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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi’s Wife Lashes Out at Australian Sex Abuse Victim
The wife of the Brooklyn-born chief rabbi of Chabad in Sydney apologized unreservedly for offending a child sex abuse victim on the eve of Yom Kippur. Pnina Feldman sent an email on Oct. 3 to Manny Waks, the only Jewish child sex abuse victim in Australia to have gone public. “I haven’t met a person…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Pollard ‘Release Date’ Scrubbed From U.S. Prisons Web Site
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons changed Jonathan Pollard’s release date on its website from “Nov. 15 2015” to “Life.” A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons was unable Monday to explain the change on the bureau’s “inmate locator,” which he confirmed occurred recently. Under sentencing guidelines in place in 1987 when Pollard, a former U.S….
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Fast Forward Ex-Pal Charged With Stabbing Philadelphia Cantor to Death
A former house guest was charged in the fatal stabbing of Ronald Fischman, an ordained cantor, in Fischman’s Philadelphia home. Jonathan Williams, 33, was arrested Thursday — two days after the stabbing — and charged with murder, burglary and other offenses, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Williams had been a house guest at Fischman’s northwest Philadelphia…
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Fast Forward South African Woolworth’s Chain Battles BDS Protests
Woolworths of South Africa said it may take the BDS lobby to court for threatening its staff and customers. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has held more than 40 protests at Woolworths stores throughout the country in recent weeks. “Our employees, of all faiths and cultures, are telling us that they are feeling increasingly…
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Fast Forward Maccabi Tel Aviv Routed by Cleveland Cavaliers in LeBron James Return
The NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers routed Maccabi Tel Aviv in an international exhibition game that pitted Cavs’ new coach David Blatt against his former team. Maccabi Tel Aviv, the 2014 Euroleague and Israel Super Basketball League champions lost Sunday’s game 107-80. The exhibition game had been scheduled long before Blatt signed on as Cavs’ coach in…
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Fast Forward Dutch Campsite Overrun by Supporters of Fugitive Breslov Hasidic Rabbi
A Dutch municipality ordered the eviction of 270 Jews from a camping site that is overcrowded with followers of the fugitive rabbi Eliezer Berland. The order was issued Friday by the island municipality of Texel in the country’s north in connection with the arrival of 300 Orthodox Jews from the Breslov Hassidic sect ahead of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Holds Bible Study Session With Parents of Slain Teens
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a Bible study session, attended by the parents of three Israeli teens kidnapped and killed this summer. Iris and Uri Yifrach, Rachel and Avi Fraenkel, and Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaar joined the Tanach Study Circle, a tradition started by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and which was renewed…
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Fast Forward Nicholas Sparks Sued Over ‘Anti-Semitic’ Slurs at Private School
Popular novelist Nicholas Sparks is being sued for racial and religious discrimination by the former headmaster of a private school he founded. Saul Hillel Benjamin, a practicing Quaker who is Jewish by background, has filed a federal lawsuit against Sparks, charging the bestselling author with making racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks while Benjamin headed The…
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