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Fast Forward Argentina Will Serve Kosher Food to Patients
The Argentine National Ministry of Health signed an agreement to serve kosher food to patients that request it. The agreement signed Wednesday by Minister of Health Juan Luis Manzur, and the Argentinian Jewish political umbrella DAIA creates the service that will be available on demand in every public hospital in the country. Beginning Thursday the…
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Fast Forward Sarkozy Calls for ‘No’ Vote on ‘Palestine’ Motion
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on his party to vote against a motion in the French Parliament to recognize a Palestinian state. “I will fight for the Palestinians to have their state. But unilateral recognition a few days after a deadly attack and when there is no peace process? No!” Sarkozy said Tuesday at…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Leaders Condemn Rabbi Steven Pruzansky for ‘Demonization’ of Arabs
A growing chorus of Orthodox leaders are speaking out against anti-Arab rhetoric following racially inflammtory statements by Steven Pruzansky, a prominent Teaneck, New Jersey rabbi. After last week’s terrorist attack at a Jerusalem synagogue, Pruzansky, the spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, wrote a blog post titled “Dealing with Savages” that said Arabs in the…
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Fast Forward Swedish Lawmakers Vote Down Bill Requiring Parents to Pay for Circumcision
Swedish lawmakers voted down a bill that would require parents to pay for non-medical circumcision of boys. The right-wing Sweden Democrats party brought the bill to a vote Tuesday at the regional council of Blekinge County in the kingdom’s south, Sveriges Radio reported. The party claimed that the practice should not be covered by the…
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Fast Forward Budapest Jews Split On Whistleblowing Leader With Colorful Past
An anti-corruption whistleblower elected to head the Budapest Jewish community has sparked a crisis among the highest officials of Hungarian Jewry at a time of heightened tensions with the government. The conflict, one of the fractious community’s most vociferous and colorful fights in years, erupted shortly after the election last month of David Schwezoff as…
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Fast Forward Polish Town Plans To Turn Jewish Cemetery Into Apartment Complex
A town in central Poland has prepared a development plan that will turn a Jewish cemetery into a residential complex with underground parking. The Jewish community of Warsaw and local activist Robert Augustyniak, who is not Jewish, have protested the plan. The City Council in Grodzisk Mazowiecki held a public discussion on the plan on…
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Fast Forward Jewish Construction Worker Killed in Terror Attack, Police Say
A Jewish construction worker who fell to his death in Petah Tikvah was killed in a terror attack, police say. Nathaniel Arami, 26, fell 11 stories from the side of a high-rise building where he was doing exterior work when both of his rappelling cables snapped in an incident on Sept. 16. His co-workers had…
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Fast Forward Shoes of Majdanek Prisoners Stolen From Concentration Camp’s Museum
Eight shoes belonging to prisoners at the former Majdanek concentration camp disappeared from an exhibit at the museum there. The museum on Monday notified police about the theft, which they say likely took place sometime between Nov. 18 and 20. A museum security guard noticed that the wire separating one of the areas holding the…
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