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Fast Forward Vienna Jews Accuse City of Turning Blind Eye to Anti-Semitism
The Jewish Community of Vienna accused the city’s prosecutor’s office of ignoring anti-Semitic incitement by pro-Palestinian activists. The incitement took the form of a caricature published last month on the Facebook page of organizers of the Vienna march of International Quds Day — an annual event held in cities across the world since it was…
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Fast Forward British Jews Seek To Block Leicester Ban on Settlement Products
A British Jewish group asked the country’s high court to review a municipality’s decision last year to support a boycott of products from the West Bank. Jonathan Neumann, director of Jewish Human Rights Watch — a group devoted to monitoring efforts to boycott Israel — earlier this month filed with the High Court of Justice…
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Fast Forward 15% of West Bank Settlers Are Americans
Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens. According to an Oxford University professor, approximately 60,000 American Jews live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday. “This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants…
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News Mahmoud Abbas Builds $13M Presidential Palace
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly having a $13-million luxurious presidential palace built near Ramallah despite his government facing a $2-billion deficit. According to the Times of Israel and several other Israeli news outlets, the project, which includes two helipads, is listed on the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction website devoted to…
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Fast Forward Prince Albert of Monaco Apologizes for Nazi Deportation of Jews
The prince of Monaco apologized for his country’s treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. In a speech Thursday at a Monaco cemetery, Prince Albert II asked Jews to forgive the tiny country on the French Riviera for its police rounding up Jews for deportation 73 years ago, The Associated Press reported. Many of those Jews…
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Fast Forward Detroit JCC Day Camp Ignored Warning About Porn Counsellor
Day camp supervisors at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit failed to notify senior management last summer after an employee voiced concerns about a camp counselor now charged with production, distribution and possession of child pornography. In a statement issued Thursday, the JCC said it discovered last Friday that camp supervisors had in 2014…
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Fast Forward Alan Gill To Step Down as Head of Joint Distribution Committee
Alan Gill, the CEO of the American Joint Distribution Committee, will step down in 2016. Gill, 63, was appointed CEO of the JDC, which is a partner of the Jewish Federations of North America and one of the world’s largest Jewish relief aid organizations, in 2012. He will remain an executive advieor to the organization…
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Fast Forward Princeton Will Install Campus Eruv
Princeton University will install an eruv around its campus and part of its surrounding town. Rev. Dr. Alison L. Boden, Princeton’s dean of religious life, and Rabbi Julie Roth, the school’s Jewish chaplain and Hillel director, announced in an email to the campus community on Tuesday that the eruv will be completed in two to…
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