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News Suburban Philadelphia High School Gets $8M Gift
The Kohelet Yeshiva High School in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, has received an $8.6 million gift. The gift announced last week from the Kohelet Foundation includes $7.5 million in unrestricted funds to be used for operational expenses at the school over the next five years, as well as $1.1 million to fund the high school’s new…
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Fast Forward Massachusetts Lawmakers Under Fire for Trip to Israel
The president of the Massachusetts state Senate and nine colleagues have come under fire from a pro-Palestinian coalition for their upcoming mission to Israel. On Monday, about 25 demonstrators from the the Boston Alliance for Water Justice protested the trip on the steps of the statehouse. Later they delivered a petition signed by 1,200 Massachusetts…
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Fast Forward JCC Counsellor Accused in Child Porn Case Freed on $10K Bond
A counselor at a Michigan Jewish day camp who is accused of distributing child pornography has been released on $10,000 bond as he awaits trial. Matthew Kuppe, 21, who was arrested in August, is not dangerous and deserves to be presumed innocent, a federal judge said Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported. In issuing the…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Haim Saban Backs Away From Muslim Scrutiny Support
Haim Saban, the Israeli-American billionaire who is a major backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton, said he did not mean to suggest that Muslims entering the United States from Syria should be subject to greater scrutiny. “I misspoke,” Saban, an entertainment mogul, told TheWrap, an entertainment news website in an interview on Nov. 19. “I believe…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Draft Law Delayed Until 2020
Israeli lawmakers approved an amendment that further postpones the mandatory military conscription of haredi Orthodox men and removes the penalties for not enlisting. The amendment to the Equal Service law originally passed in 2014 was approved on its second and third readings late Monday night by a vote of a 49 to 36. Lawmakers from…
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Fast Forward President Obama Calls Ezra Schwartz’s Parents To Offer Condolences
President Barack Obama called the parents of Ezra Schwartz, the 18 year-old American student murdered last week in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank, to offer his condolences. In the telephone call Monday, the president said that Schwartz’s Israel studies had strengthen United States-Israel ties. “The president offered his profound condolences and condemned…
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The Schmooze Rosanne Barr Blasts ‘Stay in France’ Call to Jews
Roseanne Barr took to Twitter to blast an Israeli writer’s call for Jews to stay in France. The comedian called Rogel Alpher a “skinhead” and urged him to “STFU,” meaning “shut the f*** up,” after he urged French Jews not to immigrate to Israel. On Sunday, hours earlier, he tweeted: “Jews of France, stay in…
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Fast Forward Israel Top Court Rules for Cremation of Transgender Activist’s Body
An Israeli transgender activist’s wish to be cremated will be honored despite efforts by her haredi Orthodox family to bury the activist according to traditional Jewish law. Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by the family of May Peleg to stop her cremation, Haaretz reported. “We must respect the will of the…
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