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Fast Forward Paris Fashion Maven Guilty of Discrimination — Against Other Jews
The French-Jewish owner of a chain of clothing stores was found guilty of discriminating against a Jewish job seeker. because he gave non-Jews, whom he could ask to work on Shabbat, preference over Jewish applicants. The ruling Wednesday by a judge from the Correctional Tribunal of Paris against Dan Cohen, co-founder of the Eleven Paris…
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Fast Forward French Chief Rabbi Warns Veterinarians on Kosher Slaughter Stand
France’s chief rabbi warned the country’s association of veterinarians of the “far-reaching” consequences of its recent opposition to the ritual slaughter of animals. Rabbi Haim Korsia expressed his concern regarding the position of France’s Order of Veterinarians in a letter he sent to the president of that association, Michel Baussier, the AFP news agency on…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Tell Israeli Mom: You’re Not Jewish — After 30 Years
An Israeli mother whom a rabbinical court declared to be not Jewish said in an appeal that the judges failed to satisfactorily explain their unusual decision. Sarit Azoulay’s appeal, which she filed this month with the High Rabbinical Court, concerns a 2012 ruling by the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court that nullified her mother’s 1983 conversion to…
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Fast Forward Brazil Resists Confirming Right Wing Settler Leader as Israel Envoy
Brazil is refusing to confirm Dani Dayan, who was named as Israeli ambassador to the country. Citing an unnamed senior Brazilian official, the Times of Israel reported Thursday that Brazil plans not to respond to Israel’s request for confirmation in hopes that the Jewish state will eventually name another ambassador. Dayan, a native of Argentina,…
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Fast Forward Spruced-Up 1915 Vladivostok Synagogue Reopens
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the synagogue of Vladivostok in Russia’s far east shortly after its reopening. Built in 1916, the synagogue, which is located 350 miles west of Russia’s maritime border with Japan and 9o miles from Russia’s land border with North Korea, was confiscated by communist authorities in 1932 and turned into…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jewish Refugee Village May Shelter Syrians
The Dutch owner of land that was once a village for Jews fleeing the Nazis offered to house there refugees from Syria and Iraq. Joep Karel, the owner of the area in Slootdorp, 35 miles north of Amsterdam, made the offer earlier this month to the government’s Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers,…
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Fast Forward Stabbed Israeli Teen Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at Western Wall
JERUSALEM — An Israeli teen who was stabbed by two Palestinian teens while riding his bike in Jerusalem celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Naor Ben-Ezra was joined at the celebration by members of the medical team who treated him at Hadassah Hospital after the October 12 attack in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood…
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Fast Forward Luxe Condos Planned for Iconic Streit’s Matzo Building on Lower East Side
Developers are a step closer to building condominiums on the historic former site of Streit’s Mazo factory in Manhattan. Manhattan-based Cogswell Realty filed tentative plans with the New York attorney general’s office to build 45 residential condo units, a commercial condo and 26 storage units on the property, The Real Deal reported. According to the…
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