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Fast Forward Arab Lawmaker Berates ‘Fascist’ Jews on Temple Mount
An Arab-Israeli lawmaker verbally confronted Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, as violence from the holy site spilled over in to the West Bank. Jamal Zahalka, a Knesset member from the Arab Joint List, on Tuesday berated Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, in an exchange captured on camera. “Crazy criminals, you’re all Kahanists, fascists,…
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Fast Forward Polish Synagogue Will Get $625K Facelift and New Life as Community Center
A former 19th century synagogue building in northern Poland will be renovated and used as a cultural center. The municipality of Koronowo signed a contract this week to renovate the dilapidated building, which it owns, for $ 625,000. The works are to last until May 2016. The city of Koronowo bought the synagogue building from…
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Fast Forward Top Russian Rabbi Says NGO Crackdown Worries Jews
A senior Russian rabbi condemned the government’s listing of a Jewish welfare group as a foreign agent, calling it part of a policy which is making Jews insecure of their future in Russia. Boruch Gorin, a Chabad rabbi who acts as a senior aide to Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and as editor-in-chief of the…
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Fast Forward Australia Jewish School Board Faces Probe for Letting ‘Sex Abuse’ Headmistress Flee
Melbourne police are considering opening a criminal investigation into board members of a Jewish day school who helped a former headmaster flee to Israel ahead of allegations of child sexual abuse. Malka Leifer, the former principal of Melbourne’s Adass Israel School fled Australia in 2008 ahead of allegations of sexual assault on eight girls at…
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Fast Forward Paris Calls School ‘Palestine’ Map a ‘Simple Error’
Responding to parents who complained about the distribution at public schools of a map which labeled Israel as “Palestine,” the City of Paris said it was the result of “a simple production error.” The city’s media department gave the explanation in a statement it published Friday about the distribution earlier this year to elementary school…
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Fast Forward Jeb Bush’s Jewish Team Heavy on George W. Advisers
Jeb Bush named a “Jewish leadership team” for his campaign that includes a number of Jews who were prominent in campaigning and working for his brother, the former President George W. Bush. Bush said that among his supporters since his days as Florida governor are “members of the Jewish community who have welcomed me into…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Names First Street for ‘Righteous Gentile’
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius unveiled the sign of the first street in Lithuania named for a non-Jew who risked her life to save Jews from the Holocaust. The Sept. 22 ceremony was at Simaites Street, where a heavily Jewish crowd of several dozen people convened to honor Ona Šimaitė, a Vilnius University librarian whose actions…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Denies Firing Employee for Having Premarital Sex
The oldest Jewish congregation in America said it “categorically denies” allegations by an employee that she was fired because she was pregnant at the time of her wedding. Congregation Shearith Israel, the New York synagogue popularly known as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and founded in 1654, in a news release Friday refuted the claims…
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