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Fast Forward Detainee in Duma Case Claims Torture During Interrogations
Right-wing activists and police clashed at the entrance to Jerusalem during a demonstration against the continued detention of Jewish youth for alleged involvement in the firebombing of a Palestinian home. The demonstration on Sunday night came a day after hundreds of protesters demonstrated in front of the home of Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen over…
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Fast Forward German Rabbi Breaks With Jewish Leadership Over ‘Mein Kampf’
A Berlin rabbi has broken with the head of the German Jewish community over whether a new edition of “Mein Kampf” belongs in German classrooms. “The risk is greater than the benefit,” Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal said Saturday night, according to a statement issued by his spokesman. Teichtal said there is a “risk that its introduction…
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Fast Forward 200 South African Professors Back Academic Boycott of Israel
More than 200 South African scholars pledged support for an academic boycott of Israel. In a declaration Tuesday, the scholars said they would not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions and would not participate in conferences organized or funded by them. They will, however, continue to work with Israeli colleagues individually, if they share…
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Fast Forward United Nations Recognizes Yom Kippur as Holiday
The United Nations will for the first time recognize Yom Kippur as an official holiday. Starting in 2016, no official meetings will take place on the Jewish day of atonement at the international body’s New York headquarters, and Jewish employees there will be able to miss work without using vacation hours, the Times of Israel…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Michael Wyschogrod, Theologian Who Escaped Nazis, Dies at 87
Michael Wyschogrod, an influential German-born Jewish philosophy professor and theologian has died at 87. Wyschogrod died on Thursday in Boston, H-Judaic, an email group for Jewish studies professors, announced. He taught philosophy at various colleges in the City University of New York system and served as head of the philosophy department at Baruch College. He…
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Demands Probe Into Claim Jewish Extremists Were Tortured
Israel’s Agriculture Minister has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to investigate claims that the Shin Bet security agency tortured the Jewish suspects in last summer’s lethal firebombing of a Palestinian home. Uri Ariel of the Jewish Home party on Friday urged Netanyahu to convene a committee meeting to address the claims, the Times of…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Park Named After Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas
Lithuania’s second-largest city named a park for Emmanuel Levinas, a late Jewish philosopher who was born there before moving to France. Levinas, whose writings greatly influenced Bernard-Henri Levy, another French Jewish thinker, was honored by the city council of Kaunas on Monday, the news site Jewish.ru reported. Born to a Jewish family in 1905, Levinas…
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Fast Forward Ex-Teacher at Toronto Jewish Day Schools Charged With Child Porn
A former Jewish day school teacher, administrator and private tutor in Toronto has been charged with possessing child pornography. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was allegedly seen viewing child porn on a public computer at a social services center and was arrested Wednesday, The Star reported. According to police, Schacter worked as an elementary teacher for…
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