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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial in David Ben-Gurion’s Hometown Is Found Amid Property Spat
Polish police said they located a Holocaust monument that had been reported missing in Plonsk, the birthplace of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Police found the monument in the possession of individuals who claim they own the area, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported last week. Police would not name them. Separately, a Jewish cemetery…
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Fast Forward Polish Nationalist Protester Faces Prison for Burning Jew in Effigy
Polish prosecutors indicted for incitement a construction contractor from the western city of Wroclaw who burned an effigy of a Jew at a protest rally against Muslim immigration. Piotr Rybak, an entrepreneur from Wroclaw, may face as long as two years in jail if convicted of the charges levelled against him last week for his…
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Fast Forward Iconic Lithuania Arts Fair Includes Jews for First Time in 4 Centuries
For the first time in recent history, Lithuanian Jews will be represented at a Vilnius street market that is one the country’s oldest traditions. The Jewish presence at the March 4-6 Kaziukas Fair — a large annual Lithuanian folk arts and crafts event dating back to 1604 — will comprise a stand where shoppers can…
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Fast Forward Oberlin President Opens Up About Professor’s Anti-Semitic Rants
In a lengthy statement that referenced his Jewish background, Oberlin College’s president responded to the firestorm surrounding a professor’s controversial social media posts, but he stopped short of condemning the professor. In a statement published Tuesday on an official college website, Marvin Krislov said the posts by assistant professor Joy Karega “affected me on a…
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Fast Forward Andrew Silow-Carroll Named Editor in Chief of JTA
Veteran journalist Andrew Silow-Carroll has been hired by 70 Faces Media to be the editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the nearly century-old international news agency. For the past 10 years, Silow-Carroll has served as CEO and editor-in-chief of the New Jersey Jewish News. His weekly column is regularly reprinted in the Times…
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Fast Forward Philadelphia Yeshiva Lab School To Open With $25M Grant
A modern Orthodox elementary school in suburban Philadelphia will launch a middle school with a $25 million grant from a local foundation. The Yeshiva Lab School in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, said this week that it would open the school for the 2017-18 academic year. The Kohelet Foundation, which assists Jewish day schools in the Philadelphia…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans First ‘Miss Transgender’ Pageant
Israel will be holding its first beauty pageant for transgender women. Nearly 30 transgender Jews and Arabs auditioned Thursday at a Tel Aviv club for a place in the Miss Trans Israel pageant, according to The Associated Press. “Definitely we are achieving, enlightening the people to accept and empower transsexuals,” Israela Stephanie Lev, the pageant’s…
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The Schmooze Amy Schumer Tweets ‘Offensive and Wrong’ Joke About Jews
Jewish comic Amy Schumer tweeted a Jewish joke criticized as “offensive and wrong” by the Gossip Cop website. In a Twitter post Wednesday, the comedienne and actress made public a photo of herself standing between a clarinetist and a saxophonist, each holding his instrument. Her caption read “A Jew with horns.” She later amended the…
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