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Fast Forward Argentina President Slammed for ‘Shylock’ Slur
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner recommended in a visit last week to an elementary school in the shanty town of Lugano that the students read “The Merchant of Venice,” with its anti-Semitic portrayal of a vengeful Jewish moneylender, to understand Argentina’s economic troubles. Following the visit, the president continued to tweet the recommendation, appearing to try…
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Fast Forward B’nai B’rith Canada Plans To Sell Headquarters
Cash-strapped B’nai Brith Canada is selling two of its landmark buildings in Toronto, including its national headquarters. The headquarters carries two mortgages totaling nearly $4 million, the Canadian Jewish News reported, and in 2012 the market value assessment was set at slightly more than $3 million. The difference leaves “open the question of how much…
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Not Sorry for ‘Sinner’ Slur Against Reform Jews
Israel’s religious services minister said that his remarks about Reform Jews were taken out of context, but he did not apologize for their nature. “Of course, all Jews, even though they sin, are Jews,” David Azoulay of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party said Wednesday in a speech on the floor of the Knesset. “At the…
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Fast Forward Jewish National Fund Owns $2B in Land
The Jewish National Fund, releasing its finances for the first time, revealed that it owned $2 billion of land as of last year. The JNF report comes amid recent criticism of the group’s quasigovernmental status that allows it to avoid state comptroller audits and official oversight, Haaretz reported. Yair Lapid, a Knesset member and former…
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Fast Forward Europe Jewish Leader Breaks Taboo by Meeting Marine Le Pen
The Ukraine-born oligarch who founded the European Jewish Parliament met with Marine Le Pen, a far-right leader in France who is shunned by many Jewish groups worldwide. Wednesday’s meeting between Vadim Rabinovich and Le Pen was in the framework of a roundtable discussion that Rabinovich held in Strasbourg, France, with 10 representatives of the Europe…
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Fast Forward Leaders Slam Israeli Minister for Dig at Reform Jews
Jewish groups in the United States slammed Israel’s religious services minister for saying that Reform Jews cannot be considered Jewish. “It would be one thing if Minister Azoulay’s ignorant and myopic views of Reform Judaism were nothing more than this his own semi-coherent ramblings,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said…
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Fast Forward Will Planned Romania Mosque Stoke Anti-Semitism?
A Turkish-funded plan to build a giant mosque in Bucharest could lead to radicalization and incitement to hate, Romania’s main watchdog on anti-Semitism warned. Maximillian Marco Katz, founding director of MCA Romania – The Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, issued the warning in a statement on Monday about reports in local media that Romania…
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Fast Forward Bulgarian Jews Protest Partnership With Far Right Leader
A Jewish group in Bulgaria protested the cooperation of other Jewish organizations with a nationalist lawmaker at the European Parliament. In a letter sent Monday by the Sofia lodge of the B’nai B’rith Jewish lobby group, lodge president Solomon Bali chided the Simon Wiesenthal Center over its cooperation with Angel Dzhambazki, who represents in Brussels…
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