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Fast Forward Shlomo Riskin Vows To Defy Rabbinate
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin said that, should Israel’s Chief Rabbinate dismiss him as chief rabbi of Efrat, he would not accept the decision. Speaking to JTA Tuesday, Riskin also said that the Chief Rabbinate does not have the support of the vast majority of Israelis for its conversion policy. Riskin urged the rabbinate to accept a…
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Fast Forward Polish Jews Ready for Dialog With New President
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community said Polish Jews are ready to cooperate with the country’s new president. Andrzej Duda won Sunday’s presidential elections in Poland. Duda, whose father-in-law Julian Kornhauser is a well-known Polish-Jewish poet, garnered 51 percent of the vote, according to official results certified on Sunday night. His opponent, former president Bronislaw Komorowski,…
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Fast Forward Croatia Pays Pensions to Nazi Collaborators
Echoing calls by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Croatian human rights group lambasted the government for paying pensions to former collaborators of Nazi Germany. The pension payments to Ustasa and Home Guard veterans “proves that modern Croatia is more a successor of the genocidal Independent State of Croatia than of the State Anti-fascist Council for…
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Fast Forward Shlomo Riskin Faces Uncertain Future in Rabbinate Feud
The Chief Rabbinate decided not to automatically extend the tenure of Shlomo Riskin as chief rabbi of Efrat. The Chief Rabbinate Council, led by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, on Monday decided to call Riskin to a meeting to discuss the extension of his tenure for another five years, Israeli media reported. Riskin has been…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Drama ‘Son of Saul’ Is Runner-Up at Cannes
The Holocaust drama “Son of Saul” received the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which centers on the Jewish prisoners who were forced to help the Nazis run the concentration camps, took the second-place Grand Prix award behind French filmmaker Jacques Audiard’s “Dheepan,” a drama about a group of Sri Lankan…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Attend Brussels Museum Rampage Memorial
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Brussels Jewish Museum a year after four people were killed in an attack allegedly carried out by a Muslim extremist. Sunday’s memorial, organized by the Coordination Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations, was attended by Belgian Prime minister Charles Michel, Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur and other national and…
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Fast Forward Polish Home Where Jews Hid Will Be Museum
A private entrepreneur plans to establish a museum in a house in southeastern Poland in which Jews hid from the Nazis. The house, located on Tatarska Street in Przemysl, hid 13 members of the Diamant family during the Holocaust. Beginning in 1942, the orphaned Catholic sisters Stefania and Helena Podgorski, ages 16 and 9, hid…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Graft Suit To Be Heard in U.S. Court
A lawsuit against billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, which could lead to the revocation of his gambling license, will be heard in the United States. A Las Vegas judge on Friday ruled that the lawsuit filed by Steven Jacobs, the former CEO of Adelson’s casinos in Chinese-administered Macau, will be heard in the U.S. and…
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