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Fast Forward Virginia Lawyers Scrap Israel Meeting
The Virginia State Bar canceled its plans to hold a legal seminar in Jerusalem, citing “unacceptable discriminatory policies and practices pertaining to border security.” The Midyear Legal Seminar trip to Jerusalem had been scheduled for November, according to the state agency’s website. The agency is looking into other venues. In a letter sent late Friday…
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Fast Forward Jewish Doctor Janusz Korczak Died With 190 Children at Treblinka
A Polish court changed the date of death of martyred Polish-Jewish humanitarian, Janusz Korczak, to reflect his death in the Treblinka Nazi death camp. Lublin District Court on Friday confirmed that Korczak died on Aug. 7, 1942, and not May 9, 1946, as a post-war court had ruled. The date of death was changed by…
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Fast Forward Israeli Rescue Team Heading to Germanwings Crash Site
A delegation from Israel’s ZAKA emergency response organization will be flying to the Germanwings crash site in the French Alps. The eight volunteers from the ZAKA International Rescue Unit are scheduled to leave early Monday morning to assist in the search and recovery mission at the site of a crash that killed all 150 people…
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Fast Forward Many Jewish Leaders Sought Leniency for Met Council’s Rapfogel: Report
Many high-profile Jewish leaders called on New York’s attorney general to go easy on William Rapfogel, the former chief of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, who stole $9 million from the charity, according to a new report. The Rapfogel backers included 19 rabbis, several politicians, and some of the most prominent Jewish leaders…
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Fast Forward New Shmuley Boteach N.Y. Times Ad Urges Obama To Go Tough on Iran
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach published a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling on President Obama to refrain from appeasing Iran. The ad, published Saturday by Boteach’s World Values Network foundation, comes as the United States and other world powers work to achieve an interim deal on curbing Iran’s nuclear program before a March 31…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Pleads Not Guilty in Kansas JCC Killings
Frazier Glenn Miller has pleaded not guilty to charges that he murdered three people outside two Kansas City-area Jewish institutions. Miller, 74, entered the plea on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Johnson County, Kansas. He asked for a speedy trial, within 150 days, despite objections from his lawyers, Reuters reported. Judge Thomas Kelly…
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Fast Forward Russia’s Putin Pledges Support for Palestinian State
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country will support efforts to build a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. Putin pledged his support Saturday during a meeting of the Arab League in Sharm el-Sheik. “Palestinians have the right to establish an independent and habitable state with a capital in east Jerusalem,” Putin reportedly…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fans Pressure Hungarian Rock Band To Cancel Israel Concert
Members of a Hungarian punk rock band said they would ignore pleas and anti-Semitic comments from fans who want the band to cancel its upcoming concert in Israel. The bass player of the rock band Tankcsapdara, Lukacs, said his group, which is popular in far-right circles, will travel in June to play in Tel Aviv…
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