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Fast Forward 5 Jewish Educators Cited as Young Pioneers
Five Jewish educators under age 36 have been selected for the Young Pioneers Award given by New York’s Jewish Education Project. The annual award, launched in 2012, is for young professionals working with children or teens in a Jewish educational setting in New York City, Westchester County or Long Island. The Jewish Education Project said…
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Fast Forward Gerardo Sofovich, Argentina TV Host, Dies
Gerardo Sofovich, an Argentine Jewish TV host and producer, writer for theater, cinema and TV, and businessman, has died Sofovich died Sunday of internal bleeding in Buenos Aires. He had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Knows by his nickname “El Ruso”, or the Russian, popular slang used by Jews in Argentina, Sofovich was declared…
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Fast Forward Swedish Cooking Show Yanked Over Jerusalem Reference
Israel’s ambassador to Sweden protested the pulling off the air of a cooking show because its presenter called Jerusalem the Jewish state’s “heart.” TV4, a commercial channel, stopped airing reruns of the Israel episode of celebrity chef Tina Nordstrom’s “Tina Visiting” last month following viewers’ complaints over her characterization of Jerusalem, the news website varldenidag.se…
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Fast Forward Israel Prize for Literature Scrapped for Year Amid Political Controversy
The prestigious Israel Prize for Literary Scholarship will not be awarded this year after controversy over the makeup of the judges’ panel. An attorney for the State Prosecutor’s Office told the Supreme Court during a hearing on Monday that the prize would not be awarded for 2014 following the intervention of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward U.S. Senator Ben Cardin Named Anti-Semitism Watchdog for OSCE
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin was named the special representative on anti-Semitism and intolerance for the 57-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly. Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the senior Democratic senator on the U.S. Helsinki Commission, was tapped on Monday for the newly created position,…
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Fast Forward Hillel’s Eric Fingerhut Withdraws From J Street Conference
Eric Fingerhut, the president of Hillel International, is withdrawing from speaking at J Street’s annual conference because of the presence of Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator. “My desire to attend the conference was based on my wish to speak at a student-only session directly with the students who will be in attendance, to thank those…
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Fast Forward Drone Flies Above Toulouse Rampage School
An unauthorized drone was spotted flying over the Jewish school in Toulouse that was attacked in 2012. Soldiers guarding the Ozar Hatorah school as part of a French government directive in the aftermath of the Jan. 9 attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris observed the drone on Sunday evening, French media reported. The drone…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Suggests ‘Beheading’ Israeli-Arabs Who Oppose Jewish State
An Arab-Israeli Knesset member called Israel’s foreign minister “Jewish Islamic State” after Avigdor Liberman said that Arab citizens who betray the country should be beheaded. Ahmed Tibi, the head of the Arab Movement for Change (Ta’al) party, on Monday responded to remarks made the previous day by Liberman in Herzliya, The Jerusalem Post reported. Tibi…
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