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Fast Forward Historic Synagogue in Australian Outback Is Vandalized
A historic synagogue in the Australian outback mining city of Broken Hill was defaced with Nazi and Islamic symbols. The curator of the synagogue arrived at work Monday to prepare for a visit by tourists and found the front of the building had been vandalized. Margaret Price, the coordinator of the Synagogue of the Outback…
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Fast Forward Conservative Synagogues Spend More on Operations Than Outreach
Conservative Jewish synagogues are focused more on operations than youth engagement, and are more than twice as likely to have a cantor than an associate rabbi, a new survey of synagogue staffing found. About 50 percent of Conservative synagogues employ a youth director, but in only about 12 percent is that a full-time position, according…
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Fast Forward Joseph Silverstein, Renowned Violinist and Conductor, Dies at 83
Joseph Silverstein, a renowned violinist, concertmaster and conductor, has died. Silverman died Nov. 22 in Boston of complications from a heart attack. He was 83. Well known for his decades-long career with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he served as concertmaster for 22 years and as its assistant conductor from 1971 to 1984, Silverstein also…
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Fast Forward Women’s Studies Group Votes 653-to-86 for Israel Boycott
The National Women’s Studies Association voted to join the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The vote on the BDS referendum passed 653 to 86 at the organization’s annual conference earlier this month, the association announced last week. Slightly more than a third of the members voted. The recommendation to join the BDS…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Accuses Israel of Destroying Palestinian Agriculture
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of violating “international laws related to the environment” at the United Nations climate conference in Paris Thursday. But in the same speech, he also said that he was open to peace negotiations with Israel. “Our hand is still extended in peace to our neighbors,” he said. As for…
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Fast Forward Australian Lawmaker Blasts Mufti for Not Condemning Paris Terror
Australian lawmaker Josh Frydenberg said the grand mufti of Australia “failed in his leadership” by not condemning the Paris terrorist attacks. Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, the grand mufti, originally expressed sorrow over the deaths of at least 130 people in the wake of the attacks, but did not specifically condemn them. Media reports on the initial…
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Fast Forward Spain King Honors 4,302 New Sephardic Citizens
Spain’s king honored Sephardic Jews at a ceremony recognizing a new law that confers citizenship on the descendants of those banished during the Inquisition. “Dear Sephardim, thank you for your loyalty,” King Felipe VI told representatives of Sephardim from various countries at the royal palace on Monday, The Local-Spain news website reported. “Thank you for…
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Fast Forward ‘Chained’ Wife Tamar Epstein Remarries Without Orthodox Divorce
A former Maryland woman who was a central figure in the ongoing efforts to reform how the Orthodox Jewish community deals with recalcitrant husbands on Jewish divorces has remarried. Tamar Epstein married Adam Paul Fleischer on Sept. 24 in Memphis, Tennessee, the Washington Jewish Week first reported last week. Rabbi Nota Greenblatt, an eminent posek,…
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