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Fast Forward Rabbi Barry Starr Scrambled To Repay Synagogue $458K in Hush Money
A Boston-area rabbi pleaded not guilty to charges that he stole from his temple to pay off a man who was blackmailing him for an alleged affair with a teenage male. Rabbi Barry Starr, 65, who resigned last year from Temple Israel in Sharon, Massachusetts, entered the plea Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court, the Boston…
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Fast Forward Giant Tile Swastika Mars San Francisco Football Field
A giant swastika was formed out of large white tiles on a San Francisco high school football field. Custodians at El Camino High in South San Francisco discovered the image Monday on the 40-year-old line, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. The swastika, which was believed to have been placed on the field after the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Board Inherits $75M in Deals From Doomed FEGS
Another Jewish social service agency has replaced FEGS as New York City’s largest social service group. The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, or JBFCS, is taking over $75 million worth of government and other contracts formerly filled by the Federation Employment Guidance Services, which shocked many in the nonprofit and Jewish community when…
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Fast Forward British National Students Union Votes 19-4 for BDS
The British National Union of Students voted to boycott Israeli companies and align with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. In a 19-4 vote with one abstention, the confederation of 600 student unions across the United Kingdom passed the pro-BDS proposal on Tuesday at a meeting of its National Executive Council. The motion “condemns Israeli…
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Fast Forward Black Bus Driver Sues Hasidic School Over Firing
An African-American bus driver for a haredi Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn filed a $2 million lawsuit against the school alleging discrimination. The lawsuit by Willis Baker against the U of Boro Park was filed recently in U.S. District Court in New York, according to Newsweek, which first reported the lawsuit on Tuesday. Baker was…
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Fast Forward India’s Leader Plans Visit to Israel
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will visit Israel — the first by a sitting Indian head of state. The visit was announced Sunday during a news conference with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, India’s media reported. No dates were announced. An Indian delegation is scheduled to visit in July, after which the prime minister’s visit…
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Fast Forward Tycoon Harold Grinspoon Vows To Give Away Half His Wealth
Harold Grinspoon, a real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist, signed the Giving Pledge to donate more than half his fortune to charitable causes. Grinspoon, whose nonprofit foundation funds a range of Jewish causes and organizations, joined the pledge started in 2010 by billionaires Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates. In 2011, he told The New…
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Fast Forward Rome Jewish Community Compiles Blacklist of Nazi Collaborators
The Jewish Community of Rome has compiled a blacklist with the names of people who sold or denounced Jews to German and Italian persecutors during World War II. The blacklist, which will be not published, covers the period from Oct. 16, 1943, when more than 1,000 Roman Jews were caught and deported to Nazi concentration…
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