol Hill Tuesday at a meeting of the Senate Foreign…
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Fast Forward Fired Paramedic Sues Ambulance Service For Mocking Judaism — And Anne Frank
(JTA) — A Jewish paramedic in Tennessee has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his former employer for making disparaging remarks about his faith and then firing him for complaining. Joshua Jenkins was fired in March 2016 after working for the Grainger County Ambulance Service for two years. He is asking for $500,000 in compensatory…
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Fast Forward 80% Of Reform Rabbis Are Democrats — Even Orthodox Lean To Liberal Side Of Aisle
(JTA) — The vast majority of Reform and Conservative rabbis affiliate as Democrats, according to a new study. The study, published Sunday by Yale University, found that more than 80 percent of Reform rabbis, and about 70 percent of Conservative rabbis, affiliate as Democrats. Both were among the top five most Democratic clergy of the…
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Fast Forward Einstein Letters On Israel And God Hit Auction Block
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five letters written by Albert Einstein to quantum physicist David Bohm covering topics including God, McCarthyism and the new state of Israel will be auctioned off next week. The letters will be sold in a live auction with participation online by the Winner’s auction house in Jerusalem. They were put up for sale…
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Fast Forward Celebrity Israeli Chef Making Pitch To Feed Hungry Kids
(JTA) — A celebrity Israeli chef is calling on American Jews and Israeli Americans to help feed hungry school children in Israel. Haim Cohen, an Israeli TV cooking star and restaurateur, known in the United States for his work on the menu of Taboon restaurant in New York, is the face of a social media…
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Fast Forward Israeli Culture Minister Walks Out On Work By Famed Palestinian Poet
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Miri Regev, Israel’s minister of culture and sports, walked out on an awards ceremony after an artist performed a song based on a work by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Regev walked out of the Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards ceremony Monday evening as Arab-Israeli singer Mira Awad, who received an…
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Fast Forward London Gets Advice From Israel On Fighting Urban Terrorism
(JTA) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he spoke with Israeli officials for advice on how to combat urban terrorism in the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester. Khan told the London-based Jewish News that his office and Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officials had spoken with officials in Israel. “My office has been in…
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