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Fast Forward Association of American Universities Re-affirms Opposition to Israel Boycotts
Days after the American Historical Association decisively rejected a resolution denouncing Israel, the Washington D.C.-based Association of American Universities reaffirmed its opposition to boycotts against Israeli academic institutions. In a statement issued Thursday, the AAU said it was re-issuing its executive committee’s 2013 statement on boycotts because the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association…
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Fast Forward J Street Takes Aim at GOP Senators Who Opposed Iran Deal
A focus of liberal Jewish advocacy group J Street this year will be unseating Republican senators in Illinois and Wisconsin who led opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. “We see Mark Kirk and Ron Johnson as two of our biggest targets,” Ben Shnider, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s political director told JTA Friday…
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Books Holocaust Survivor Wins Literary Award for 1st Children’s Book
Aharon Appelfeld. BOSTON — A celebrated Israeli novelist is among the winners of this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children’s books. The Association of Jewish Libraries on Thursday announced the selection of Aharon Applefeld, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who has written about the genocide extensively. He won the award for older readers for…
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Fast Forward Rebbe Schneerson Death Certificate Is Auctioned — Top Bid Just $1,936
The death certificate of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the revered Chabad leader often referred to as “the Rebbe” — is on the auction block. The official certificate, issued Aug. 2, 1995, and mailed by the New York Department of Health to Schneerson’s niece in Israel, is being auctioned by Virtual Judaica on its website…
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Fast Forward Maryland School District Adds Muslim Holidays To Keep Jewish Ones
School authorities in a Maryland county that straddles the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore suburbs decided against removing Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah from the academic calendar. The Howard County Board of Education has given staff and pupils the two major Jewish holidays off since 1979. In recent years, the board has come under pressure to…
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Fast Forward Navy Grants Jewish Dentist Security Clearance After Israel Flap
The U.S. Navy reversed its decision to deny security clearance to a dentist because of his family in Israel. The Navy informed Gershon Pincus of its reversal on Jan. 7, the Albany Times Union reported. Pincus, 62, told the newspaper he was “overjoyed.” He commutes 400 miles one day a week from his New York…
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Fast Forward Shlomo Carlebach’s Guitar Goes on Block
Judaica and other items belonging to the influential late rabbi-musician Shlomo Carlebach will be auctioned next month. The Feb. 29 auction at J. Greenstein & Co.’s Auction House in Cedarhurst, New York, will also include Judaica owned by Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz. In all, the auction will feature 268 “rare and valuable…
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Fast Forward World Sailing ‘Regrets’ Malaysian Discrimination Against Jews
JERUSALEM — World Sailing said it “deeply regrets” that two Israeli youth sailors were unable to compete at last month’s world championships due to conditions imposed by Malaysia in order to grant them visas. The international sailing organization reaffirmed and defined more explicitly, the requirements of its “no discrimination” regulations at the end of an…
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