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Fast Forward Avi Weiss Quits Rabbinic Group in Flap Over School
Rabbi Avi Weiss is quitting the Rabbinical Council of America to protest its failure to admit as members rabbis whose sole ordination is from the rabbinical school he founded. The RCA, the main association of modern Orthodox rabbis in America, has yet to grant membership to rabbis who have been ordained only from Yeshivat Chovevei…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi’s Car Torched in Los Angeles
A car belonging to a Chabad rabbi in Los Angeles was set on fire, burning prayer books and tefillin inside. Security cameras at the Chabad of Mt. Oympus, located in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood, captured footage of two people vandalizing the car at about 2 a.m. June 24, the Jewish Journal reported. Nothing was stolen…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Hire Mexicans To Wear Tzitzit and Protest Gay Pride
An Orthodox Jewish group hired Mexican laborers to protest for them at the gay pride parade in New York. A reporter for The New York Times witnessed the group of Mexican men picketing for the Jewish Political Action Committee, a fringe Hasidic group based in Brooklyn, at Sunday’s parade in Manhattan. The hired protesters wore…
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Fast Forward Queen Elizabeth Visits Bergen-Belsen
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II met with survivors and liberators in a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. The visit to the camp in northern Germany was the concluding event in the queen’s three-day state visit to Germany that ended Friday. It was her first visit to a Nazi concentration camp. Elizabeth and her…
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Fast Forward Shlomo Riskin Wins New 5-Year Term as Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s term as chief rabbi of Efrat reportedly has been extended by the Council of the Chief Rabbinate for five more years. The Council’s hearing was held Monday. Riskin turned 75 last month, the age at which municipal rabbis are required to retire unless their tenure is extended five more years, as is…
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Fast Forward Blockade-Busting Boat Intercepted Off Gaza Coast
Israel’s Navy intercepted an activist ship in the waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Commandos from the Shayetet 13 naval special forces unit boarded the Marianne of Gothenburg ship and began sailing it to the Israeli port of Ashdod early on Monday morning. The takeover of the vessel and its approximately 20 passengers…
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Fast Forward Were Jewish Pupils Booted From Dutch Princesses’ Class?
The Dutch royal house said it would investigate claims that Jewish pupils were transferred in 1951 from their classroom because it was also the classroom of two princesses. The statement on the matter was released on Saturday from a Royal House spokesperson following a report published in the Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad, or NIW, a Dutch…
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Fast Forward Tragic Brooklyn Fire Mom Leaves Hospital
The mother of seven children who died in a March fire in their Brooklyn home was released from the hospital. Gayle Sassoon left the hospital on Friday and will continue to recover at the Brooklyn home of her mother-in-law, her husband, Gabriel, told the Kol Barama radio station on Sunday during an eight-minute interview. Sassoon…
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