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Fast Forward Family Demands Return of Nazi-Looted Bird’s Head Haggadah — From Israel Museum
The grandchildren of a German Jewish lawmaker killed in the Holocaust are demanding the Israel Museum hand over a historic Haggadah that they say is rightfully theirs. According to The Associated Press, grandchildren of Ludwig Marum say that the museum’s “Birds’ Head Haggadah,” believed to be the world’s oldest illustrated Haggadah, was stolen from the…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Nixes Plan for Moses Statue in Siberia Jewish Enclave
Citing religious prohibitions, a rabbi in eastern Russia vetoed a local Jew’s plan to erect a statue of Moses in Birobidzhan — an area which Soviet governments designated as a Jewish autonomous region. Eli Riss, a Chabad envoy who serves as Birobidzhan’s chief rabbi, torpedoed the plan earlier this month, he told JTA Thursday. Valery…
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Israel News Jerusalem Police Thwart Passover Goat Sacrifice Plot
Israeli police detained seven Jewish men suspected of planning to sacrifice goats in the Old City of Jerusalem in honor of Passover, reported. The arrests on Friday came amid a pre-holiday crackdown against right-wing activists whose visits to the contested Temple Mount have been at the center of months-long tensions between Israel and the Palestinians….
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Fast Forward Cardin: Netanyahu Golan Declaration Not ‘Timely’ During Syria War
Sen. Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said declaring Israeli ownership of the Golan Heights was not “timely” while Syria was mired in civil war. He counseled Israel to focus more on peace with the Palestinians. “Syria is in a state of war, the whole area is in flux,” Cardin,…
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Fast Forward Stanford Student Body Passes Resolution Against Anti-Semitism
After weeks of debate about Israel and anti-Semitism, a student body at Stanford University passed a resolution condemning bias against Jews. The Undergraduate Senate of the Associated Students of Stanford University passed the “Resolution to Recognize and to Reaffirm the Fight against Anti-Semitism” on Tuesday in a unanimous vote, the Stanford daily . Alongside classical…
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Fast Forward Top Conservative Rabbi Quits Synagogue, Citing ‘Sexual Identity’
The president of the Conservative Jewish movement’s rabbinical arm left his post as the rabbi of a Dallas synagogue, citing apparent marital infidelity and questions about his sexuality. “I am very saddened to admit, both to you and to myself, that even as I strove to be present in the lives of so many people,…
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Israel News Israel to Close Off West Bank Amid Terror Fears
Israel is closing off the West Bank for the start of Passover amid fears of further terrorist attacks after a bus bombing in Jerusalem that wounded 20. The closure will begin Thursday night and last through Saturday night. Israel has “warnings, although not concrete” about terrorist attacks planned for the coming days, Israel’s Channel 10 reported,…
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Fast Forward Rabbinic Court Hunts for Israeli Prof Who Refused to Give Get to WIfe
Israel’s Rabbinical High Court said it did not know the whereabouts of a man who has refused to divorce his wife and called on the public for help in locating him. The court on Thursday released a statement asking anyone who has seen Oded Guez, a physicist at Bar-Ilan University, in the last 48 hours…
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