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Fast Forward Anne Frank Diary To Be Published Online in Copyright Challenge
In two separate challenges to the foundation that owns the rights to Anne Frank’s diary and is seeking to extend its copyright, a French lawmaker and a French scholar each plan to publish the text online in January. Isabelle Attard, a French Parliament member whose own grandparents died in the Holocaust, plans to publish the…
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Fast Forward Willie Rapfogel Moved to Halfway House in Manhattan
William Rapfogel, who was sentenced last year to 3 1/3 years to 10 years in prison for stealing $9 million from the Jewish nonprofit he headed, has been transferred to a minimum-security work release prison in Manhattan. Rapfogel, the longtime CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was transferred Tuesday from a medium-security…
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Fast Forward 83-Year-Old Rita Berkowitz Wins Miss Holocaust Survivor Pageant
A Romania-born woman who immigrated to Israel won the third annual Miss Holocaust Survivors Beauty Pageant in Haifa. Rita Berkowitz, 83, was chosen among the 16 European natives who participated in the contest on Tuesday. She came to Israel in 1951. Hairdressers and makeup artists primped and pampered the contestants before they took to the…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Pollard Denies Report Job Offer Was Revoked
Jonathan Pollard’s job offer still stands, his lawyers said, denying a report that it was rescinded. A spokesman for the attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, contacted JTA on Wednesday to deny a Jerusalem Post report this week that an unnamed “respected” investment firm officially revoked its offer of a research analyst’s position on Monday….
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Fast Forward White House Stands by ‘Big No’ on Israeli Settlements
The Obama administration is standing by its “big no” when it comes to supporting any new settlement building in Israel, a spokesman said. “I can be very clear that we’re not changing – again, we’re not changing – the decades-old U.S. policy regarding settlements,” Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said Tuesday when asked at…
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Fast Forward Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Pays Shiva Call on Parents of Ezra Schwartz
Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, paid a shiva visit to the family of slain American yeshiva student Ezra Schwartz. Kraft visited the family on Tuesday, a day after his National Football League team held a moment of silence for the teen prior to its “Monday Night Football” victory over the Buffalo Bills….
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Fast Forward Rabbinic Student Confronted in Boca Raton ‘Hate Crime’
Police in Boca Raton, Florida, are investigating a verbal and physical attack on a rabbinical student as a possible hate crime. The assailant, who was riding a mountain bike, shouted “Jews should go back to Auschwitz. Hitler was right,” at a 19-year-old man who reportedly is studying at the Boca Raton Chabad center, in the…
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Fast Forward North Carolina Day School Shut Amid Threats
A North Carolina Jewish day school closed for two days and the FBI is investigating in response to a threatening letter. B’nai Shalom Day School in Greensboro received a letter on Monday containing racial epithets and threats of violence, Fox 8 News reported. In a news release sent Tuesday, Marilyn Forman Chandler, executive director of…
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